![]() ![]() This particular location is, to my knowledge, the most remote filming site anywhere in the park, and difficult to access by foot. "Inferno" from 20th Century Fox in Technicolor and 3D, was filmed partially in the Red Rooster section of RRC, on a high outcropping. Locals out there insist that this film has the only known screen-time for the Red Rock Tavern and Wagon Wheel Cafe which lie in ruins just outside the southern end of the park. It's a very brief image though.Īnother one that is a bit hard for me to confirm. One of the old rangers is convinced that this film uses rear-projection plates of RRC, and he managed to convince me. I get alot of grief by including this one. With rear-projection plates of the Red Cliffs originally made for Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves (1944). RRC appears only in rear-projected footage taken from Highway 6, on what is now Abbott Drive between Ricardo Campground and Hagen Canyon. Second unit scenes of Hagen Canyon and the Red Cliffs directed by Ray Taylor. Directed by action-specialist and frequent Red Rock director Ray Taylor.Ī single second unit shot and you have to look quickly. It's all second unit stuff, but the footage is very lively and covers a large area. Seen only in stock shots from the original The Mummy (1933). Some rangers believe that this film includes the only motion picture images of Saltdale, a long-gone settlement just outside the southeast end of the park. RRC appears only in rear-projected footage. The first full-color (using 'three strip' Technicolor technology) film made there. There's no documentation on this Republic film, but the RRC scenes are quite possibly a series of stock shots clipped from an older, and as yet unidentified, film. RRC appears via the Red Cliffs feature only on the main title card RRC's first known color film shot in the 'experimental' two-color Technicolor process. Kyne's novel Three Godfathers shot at RRC. ![]() This is the first of three versions of Peter B. This was of course a common practice for the 'distantĪ partial list of Canyon films (* indicates that one or more photographs from that Might make more sense than a crew actually coming out on site with all the expenseĪnd time that that would require. On financial as well as artistic reasons, so that use of a 'stock' shot', for example, Distinctions such as these are made to suggest how RRC was employed as bothĪ major and a minor player in different films. Main unit this typically means that the principal actors were not involved in these The notation 'second-unit' indicates that an alternate film crew (withĭifferent directors and cameramen) went to make these scenes independent from the That was taken earlier and placed, by any number of means, to appear behind the A 'rear-projection scene' is one that employs a background shot or 'plate' Stock library a library that might be from the studio vaults or from an independent Was presented within any particular film. ![]() Or 'rear-projection shot' or 'second unit shot' to delineate how Red Rock Canyon On the list that follows, many of the titles include notations such as 'stock shot' (1933 version), The Egyptian, Sword of Ali Baba, Son of Sinbad, and Ali Baba RRC alsoįigured in a number of Arabian-themed motion pictures including The Mummy Which is showcased in Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, Rocketship Landscapes also found a home out there (For some of the locations on these sci-fiįilms, be sure to look for the 'Land of the Dead' gulch feature of Hagen Canyon Mojave, but some science fiction films which required extraordinary and other-worldly Westerns most often profited by their forays out into the Minor production companies of that period, made use of the astounding Mojave Desert All of the five major studios of Hollywood's Golden Age, as well as many of the ![]()
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