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Banquo
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Amerricka
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Apr 28, 2014 - 11:05am PT
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Doug-
The photo of the old movie set was taken when you and I went to the Palisades with our kids and Kumar. That's my son in the photo. You told us how to find it. I've tried to figure out what movie, or more likely movies, used it but have never turned anything up. Most of the pre 1926 movies are probably lost. It seems like it would have to have been a fairly large budget movie to have built such a set. Perhaps the people at the Lone Pine movie museum could help. There is no doubt that it was a movie set because it is a false front and there was no structure to the back side.
Dan
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Doug Robinson
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Apr 28, 2014 - 01:20pm PT
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Hi Dan,
Yeah, I remember you going up to visit the movie set on that trip. We had a great time! I'll be checking with the Lone Pine film office in coming weeks.
Could be good climbing up there soon. We walked up the South Fork to snow line last week, which was up under the "Bronze Bell." Just sayin'...
Cheers,
Doug
And WTF -- Glad you like the aging factoids. I'm hoping to tie up some of these historical loose ends for the Alpinist article so at least the early history of the place is fairly well covered.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Apr 28, 2014 - 05:55pm PT
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This marvelous thread is well worth a bump. Thanks for the photo and for those who filled in some of the history.
Right after I took the Bar Exam in 1979, I headed to the East Side. Eating breakfast at Glacier Lodge, with the overwhelming view of Clyde Peak in the background, remains one of my fondest memories of what a summer vacation should contain.
John
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Banquo
climber
Amerricka
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Apr 28, 2014 - 06:20pm PT
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Doug-
I've retired from teaching so although I still have to consult and make money, I have a lot more time than I used to. Always looking for things to do.
Dan
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Doug Robinson
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Apr 28, 2014 - 06:29pm PT
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This just in from the Lone Pine Film History Museum:
Erich von Stroheim, The Wedding March (1928, silent)
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Apr 29, 2014 - 12:24am PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]
a quick look at the film doesn't seem to reveal any of the scenery...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_von_Stroheim
a more interesting story:
"Probably Stroheim's best remembered work as a director is Greed, a detailed filming of the novel McTeague by Frank Norris. He originally started it as a project with Samuel Goldwyn's Goldwyn Pictures. Stroheim had long wanted to do a film version of the book. He originally intended it to be a highly detailed reproduction of the original, shot mostly at the locations described in the book in San Francisco and Death Valley. The original print ran for an astonishing 10 hours. Knowing this version was far too long, Stroheim cut out almost half the footage, reducing it to a six-hour version to be shown over two nights. It was still deemed too long, so Stroheim and director Rex Ingram edited it into a four-hour version that could be shown in two parts.
However, in the midst of filming, Goldwyn was bought by Marcus Loew and merged into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. After rejecting Stroheim's attempts to cut it to less than three hours, MGM removed Greed from his control and gave it to head scriptwriter June Mathis, with orders to cut it down to a manageable length.[5] Mathis gave the print to a routine cutter, who reduced it to 2.5 hours.[6] In what is considered one of the greatest losses in cinema history, a janitor destroyed the cut footage.
The shortened release version was a box-office failure, and was angrily disowned by Stroheim. In particular, he blamed Mathis for destroying his pet project, since she was credited as a writer due to contractual obligations.[7] However, Mathis had worked with Stroheim before and had long admired him, so it is not likely she would have indiscriminately butchered his film.[8] The film was partially reconstructed in 1999 by Producer Rick Schmidlin, using the existing footage mixed with surviving still photographs, but Greed has passed into cinema lore as a lost masterpiece.
Stroheim followed with a commercial project, The Merry Widow (his most commercially successful film) and the more personal The Wedding March and the now-lost The Honeymoon.
Stroheim's unwillingness or inability to modify his artistic principles for the commercial cinema, his extreme attention to detail, his insistence on near-total artistic freedom and the resulting costs of his films led to fights with the studios. As time went on he received fewer directing opportunities.
In 1929, Stroheim was dismissed as the director of the film Queen Kelly after disagreements with star Gloria Swanson and producer and financier Joseph P. Kennedy over the mounting costs of the film and Stroheim's introduction of indecent subject matter into the film's scenario."
so maybe the footage was shot but the film didn't survive
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wedding_March_(1928_film);
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Fuzzywuzzy
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suspendedhappynation
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Apr 29, 2014 - 12:38am PT
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Doug
We used to "gather" firewood by throwing logs off the wall behind the PSOM camp. Those logs were from the movie set of "The Guns of Kyber Pass" ... right?
tc
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BBA
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OF
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Apr 29, 2014 - 11:57am PT
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Our family was always out on the east side of the Sierra. I graduated HS in '58, spent some time in the Olympics, then on return we went to the Glacier. a couple of photos for the thread...
You can see a couple of regular cabins on the right and tent cabins on the left. We backpacked in and just had a piece of pie or something at the Lodge.
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Banquo
climber
Amerricka
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Apr 29, 2014 - 12:36pm PT
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BBA-
Very cool to see the old photos. You can still see where the buildings were since some concrete slabs have survived.
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Apr 29, 2014 - 01:20pm PT
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That's a fascinating set of photos. The Palisade Glacier and crevasses look much larger than I've seen up there, even in the 70's.
Doug, do you have any perspectives on the relative size of the glacier and crevasses compared to recent history?
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yosemite4
Mountain climber
Bishop
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Here is a photo of John Fischer taken on a hike in 2007.
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Great thread. Everyone TFPU.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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good thread bump.
At the risk of outing myself as someone that has never been into the Palisade region, I still want to get in there.
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Okay, where is the u-notch?
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crankster
Trad climber
No. Tahoe
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Very cool. Nice ski line on the right in OP pic.
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tom woods
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Cool photo of the lodge from the outside. I had not seen that before.
Funny this thread comes up again. On Friday I was talking with an old friend of mine and we placed both of these places on the maps and checked out with google earth.
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