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.

Pioneertown Is Becoming
Hollywood Of Westerns

These places will be used as movie sets, and in between are propped real false-front sets imported from Hollywood. The towns 300 pre-Hollywood residents will get in the act, too. The barber who runs the “Klip ‘N Kurl” place will play barber for “Cisco Kid.” The town electrician will work the klieg lights; the Red Dog bartender will act movie bartender.

Dec. 1, 1948 - Tyler Morning Telegraph featured image

Producer Turns Desert Village Into Made-To-Order Movie Set

PIONEERTOWN, Calif, Nov 30. The Wild West not being so wild anymore, a Western movie company is turning this desert village into a permanent cowtown. This Hollywood version of the good, old days started out to be a resort for Western movie stars with millyuns. Even the stores of the tiny one-street town were built in old-fashioned Western style to make oatburner heroes feel right at home.

Genuine Wild West Town
Springs Up in Desert

The Wild West not being so wild anymore, a Western movie company is turning this desert village into a permanent cowtown. This Hollywood version of the good, old days started out to be a resort for Western movie stars with millyuns. Even the stores of the tiny one-street town were built in old-fashioned Western style to make oatburner heroes feel right at home.

DESERT VILLAGE NOW MOVIETOWN
Company Makes Permanent Location

December 3, 1948
The Tampa Tribune
Old News

The entrance to the village has a sign, "Pioneertown is this-a-way." Next sign: "Horseless carriages ain't aloud on Mane St." even Producer Krasne discreetly parks his Cadillac off the dirt street.

Philip N. Krasne Establishes New Hollywood.

Philip N. Krasne, producer, has established a new Hollywood for western pictures--Pioneertown. One hundred and twenty miles from Hollywood. It has a studio, stage and $250,000 worth of sets purchased from the defunct Enterprise studios.

Desert Search For Autry Horse’s Double

A posse of airplanes, sheriff's officers and cowboys is scouring the desert near Pioneertown for the double of actor Gene Autry's horse Champion.

Boys Rewarded For Horse-Tracking Job

All efforts to locate the horse, which was wearing a $5,000 saddle and bridle, had failed until the boys trailed him for five hours through the San Bernardino mountains

Hollywood Film Shop

Taking movies on location is so big a business that a new town has spread up to handle it. A bunch of Hollywoodities run a clearing in the desert called Pioneertown where the chief thoroughfare is "Mane Street," the hay barn is a sound stage and half the buildings are false fronts.

New Town Provides “Location”

April 21, 1949
Latrobe Bulletin
Old News

A bunch of Hollywoodites run a clearing in the desert where the chief thoroughfare is "Mane Street," the hay barn is a sound stage and half the buildings are false fronts.

Town Built For Western Film Scenes

The latest movie moviemaker the Pioneertown people enticed there was Gene Autry, who usually flies hundreds of miles to find backgrounds for his Columbia westerns. They persuaded him Pioneertown looked just as good as Arizona and was considerably closer.