Celebrating 100 years+ of Chatsworth (Santa Susana Pass aka Boulder Pass) Movies
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There have been a few newcomers visiting my blog, so I figure it would be a good idea to create an overview of my celebration of 100 years of Chatsworth Movie making.
In Chatsworth's backyard, there remains a fantasyland that was forever made famous by Hollywood…
A place where Superman once captured the evil Luthor in his hidden Stoney Point cave, where Batman wrestled a criminal on top of a speeding locomotive, where Tarzan the Ape Man found an ancient elephant graveyard, and where John Wayne's fighting Seabees pushed a Japanese tank off the same cliff that Nyoka used to escape Vultura’s killer ape.
The place is Boulder Pass. It was the jungles of India and Africa, the sands of the Sahara, the Khyber Pass between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the plains of Montana, and the High Sierras and the Rocky Mountains all rolled into one.
It was the scene of stagecoach holdups, posses chasing outlaws on owlhoot (outlaw) trails, Indians attacking white settlers in remote cabins, flying rocket men, and unearthly spaceship landings. It was a land for make-believe. It could be anything a Hollywood director fancied.
Boulder Pass is a fictitious name borrowed from an old B-Western movie. The real place is the Santa Susana Pass in Chatsworth, California. For over a century, the Santa Susana Pass has been home to the granddaddy of all movie location ranches--the Iverson Ranch.
My name is Jerry England. I live in Chatsworth. In fact, I can see the rocky remains of the Iverson Ranch from my front porch. I am also an author (see http://www.cowboyup.com/) and movie historian who has been researching Chatsworth's filming locations for more than a dozen years.
Locations researched include: Iverson Ranch, Brandeis Ranch, Burro Flats, Bell Ranch, Spahn Ranch, Chatsworth Lake, Chatsworth Trains, Roy Rogers' Double R Bar Ranch, and Corriganville
In 2012, we celebrated 100 years since D.W. Griffith cranked the first motion picture camera while shooting a short film titled Man's Genesis (1912).
Since then I've been paying homage to Chatsworth Movies by sharing film titles and memorabilia discovered during my research:
Early and Silent Films
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- The beginning (1912 - 1922)
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Sound arrives (1923 - 1929)
Classic Movies
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- 1930s Classic Movies
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- 1940s Classic Movies
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Classics 1950 - 1953
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Classics 1954 - 1956
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Classics 1957 - 1959
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Classics after 1960
Cliffhangers
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- 1930s Cliffhangers (Serials)
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- 1940s Cliffhangers (Serials)
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- 1950s Cliffhangers (Serials)
Westerns
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns (1930 - 1936)
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns (1937 - 1939)
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1940
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1941
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1942
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1943
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1944
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1945
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1946
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1947
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1948
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1949
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1950
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1951
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1952
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1953
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1954
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1955
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1956
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1957
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1958
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1959
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns after 1960
TV Westerns
'Wait for me, Wild Bill!' -- Chatsworth's TV Westerns
TV Filming at Corriganville
Best Chatsworth Movies
Best Chatsworth Movies -- Stagecoach (1939)
Best Chatsworth Movies -- They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
Best Chatsworth Movies -- The Oklahoma Kid (1939)
The Oklahoma Kid and 'Whizzer'
Best Chatsworth Movies -- Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
Was Billy the Kid (1930) filmed in Porter Ranch? YES it Was!
Hi-yo, Silver! Away! -- "The Lone Ranger" (1956)
Best Chatsworth Movies -- Land Beyond the Law (1937)
Best Chatsworth Movies -- The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Best Chatsworth Movies -- The Fighting Seabees (1944)
Best Chatsworth Movies -- Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
Best Chatsworth Movies -- Perils of Nyoka (1942)
Best Chatsworth Movies -- "Ride 'Em Cowboy" (1942)
Best Chatsworth Movies -- The Taming of the West (1939)
Best Chatsworth Movies -- The Trusted Outlaw (1937)
Best Chatsworth Movies -- The Renegade Ranger (1938)
Best Chatsworth Movies -- Three Ages (1923)
Best Chatsworth Movies -- The Gallant Legion (1948)
Best Chatsworth Movies -- The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Best Chatsworth Movies -- Tell It to the Marines (1926)
Best Chatsworth Movies -- The Terror Tiny Town (1938)
Newly Discovered Iverson Ranch Western Titles
Older Posts (duplicates)
Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies - Overview
Also, don't miss The Rock Stars of Boulder Pass (aka Santa Susana Pass)
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