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Post by Greg C. on May 13, 2005 12:02:29 GMT -5
wish i could go
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Post by neferetus on May 16, 2005 17:50:14 GMT -5
An able projectionist, Mo has even offered/threatened to run the film his own self!
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Post by Bromhead24 on May 16, 2005 18:26:52 GMT -5
Nice photo's Ned, I must say that the structures look like they are in pretty good shape however, you said that it's in a desperate need of repair.
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Post by neferetus on May 16, 2005 18:34:10 GMT -5
Nice photo's Ned, I must say that the structures look like they are in pretty good shape however, you said that it's in a desperate need of repair. For the long haul. As it is, for safety's sake, visitors are strongly advised not to walk, or climb on rooves.
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Post by Bromhead24 on May 20, 2005 22:01:42 GMT -5
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Post by Greg C. on May 21, 2005 7:30:47 GMT -5
hdo you take screen shots?
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Post by Bromhead24 on May 21, 2005 13:08:22 GMT -5
I have a program called "Intervideo WINDVD" that lets you take screen shots. I just found the software that was installed on my computer when i bought it. It's pretty cool.
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Post by neferetus on Sept 20, 2005 9:44:00 GMT -5
Amazing screen shots! Here's a photo of the Waynamo chapel interior in 1980. The room with the door is the powder magazine, where Wayne threw in the torch.
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Post by Bromhead24 on Dec 8, 2005 14:16:40 GMT -5
It's a shame that Jw blew up the church. Just think what it would look like today if he kept it whole.
Would it still be there?
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Post by Bromhead24 on Dec 19, 2005 19:43:30 GMT -5
Heres a photo of my wife and daughter at Alamo Village back in 1990 before the "Pink Hump"
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Post by neferetus on Jun 22, 2006 11:20:24 GMT -5
THE 13TH DAY OF GLORY...
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Post by neferetus on Mar 5, 2007 13:44:17 GMT -5
While at Walmart yesterday, I saw something new on DVD. It's a double feature on one DVD of THE WAYNAMO and THE MAGNIFACENT SEVEN. The price, $9.44. Not bad for two greart movies. It would make for a fine evening's viewing pleasure. Yes?
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RebAl
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Post by RebAl on Mar 30, 2007 2:49:09 GMT -5
Yes, I agree both excellent movies I have the whole set of Magnificent Seven films.
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Post by neferetus on Apr 19, 2007 14:29:45 GMT -5
Jack Williams, another stunt man from THE ALAMO (1960) has just passed away.
Says John Farkis, author of ALAMO VILLAGE: So Sad. I had the chance to speak with Jack about one month ago; what an entertaining, fiesty guy. Very opinionated. He invited me out to his place and, in fact, I was planning to get out there later this year. No wonder he didn't respond when I asked if he would attend the Woodlawn event. Such a shame.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family.
Ted Cole provided the following article:
Jack Williams, movie horseman and stunt double By Dennis McLellan Los Angeles Times 04/18/2007
HOLLYWOOD - Jack Williams, a top Hollywood stuntman who got his first taste of stunt work on a horse at age 4 - he was tossed from one rider to another in the 1926 silent film "The Flaming Forest" - and later worked his way through college riding horses and doing stunts in films such as "Gone With the Wind" and "Dodge City," has died. He was 85.
Mr. Williams, a charter member of the Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures and an inductee of the Hollywood Stuntmen's Hall of Fame, died of heart failure Tuesday at a Sylmar hospital, said his stepson, Robert Vairo.
Beginning with "The Charge of the Light Brigade" in 1936, Mr. Williams performed stunts in dozens of films over six decades, including "Santa Fe Trail, "They Died With Their Boots On," "Fort Apache," "Red River," "3 Godfathers," "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," "Rio Bravo," "Spartacus," "El Cid," "The Alamo," "The Magnificent Seven," "Cat Ballou" and "The Wild Bunch."
He also worked steadily doing stunts on dozens of TV series, such as "Maverick," "Laramie" and "The High Chaparral," and playing small parts in numerous films and TV shows.
During his heyday, Mr. Williams was best known for having trained his horse to fall dramatically on cue at a given spot as if it had taken a bullet or arrow.
"He was the top falling-horse stuntman in the business," said stuntman Bob Hoy, who first worked with Mr. Williams in 1950. "He had a great horse called Coco, and they were inseparable."
Said stuntman Joe Canutt: "You can get great falls a lot of times out of horses, but when you're attacking the Alamo, for example, and you've got bombs and cannons going off ... some of them don't work at all. That mare (Coco) consistently got spectacular falls."
Coco, who died at 33, is buried near Mr. Williams' adobe-style home on his 300-acre ranch in Agua Dulce, not far from Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park, a location for countless movie and TV Westerns.
Beyond doing the falling-horse stunt, Hoy said, "Jack drove stagecoaches, he wrecked wagons, he could transfer from the horse to the train - he could do anything pertaining to horse work."
And, Hoy recalled, "in all the years I knew him, he never said, `Ouch,' on any of the stunts he did. That's saying he hit the ground, but he never complained."
Mr. Williams was born April 15, 1921, in Montana and moved with his family to Southern California a few years later. His mother, Paris, was a world-champion trick rider on the rodeo circuit, and both she and Mr. Williams' cowboy father, George, found work doing stunts in movies.
His father taught him the horse-falling stunt when Mr. Williams was a teenager.
"There was probably no feat I could have imagined that was as fascinating as that. So I took the technique and perfected it," Mr. Williams, who worked on a number of movies with his father, recalled in a 2005 interview with the Santa Clarita Valley newspaper the Signal.
Mr. Williams, who played polo as a student at the University of Southern California, served in the Coast Guard during World War II and was a navigator on a tank-landing ship in the invasion of Okinawa.
His last credit as a stuntman was "Wild Wild West" in 1999, the same year he received a Golden Boot Award from the Motion Picture & Television Fund for his work in Westerns.
In addition to his stepson, Mr. Williams is survived by his wife, Clare, his stepdaughters, Donna Diamond and Toni Shoemaker, six stepgrandchildren and seven stepgreat-grandchildren.
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Post by neferetus on Dec 1, 2007 22:55:45 GMT -5
Waynamo chapel interior.
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Post by neferetus on Dec 1, 2007 22:57:08 GMT -5
Waynamo chapel interior, looking the opposite direction. (Notice the flagstone floor?)
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Post by neferetus on Dec 4, 2007 2:57:09 GMT -5
Jocko's body.
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Post by neferetus on Sept 13, 2010 1:10:38 GMT -5
Sounds like Parson and the Boy. Think so!
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Post by neferetus on Oct 17, 2010 17:56:15 GMT -5
Just a few of the many intersting stills in the Alamo Village museum.
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Post by neferetus on Oct 17, 2010 17:57:02 GMT -5
Jim Brewer and John Wayne.
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