biggin1a wrote:
Read "The Manazar Fishing Club". Been there several times with a group of artists that used to convene there to paint and raise funds for the museum. One of the artists, who is now deceased, was interned there as a child. Over 500 hundred films/TV shows have been filmed in that area around the Alabama Hills.
Yes, lots of Westerns and SciFi and other films made at and near the Alabama Hills and Mount Whitney. Manzanar is about 10 miles North. You guys raised funds for the Manzanar Relocation/Interment Museum or the Alabama Hills/Lone Pine Museum of Western Film History? I have been to both.
Interesting, there is a fishing story about the internees. There is a lot of info about L.A. Portrait photographer Toyo Miyatake who snuck in a camera lens and then built a camera in the wood and machine shops. The administrators and guards must have known as they brought film to him to use. He was careful what he chose to photograph from the inside.