Film Luminaries Buy Desert Site
The development called "Pioneertown" is on the eastern slope of the San Bernardino mountains, and complete sound stages and outdoor movie location.
Tag Motion Pictures in Pioneertown
These are newspaper articles with stories involving the filming of motion pictures and television shows in and around Pioneertown Ca. USA.
Mustang Mellers Totaling Up To $20,000,000 in Oats
Pioneertown Corp. recently organized by 17 members of the film business, bought 13,000 acres of desert land near Palm Springs as the site of a dude ranch and motion picture location. Project calls for sound stage, outdoor shooting spots and hotel accommodations for 300 guests.
Movie Celebrities to Launch Development of
‘World’s Most Unusual City’ on Desert Today
Development of Pioneertown, a unique motion picture location and resort community was be formally launched with ground-breaking ceremonies and an all-day celebration.
Westerns Now Booming New Desert Hollywood
The classic advice, “Go west, young man,” is now being amended to “Go east, slightly.” For, in a saga of modern pioneering that sounds like Hollywood repeating itself, the movie makers are establishing a new frontier at Pioneertown, 125 miles east of Los Angeles and less than five miles up into the San Bernadino Mountains from Yucca Valley. There they are producing and will produce fittingly westerns.
The Desert Sun Full Page Ad
his full-page advertisement for the Pioneertown Land Company was run in the Desert Sun on March 25th, 1947. This advertisement features Roy Rogers and Dale Evans and the Sons of the Pioneers, after whom the town is named after. This ad was the first big push to get people interested in Pioneertown. This was during the height of the popularity of the Western Movie.
A short-subject motion picture is being filmed at Pioneertown on Sunday, December 14, and many celebrities will be on hand for the shooting, including Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, the Sons of the Pioneers and many others. Special quarter-horse races and other rodeo events.
Studio Selects Pioneertown
for Production Site
Plans for the permanent location of a motion picture studio in Pioneertown, west of Twentynine Palm, we're disclosed at a meeting of the San Bernardino County board of supervisors by Dick Curtis, president and general manager of Pioneertown Inc.
Movies Humming
At Pioneertown
Pioneertown, up in the San Bernardino mountains across the desert from Palm Springs is going to boom. It is a beehive of activity today with movie sets rolling in at better than a truck a day.
Cisco Kid Finds a Home
In Permanent Pioneertown
The Cisco kid has found a permanent home for himself and for his sidekicks. It's a brand-new community as communities go named Pioneertown, located in the San Bernardino Mountains some 125 miles southeast of Hollywood, and thereby hangs a tale.
Founded more than a year ago by some young Californians as a mountain-desert resort, Pioneertown as all the advantages of superb mountain scenery, bracing desert climate and meet on untouched beauty of the region.
New ‘Cisco Kid’ Films
Ready for Shooting
Producer Philip Krasne, committed to eight "Cisco Kid" features a year for the next three years to United Artists, announced today that the third and fourth in the series "Bold Bandido" and "The Darling Caballero" will go before the camera shortly in Pioneertown, the exclusive and real western city which will be the location of all future system films.