Show How I Broke Into if The Movies j I 1 I Cop r tM by Hal rUI C G tn lt B By HOOT GIBSON I JAM AM sorry that I cannot relate a s atal stale tal tale of hardships and Ind privation but taj my entry into motion pictures s was TaB accomplished ac Ie- accomplished with comparative ease case after aner I decided to work In them I cant can't exactly say that I broke Into the movies It all seemed to ha happen pen systematically The he movies seemed like an opportunity and when they opened op their doors to me I 1 rode rolle In Im I'm a native of Nebraska was born In the small but ambitious town ofT of T lah which h was smaller then Ihen than It It Is now nO but It W was S large targe enough t to please me mehm when hm t started life lIro under the less leRs fantastic name of Edward Edward- and It gave me my education My lily education n completed I hl began an to wan wane dor dr and Inasmuch as 88 the only thins thing i I 1 knew anything about was ranch I work I wandered to different nt ranches I hll have e been riding rilling horses hous as far back as I can remember and I was as much at home In the saddle soe as 88 on the ground 1 LeIng an adventurous youth I began to try various difficult and daring feats fats of ot horsemanship end and after aCtEr plenty of ot hard work I 1 got Ri so If I could hD handle a n horse well enough to 10 get a a jolt job wrangling cattle which 1 I did for several years I found the ta task k of pursuing cattle over large and dusty dURly prairies 8 quite s sn an n unexciting employment nt So 1 when I Imet Imet Imet met up with a traveling eling Wild West Nest show I was overjoyed at the opportunity opportunity of ot joining It as one of the star trick and ond stunt riders It was wai wa known then as nick hick Stanleys Stanley's Congress of Hough Bough Riders In 1012 1112 I 1 entered the annual I ton Ore round up as os one of ot the I aZ R 4 a h Hoot Gibson contesting riders When lien the dust t had bad settled on the rodeo I 1 found myself my lilY myself self holding the tho around all cowboy championship It was a job and I worked hard to get It but I kept right on riding rid lag ing for I left with the American del delegation delegation dele dele- e gation gallon of punchers cow-punchers for tor Australia Austral a where I rode In the foreign meets fo for r seven seven ven months About this time tone motion pictures picturE's were e just beginning to show some signs o ot 01 ei i development and after reaching I country again I found myself talkie talking g with motion picture producers The They y happened to have a field for western wester n pictures so I started directing program program program pro gram or short length westerns I might have continued on this unpretentious un pretentious status for the rest rEat of m my y career but seeing the opportunities f In Inthe Inthe n the acting end of the game I decided decide d to get into the grea grease e paint and se see e what would develop I had directed d about 40 pictures and had a fair knowledge knowl know 1 edge of what the Industry wanted I Ii In Inthe the line of western productions 1 I I have always had what some people people peo pea pie call a sense of or humor and I J wan waned wanted want t ed to use It to advantage If possible I saw tremendous possibilities In ma making mak k ing log westerns that went off ort the beaten beate n path of melodramatic action pictures picture s I wanted to Intersperse the exaggerated t ed action of my pictures with comedy T and human touches I found a dir director director tor nid ald together we conspired to d do o comedy and human touches The result result re te sult suit was a better and more popular r brand of pictures I know of ot no other business where e merit is rewarded as 88 It t Is la In th the e movies movies hut but merit must be aided b by I labor and plenty of It Service |