Poppies beside the road pics from the Hite's Cove day...paddled out to Creek's End...after a visit to the Post Office...today...quiet walk...sunny blue warm....what looks like a roadbed in the Merced River Canyon on the far bank, is the old Train roadbed...fun to imagine it chugging up the canyon...think I posted up once a model railroad site of the Train...what I'd like to find is an Old Tom Mix silent movie with clips...Mix filmed in the canyon and Valley...learned that with the Zoo Visit post up!...tried to find that...try again...brb....well...this site I found before...it has it that Mix began filming in March, 1920...seems certain the Poppies were about!!...brb...oh...here, Blockbuster lists 'Tumbling River', which has footage of the Merced...one actress drowned during the filming!...1927...brb...
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The tragic drowning death of stunt woman Ethel Hall marred the filming of this otherwise below average Tom Mix western. The plot is unremarkable to say the least; Mix heroically saves rancher's daughter Dorothy Dwan from both a raging river and a gang of cattle rustlers led by popular western villain Wallace McDonald. The raging water scenes were filmed on California's Merced River. The 22-year-old Ethel Hall, doubling leading lady Dorothy Dwan, was apparently knocked unconscious when her head hit a rock. Mix's stunt co-coordinator Rocky Cline attempted to save her, but she drowned in the rapids. All in all, Tumbling River was not one of Mix's happier occasions.
from NY Times review...
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oh!!
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There are some hurdles for the modern viewer to overcome in watching The Dragon Painter. Much of the film was shot in Yosemite, whose monumental and fantastic scenery is meant to stand in for the idealized Japanese style of landscape painting — and it is indeed an amazing landscape. But it is obviously not Japan any more than if the film had been shot in front of the Statue of Liberty. And the acting in silent films often seems too exaggerated to modern viewers. Hayakawa and the others do conform to that norm. Hayakawa is precise in his manic portrayal of Tatsu. His version of Japanese intensity would have caused a stir in 1914, although anyone who has seen something like Seven Samurai would not think it unusual. Never the less, The Dragon Painter is very forward looking and the wonder of it is that this film is almost 100 years old.
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here on amazon...
I'll review it after it comes!!
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