Join us Saturday evening December 1st as we remember the 23,110 American casualties of the battle of Antietam.
Ranger Mannie
Friday, November 30, 2007
Antietam Illumination
Join us Saturday evening December 1st as we remember the 23,110 American casualties of the battle of Antietam.
Ranger Mannie
Monday, November 26, 2007
One never knows...
what one may find when one checks one's mailbox, does one?
I'll keep you posted,
Ranger Mannie
p.s. It's Antietam related.
Thursday, November 22, 2007
South Mountain Sojourn: a Thanksgiving hike
I combined stills taken last week with movie footage this morning for this short film. Join Virginia and I as we hike along one of our too often overlooked Civil War battlegrounds: South Mountain...my backyard.
By the way, total views for my various Youtube videos have just passed 50,000. Thanks to all for tuning in!
Mannie
By the way, total views for my various Youtube videos have just passed 50,000. Thanks to all for tuning in!
Mannie
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Monday, November 19, 2007
Never one to pass up the bandwagon...
WOW!
A remarkable photograph has just come to light at the National Archives which has the blogosphere, as well as the print media totally a twitter.
This may very probably be a much sought after and long-mislaid production still from the classic John Ford western "Stagecoach".
Despite the deterioration, the actual "stagecoach" can be seen to the right. Note also, the fairly primitive boom microphone towering above the extras and production crew to the left.
This still of the 1939 film seems to confirm that the coach in the newly discovered photo is the one from the movie.
As to the identity of the man on horseback with the tall black hat, at first I thought it was actor John Carridine, though examination of his hat in the photo above clearly takes him out of the running (and dosen't Claire Trevor look lovely?).
I was able to eliminate Tim Holt and Andy Devine as well. It was becoming more and more likely that the horseman was the "Duke" himself! Ladies and gentlemen...Mr. John Wayne!
Sadly, this photo of Wayne in his "Stagecoach" role as the Ringo Kid, eliminated Duke as the mystery horseman. Not only is his hat white (or mouse gray) . but he's riding in the stagecoach and not astride a horse.
You can only imagine my dismay when the hat of Thomas Mitchell, the dipsomananical "uncle Billy" of the Capra holiday classic "It's a Wonderful Life" revealed him as the man on the horse.
Much ado about so little, but hope springs eternal when it comes to John Wayne.
That's a wrap!
Producer/Director Mannie
A remarkable photograph has just come to light at the National Archives which has the blogosphere, as well as the print media totally a twitter.
This may very probably be a much sought after and long-mislaid production still from the classic John Ford western "Stagecoach".
Despite the deterioration, the actual "stagecoach" can be seen to the right. Note also, the fairly primitive boom microphone towering above the extras and production crew to the left.
This still of the 1939 film seems to confirm that the coach in the newly discovered photo is the one from the movie.As to the identity of the man on horseback with the tall black hat, at first I thought it was actor John Carridine, though examination of his hat in the photo above clearly takes him out of the running (and dosen't Claire Trevor look lovely?).
I was able to eliminate Tim Holt and Andy Devine as well. It was becoming more and more likely that the horseman was the "Duke" himself! Ladies and gentlemen...Mr. John Wayne!
Sadly, this photo of Wayne in his "Stagecoach" role as the Ringo Kid, eliminated Duke as the mystery horseman. Not only is his hat white (or mouse gray) . but he's riding in the stagecoach and not astride a horse.
You can only imagine my dismay when the hat of Thomas Mitchell, the dipsomananical "uncle Billy" of the Capra holiday classic "It's a Wonderful Life" revealed him as the man on the horse.
Much ado about so little, but hope springs eternal when it comes to John Wayne.
That's a wrap!
Producer/Director Mannie
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