Old State House Exhibit Touts Arkansans In The Movies
by June 3, 2013 8:22 pm 106 views
A new free exhibit opens June 8 at the Old State House Museum in Little Rock that promises to open your eyes to the visual medium of film.
Lights! Camera! Arkansas! is a new feature that will highlight the careers of Arkansas filmmakers, directors and movie stars from the silent movie era to modern day.
Chris Hickey with our content partner, KUAR-FM 89 News, reports:
A new exhibit focusing on the lives of Arkansas-born entertainers who went on to make a name for themselves in Hollywood will soon open at the Old State House Museum in downtown Little Rock.
Lights! Camera! Arkansas! will review the careers of movie stars and directors who all had their origin in the state.
It will chronicle the history of Arkansans in the movies all the way back to The Great Train Robbery of 1903, widely considered the first feature film as we know it today.
“An Arkansan by the name of Bronco Billy Anderson whose real name was Gilbert M. Anderson: he was born in Little Rock and spent some of his childhood in Pine Bluff. And he was actually in [that] very first movie. He had three minor roles and made like 50 cents a day,” says Jo Ellen Mack, the museum’s curator.
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