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Making the film

posted 18 years ago by smallun
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God's Country and the Woman was filmed on location in Washington State in 1936. The closing shot was on Spirit Lake with Mount St. Helens in the background. My father and grandfather worked on the film and were actually on screen for a second or two. Many Cowlitz County kids swam in the "Hollywood pool" on the river not knowing it was named that because the "train wreck" put railroad cars into that pool. I was told that the "new" color cameras weighed something like 750 pounds and that two of three filming the dynamiting of the logjam were blown into the river by the blast.

[–] lmakov 14 years ago

Smallun,

That's interesting . Thanks for pointing all of that out. I'm watching the film right now & will look for that final scene showing Spirit lake and Mt. St. Helen's.

[–] lmakov 14 years ago

I just saw the scene and what a great view of Spirit lake and Mt. St. Helen's it was too !!

Smallun, thanks again for the trivia !!

[–] mikeoak840 11 years ago

A friend's uncle was Harry Truman, so I remembered this film for two reasons - from my film classes in college because it was the first full-length Technicolor movie, and because of the end scene filmed at the lodge fifty years before the mountain blew. I was chucking a bit and thinking "Oh, the irony!" when they showed all the boxes of dynamite on the log jam - "Volcano Powder" brand.

[–] Wfs1933 11 years ago

Becky Sharp-1935 was the first full-length Technicolor film made, i also think Garden of Allah-1936 and Trail of the loansome pine-1936 were made before.

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