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A INTRODUCTION TO LONE PINE FILM HISTORY PART I

A living museum -- that's what visitors call our Alabama Hills because to visit them is to revisit your past. You see those rocks and you remember the movies of a lifetime. It was here that all the great British-Army-in-India movies were made. This is where the "Lone Ranger" ambush was first filmed, this is where Roy Rogers first found Trigger and Tom Mix found Tony, Hollywood-style. Errol Flynn lead a patrol right over there, the cops More->


A INTRODUCTION TO LONE PINE FILM HISTORY PART II

In October of 1990, the first Lone Pine Film Festival was held to celebrate all this movie history. Roy Rogers returned to Lone Pine to dedicate a permanent historical marker at Movie road. More->


A INTRODUCTION TO LONE PINE FILM HISTORY PART III

The Alabma Hills, that wonderland of rounded hills and twisted formations lying between Lone Pine and the mountains.

 Sprawled on either side of the road up to Whitney Portal (where the hike up Mount Whitney begins), this area with the out-of-state name has been a magnet for years not only for movie-makers More->