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Welcome to the Film Festival Screening Room

The videos below represent the earliest documentation of the Lone Pine Film Festival. Many, are from the estate of Jim Drake, TV/Movie Director, big western film fan who was an aficionado of their productions from scripts to screen, and longtime Lone Pine supporter. Jim was an attendee of the Lone Pine Film Festivals from the very beginning (Sierra Film Festival 1990) and every subsequent festival until about 2022. During his attendance he documented many of the celebrity festival panels, interviews and tours with his personal cameras.  After his death in 2022, his wife Brigit kindly donated his collection totaling over 40 hours of video. They have been digitized for our archives and presented below for your viewing.

Other contributors are Jay Dee Witney and Tron Miller and of course, some from the Internet form Film Festival followers. 

For a full listing with panel descriptions you might want to review before watching. Click Here

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The video links listed below work directly by clicking on them, but if you “Right” click on the video and select “copy video url” and paste this into your browser, you can view the video in the Museum’s online LONE PINE THEATER, and read the full description of the video.

Film Festivals 1990 - 1994

1990 Sierra Film Festival, Narrated by Jim Hall

1994 Charles Champlin Hosted by Dave Holland

1994 William Witney On Location

1994 Star Panel

(1994) Edd "Kookie Byrnes comes to Lone Pine

Director William Witney talks about Roy Rogers horse, Trigger 1994 BBC Interview

William Witney 1994 FF Talks about the Alabama Hills

Film Festivals 1995 - 1999

1995 Star Panel Hosted by Dave Holland

1998 Star Panel Hosted by Dave Holland

1999 John Mitchum

1997 Star Panel Hosted by Dave Holland

1999 Ernest Borgnine

1999 Burt Kennedy & Bud Boetticher

1995 Grace Bradley Boyd interview with Michael Cochran.

1999 Dale Evans

Film Festivals 2000 - 2004

2002 Star Panel Hosted by William Wellman Jr.

2004 Star Panel Hosted by Ed Hulse

Film Festivals 2005 - 2009

2005 Star Panel Hosted by Boyd Magers

2006 Star Panel Hosted by Boyd Magers

2008 FF Gregory Peck - A Pictorial/Video of Yellow Sky.

2005 Star Panel Women & Stunts Hosted by Ed Hulse

2007 Harry Carey; Ben Johnson & More

2006 Star Panel SIlent Movie Stars with Ed Hulse

2008 FF Ed Faulkner on John Wayne

Film Festivals 2010 - 2014

2011 Peter Jones Reports

2012 Peggy Stewart

Movieguides Interview (2014) Museum of Western Film History

Film Festivals 2015 - 2019

2016 FF Billy King Remembers

2016 Ed Hulse Interviews Davd Rothel

2016 FF Mike Royer shares John Wayne Location

2016 Billy King I Rode with Hopalong Cassidy in 4 movies

2016 Interview - Loren Janes & John Mitchum

FF 2018 Panel 3 Bad Men w Hulse, Mankiewicz, Wellman Jr. & Dan Ford.

2016 Film Festival - Shootout in the Alabama Hills - Stuntmen

Film Festivals 2020 - 2024

2022 Bruce Boxleitner

2022 Robert Carradine

2022 Cheryl Rogers

2022 Louis Race

2022 Claude Jarmin

2022 Larry Maurice

2022 Diamond Farnsworth

2022 William Wellman Jr.

2022 J.C. Munns Entertains us!

2022 The Villians of Lone Pine Ross with Ross Schnioffsky & Warren Davey

2023 Remembering Slim Pickens

2022 Dave Matuszak Top 10 Chase Scenes

2023 Kids Our Cowboy Kings

2022 Marc Wanamaker Women in Westerns

2023 Remembering Tom Steel

2023 Dorothy Best

2023 Tony Cameron

2023 Kirk Ellis

2024 Jim Clark

Film Festivals 2025

Part #1 35 Years

Part #2 35 Years

Part #3 35 Years

Part #4 35 Years

Watch many more celebrity Interviews from the 2009 video archives
featuring 13 interviews with Cheryl Rogers.
Peggy Stewart, Stella Stevens, Geri Jewell, Ben Cooper, Perry King, Paul Picerni,
Denny Miller, Hugh O’Brien; Director; William Wellman Jr.
and Stunt men; Diamond Farnsworth and Loren Janes,
and Legendary Paramount Executive – A.C. Lyles.
https://museumofwesternfilmhistory.org/screening-room-film-festivals/