Home Movies (1949)

Brand new process brings you ^8 MM fUU COLOR MOVIE FILM "Colorado Territory" • Continued from Page 461 execution of a bold train robbery. The Denver & Rio Grande Western and one of its stations are named and shown in the film, and an early diamond-stacked locomotive and four cars were put into operating order and leased for five days use in filming the holdup sequences. Dozens of townspeople were engaged as atmosphere players and were fully costumed so they could be photographed as groups at the railroad stations and as passengers on the train. For five days their principal" job was sitting in the plush-upholstered old coaches as the various steps of the robbery were recorded on film. Fifteen Indians also were employed. One of these, a non-English-speaking Navajo named Grey Eyes, made such good use of his acting opportunities that he was made a permanent member of the cast. He was given the role of a script character called "Zuni" and was taken to Gallup and thence back to the studio in Burbank. By special permission of the Federal Communications Commission, walkietalkie equipment was used to coordinate the action of the train with mounted members of the bandit gang and the marshal's posse. Accomplished without injury were several spectacular stunts including transfers to the speeding train by galloping horsemen. Returning to Gallup for two additional weeks, the "Colorado Territory" company worked most of the time in the spectacular red rock canyons where Joel McCrea and Virginia Mayo eventually are cornered by their pursuers. Here Virginia Mayo surprised even Di Publish Your Ideas Have you a favorite home-made movie accessory? Or a kink, gadget, photo-tip, or short-cut? To share it with fellow filmers, write it up with photos, diagrams or drawings to clearly illustrate each idea. Rate for items accepted is SI to S10, depending on originality and illustrations. Include postage if you wish unused items returned. Address the Workshop Editor, Home Movies, 3923 West Sixth St., Los Angeles 5, Calif. Photographic Catalog Listing a large variety of photographic equipment as well as a glossary of photographic terms and facts, a 44page "1949 Guide to Photographic Fun" may be had, on request, from Pragan Camera Store, 215 West 14th St., N. Y. 11, N. Y. rector Raoul Walsh with her expert horsemanship. In Gallup, the eight-man posse of picture-skilled riders brought from the studio was augmented by 10 local horsemen and additional Indians. They took part in chase scenes which drove the wounded McCrea into the Canyon of Death— a script name adopted for the canyon by the Gallup Chamber of Commerce. An attempted stagecoach robbery also was filmed in open country near Gallup, with McCrea driving off the bandits and taking the six-horse stage on to the Wells Fargo station. In addition to thrilling sequences planned and filmed for the picture, the production yielded a number of exciting and unscheduled incidents. In the Canyon of Death, McCrea was seriously endangered by a rock slide which apparently was started by reverberations from the posse's guns. At the rim of the same canyon one evening, while scouting camera positions for the next day's work, Sid Hickox narrowly escaped being pushed over the edge when his horse, from which he had dismounted, was spooked by an owl. Working barelegged and in open sandals, Virginia Mayo was in almost continuous danger from rattlesnakes and scorpions. Eight rattlers were killed in various areas where the cameras were being set up. With dozens of outdoor settings selected on location, an unusual amount of special construction still remained to be supervised by Ted Smith, the picture's art director. In New Mexico, an Indian council house was extensively remodeled to serve as the Winslow ranch house. Twenty miles to the east, on a wide plateau, was found a long, rambling adobe structure which served with complete realism as a stagecoach station. Years ago, when the main road passed it, the building had served that very purpose. It also was a post office and Indian trading post. It now is the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Newcomb, who for 25 years lived and traded on the Navajo reservation. A guest at the colorful ranch house for the past 10 years is the elderly author, Gouverneur Morris. Nowhere was there to be found an isolated and crumbling old Spanish village such as the picture's Todos Santos, where part of the action takes place. So the ancient adobe town was built on the Warner Bros, ranch at Calabasas, and there the company went to work on its return from New Mexico. A church, an inn and an Indian council chamber called a kiva were the principal buildings erected, and their interiors were constructed on sound stages at the studio. 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