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world, cinematicallv speaking, is an old Spanish ranch fifty miles north of Hollywood. Covering thousands of acres, it provides an incredible number of different vistas. A tangled acreage of hundred-year old oak trees is appropriated named ''Sherwood Forest" after the famous English forest it resembles. The Three Musketeers, with Douglas Fairbanks, was one of the first of the hundreds of pictures to take advantage of its special values.
Not far away is a lake, flanked on one side by other forest land. It resembles lakes in the heart of Africa and, because of this, lions have roamed its shores; hippopotami and elephants have swum in its waters. Still another section of the ranch offers a lovely little stream meandering through gentle, rolling hills. Like southern England in everv respect, it has been the setting for many British fox hunts.
Hills are hills the world over and therefore one hilly ranch with a few trees mav serve for several radically different locations. With a dozen straggling buildings
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erected in its valley, one ranch was an exact reproduction of the cattle town of Lincoln, New Mexico, scene of the battle between two factions which was a highlight in the tumultuous cinematic career of the bad man, "Billy, the Kid."
Then for two vears the same ranch became actually a segment of the Hopei province in China. Chinese farmers by the score, provided with primitive water wheels brought from China and working onlv with
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Chinese tools, cultivated eight hundred acres to a terraced height of three hundred feet.
It was mentioned that a certain beach can no longer
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