The First Movie Studio in Texas: Gaston Méliès's Star Film Ranch - Hardcover
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The First Movie Studio in Texas: Gaston Méliès's Star Film Ranch
The story of the Star Film Ranch and its pioneering crew, who created the first "authentic" Westerns filmed in Texas.
In 1910, the Méliès Star Film Company of Manhattan set up a moving-picture studio outside San Antonio, the first in Texas. Determined to make the most authentic Westerns possible, the company filmed there for a little over a year. In that brief time, it created more than seventy...
Kathryn Fuller-Seeley is the William P. Hobby Centennial Professor of Communication in the Radio-Television-Film Department at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy and many other works.
Frank Thompson is a film historian, writer, and author of nearly fifty books, including The Compleat Beau Geste.
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