Corner Of Stone And Congress Collage Tucson Arizona C.1905-2009 #1
by David Lee Guss
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Corner Of Stone And Congress Collage Tucson Arizona C.1905-2009 #1
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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This c.1905 panoramic image of the Stone Avenue/W. Congress Street intersection in downtown Tucson, Arizona, was taken some four years before film pioneer Allan Dwan (1885-1981) began his movie career in Tucson, as "a sort of unit manager."
In Peter Bogdanovich's riveting 1997 "Who the Devil Made It," Dwan recounts that, in the summer of 1909, Congress was "very 'Old West,' with lots of saloons and cowboys and things."
Two years before Marion Michael Morrison (later called John Wayne) was born at home delivered by a female family friend doctor on May 26, 1907 in Winterset, Iowa, a town of muddy, unpaved streets navigated by horses and buggies.
In December of 1903 Thomas Alva Edison released Edwin S. Porter's most celebrated film, the Western "The Great Train Robbery."
"Robbery," also photographed and directed by Porter without credit, is one of the first narrative, or story films, of significant length employing "cross-cutting, double exposure composite editing, camera movement and on location shooting."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc7wWOmEGGY
{Note: Henry Hathaway (1898-1985) began his film career as a child actor in Allan Dwan directed Western films. Hathaway directed Duke in his first color film "The Shepard of the Hills" (1941), "Legend of the Lost" (1957), "North to Alaska" (1960), "Circus World" (1964), "The Sons of Katie Elder" (1965) and "True Grit" (1969.)}
"To be a good director you've got to be a bastard. I'm a bastard and I know it."
"There's lots of nice guys walking around Hollywood but they're not eating." - Henry Hathaway
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