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Show Movies Go East (Arizona) To Go Western PHOENIX, Aria, tff Movie cowboys at long last are riding the real Arlsona range. Since way back In the days when motion pictures flickered haltingly, handsome wranglers have done most of their cow punching around Hollywood. For some of the more elaborate westerns, Hollywood studios send their casts to Arizona locations for authentic background. But now, after years of trans-' trans-' planting the romantic Arizona cattle cat-tle country In Hollywood for movie purposes, the producers are doing a right about face and bringing their production facilities to the state where the settings of so many pictures are laid. Governor Bob Jones, disclosing approximately J10.000.000 would be exoended In Arizona for motion picture production In- 1939 and 1940. Invited Hollvwood studios to come to this state. "If the motion picture Industry apeak, and wants to secure new and fertile fields for exploitation and development, we Invite them tn corns to A,iiaMtinj the last west em frontier,'' Jones said. The governor said he had been anured that most major studios already were, or soon would be, filming pictures In Arizona. Producers are finding that pictures pic-tures may be filmed far cheaper In Arizona than Hollywood. A representative rep-resentative of one of the major studios pointed out that natural settings are much less expensive than those which must be built; the cost of extraa Is low, 1500 being available for the cost of 200 In Hollvwood; fair weather eliminates elimi-nates filming delays. The first feature-length picture produced entirely In Arizona cost 9" 000. This film had Its premiere In Phoenix recently and was acclaimed aa entertaining as the usual western and photographically photograph-ically beautiful. It waa "The Gentleman Gen-tleman from Arizona," photographed photo-graphed In natural color on a desert setting. The cast Included Hollywood actors among them John King, Joan Barclay and J. Farrell Mac-Donald Mac-Donald who were supported by Arizoniana. |