FAMOUS PLACES

Includes footage of The Stage Melodrama, “Tatters, The Pet Of Squatter’s Gulch,” at California’s first theater in Monterey; The theater was resurrected by Dene Denney and Hazel Watrous with the “Tatters” production, opening June 3, 1937, running three nights and being revived for another week in July; “Tatters” was filmed by Dick Bare, who may have been connected to a Carmel production company; A new color filming technique, given a trial run for “Tatters,” was developed by Bare and his partner Bob Edgren, both “Film Nuts” who ran the Filmarte Theather in Carmel, which showed shocking films like “Ecstasy.”

Color Film

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