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The first movie studio in Texas : Gaston Méliès's Star Film Ranch / Kathryn Fuller-Seeley and Frank Thompson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fuller-Seeley, Kathryn, author.
- Thompson, Frank, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Méliès, Gaston, 1852-1915.
- Méliès, Gaston.
- Méliès Manufacturing Company.
- Star Film Company.
- Motion picture studios--Texas--San Antonio--History--20th century.
- Motion picture studios.
- Motion picture producers and directors--France--Biography.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Gaston Méliès's Star Film Ranch
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- The story of the Star Film Ranch and its pioneering crew, who created the first ""authentic"" Westerns filmed in Texas.In 1910, the Méliès Star Film Company of Manhattan set up a moving-picture studio outside San Antonio, the first in Texas. Determined to make the most authentic Westerns possible, the company filmed there for a little over a year.
- Contents:
- The Méliès Star Film troupe’s early days in San Antonio, January 1910
- The city of San Antonio, 1910
- Méliès Star films’ first season, January–April 1910
- Méliès films produced in New York, May–October 1910
- Reporters’ visits to the Star Ranch: a snapshot of filmmaking in San Antonio
- The Méliès troupe’s heyday in Texas, 1911: dramatic films
- Drama or comedy? Multiple interpretations of Billy and his pal
- Méliès Star western comedies, 1911
- The immortal Alamo
- Francis Ford’s moviemaking education and other Star Ranch memories
- California and the world, 1911–1913
- Recuperating Gaston Méliès’s film legacy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed April 28, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Fuller-Seeley, Kathryn. The First Movie Studio in Texas.
- ISBN:
- 1477333134
- 9781477333136
- OCLC:
- 1565283058
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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