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A primer on the Iverson Movie Ranch illustrated with over 350 photographs, movie stills, lobby cards, and screenshots capturing the Iverson Ranch as it looks today and as it appeared during half a century of movie-making between 1912 and the late 1960s.
In the San Fernando Valley's backyard, there remains a fantasyland that was forever made famous by Hollywood.
A place where Superman once captured the evil Luthor in his hidden Stoney Point cave, where Batman wrestled a criminal on top of a speeding locomotive, where Tarzan the Ape Man found an ancient elephant graveyard, and where John Wayne's fighting Seabees pushed a Japanese tank off the same cliff that Nyoka used to escape Vultura's killer ape.
The place is Boulder Pass. It was the jungles of India and Africa, the sands of the Sahara, the Khyber Pass between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the plains of Montana, and the High Sierras and the Rocky Mountains all rolled into one. It was the scene of stagecoach holdups, posses chasing outlaws on owlhoot (outlaw) trails, Indians attacking white settlers in remote cabins, flying rocket men, and unearthly spaceship landings. It was a land for make-believe. It could be anything a Hollywood director fancied.
By now you've guessed that Boulder Pass is a fictitious name borrowed from an old B-Western movie. The real place is the Santa Susana Pass in Chatsworth, California. For nearly three-quarters of a century, the Santa Susana Pass was home to the granddaddy of all movie location ranches--the Iverson Ranch. It was also the home of several other filming locations, including the Brandeis Ranch, Corriganville, Burro Flats, Bell Moving Picture Ranch, Chatsworth Lake, Roy Rogers' Double R Bar Ranch, Spahn Ranch, Southern Pacific Railroad's tunnels, and the Chatsworth train depot.
My primary focus is the Iverson Movie Ranch. Its unique rock formations attracted Hollywood in the first place. Some of those craggy rocks are as well known as the six-gun heroes that galloped their horses on the chase roads winding through the Iverson Ranch canyons.
ISBN: 978-0-615-21522-8
Publisher: ECHO Press
Copyright: 2010 ECHO Press (Standard Copyright License)
Language: English
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2010
Page Count: 362 pages
Size: 10 3/4" x 8 3/8" Landscape
Binding: Perfect Bound
Interior Color: Black And White
Keywords: Performing Arts, Film & Video - General, History and criticism, Motion picture locations, United States, West (U.S.), Western films, Travel, Technology & Industrial Art, General
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A photographic history of "B" Western movie location ranches in Chatsworth, California.
More than 350 photos of scenes lensed in the Santa Susana Mountains.
Come ride with author Jerry England as he takes you on a photographic tour of famous Chatsworth area movie ranches.
Witness Tom Mix, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, John Wayne, Allan Lane, Bill Elliott, Charles Starrett, the Lone Ranger, Buster Crabbe, Tim McCoy, Lash LaRue, and many other six-gun heroes as they ride the pony trails of the gone, but not forgotten Iverson Movie Location Ranch, Brandeis Movie Ranch, Bell Moving Picture Ranch, Corriganville Movie Ranch, Spahn Ranch, and Burro Flats.
View action scenes filmed at Chatsworth's reservoir, train depot, and railroad tunnels. Then follow your favorite Hollywood cowboy through the western streets, outlaw shacks, stagecoach stops, and ranch houses
ISBN: 978-0-615-21499-3
Publisher: ECHO Press
Copyright: 2008 ECHO Press (Standard Copyright License)
Language: English
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2008
Page Count: 151 pages
Size: U.S. Letter
Binding: Perfect Bound
Interior Color: Black And White
Keywords: Performing Arts, Film & Video - General, History and criticism, Motion picture locations, United States, West (U.S.), Western films, Travel, Technology & Industrial Art, General
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