"How the West Was Won". Locations: Then and Now

[@josephbingham1255]

Like a lost civilization. I met Bob Morgan who had been injured in that train accident. Yvonne De Carlo's husband. This was about 1964/65. What I remember was his face seemed red and a scar or protrusion on his forehead. Thanks for the video. My son and I used to camp at the campground near 1:13 :)

[@peterhall5070]

This video is TREMENDOUS! THANK you, Mr. March and Mr. Strohmaier, for producing and posting this. "How the West Was Won" has always been one of my favorite films. I was a little boy when I first saw it in three-strip Cinerama with my family in 1963 and have subsequently seen it throughout the decades more times than I can count, including numerous times at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. You both did such a marvelous job of documenting what was and what is. Landscapes that rarely change along with haunting ghost-like memories of a great film and a Hollywood that is no more. As I approach my senior years, it brought a tear to my eye.

[@rogerokeefe3799]

Great idea to show then and now, glad to see some of them haven't changed much.

[@burthuffman2802]

Very impressive. Now, I can't wait to watch the incredible movie again.

[@freespirit6953]

I just watched the whole film Here in the UK, this Sunday afternoon. I got curious and was delighted to find this video. It’s nice to see that not too much has changed.

[@the_markb]

Very well done!

[@metro3692]

I live in southern Illinois and remember all the "Movie People" at Cave in Rock. I got to see Jimmy Stewart and Walter Brennan. We were all excited to see Walter Brennan because of "The Real McCoys". I was 7 years old. I'll be 65 in August. You did a great job with this video.

[@JohnMiller-zn9pf]

I'm a bit younger but I remember my parents and their friends talking about the filming done on Smithland, Kentucky

[@GeneRogers-di6cl]

Walter Brennan played a bad guy!

[@tompchromedome]

A magnificent effort, thank you for your dedication, much enjoyed and appreciated.

[@gt5512]

Im 53. Made me appreciate this after watching the movie for the first time just today would you believe it. Glad to know the locations are still intact. Great tribute to a great movie!

[@bobhart1155]

Beautiful and breath taking, exquisitely done!! I have loved this film from when I first saw it in the theater with my fellow cub scouts (1963) and now I love it even more after seeing this. Thank you!!

[@sherrymalloy5678]

Just wonderful! Thank you!

[@johnb332]

Wonderful overlays. This film is one of my favorites.

[@joebailey7361]

Wow, that has to be one of the coolest things I've ever seen when it comes to then and now. Thanks for sharing.

[@bobedot]

Excellent work! This should be included on any future Blu-ray or DVD release!

[@tripsadelica]

I agree...it is so beautifully and masterfully done.

[@reggierico]

Well done! A great tribute to one of the most magnificent movies ever made!

[@garyhernbroth6539]

I so o so enjoyed this. One of my favorite films and top soundtrack, and your work with the locations is excellent…hoorah for you, thank you!

[@ericwick7109]

That's amazing! My Grandfather (Addison Hehr) was the art director for this film. I believe he would've loved this.

[@LibertyValence.]

That's amazing did he meet Jack ford on set

[@thomasbelisle6093]

How wonderful that is. I have the special edition on DVD. And occasionally they show it on TV. I always enjoy this western. 😃👍🇺🇸

[@ronz101]

Twinge of admiration for seeing your project through. Lots of research and preparation. Good work.

[@UltraCinemaScope70]

Absolutely amazing work! Wow.

[@DavidMartin-vh4gx]

Absolutely superb, congratulations to you both. One of my all time favourite films, you’ve done a fantastic job. Thank you!

[@vicentekent4298]

Gracias por realizar este video. "La Conquista del Oeste", para mi, es una gran película; además figura entre las más interesantes de la historia del cine porque, en una sóla película, se muestran todos o casi todos los temas típicos del western y por ser la primera filmada en formato "Cinerama".

[@steveobrien8148]

What a marvellous video and a wonderful idea to show these places like this

[@mleeriley3977]

One of the most heart warming movies I've ever seen in my life. TV just wouldn't do it justice. I saw this in CINERAMA. I took your breath away. Would strongly recommend this film to people with kids, History on the screen!

[@billolsen4360]

I saw it in Cinerama in Denver in 1963. I recall my mom gave us kids Dramamine so the photography wouldn't give us motion sickness!

[@georgem7965]

I first saw the movie as a teenager in Chicago at the McVickers Theater. It was part of what influenced me to go to the University of Wyoming and become a geologist. I'm now mostly retired and live in Laramie, WY. This is one of the best "then and now" treatments that I have seen, really excellent.

[@danielhurley2894]

Really nice to see. Great work. The only thing missing was the last scene where the family is taking the buckboard through Monument Valley - - on the way to the Arizona ranch. I believe the shot at Monument Valley is right at "John Wayne Point" - - where the visitors center is.

[@songsmith31a]

A fascinating "return" to scenes from a favourite film, with images like ghosts materialising in front of our eyes. Well done to the creative imagination and skill of those concerned.

[@jcnme]

Absolutely Wonderful ! Thank you for sharing this and for All your hard work bringing us this wonderful video and experience.

[@jerdobi]

Very nice imagery, overlaying the original film and music. You did a great job.

[@carlmagrath6389]

Congratulations Sir, you've made a beautiful video of then & now, to see the film imposed on now, I take my hat off to you, excellent work

[@PhilippinesFarmLife]

Beautiful and very creative. Thank you for uploading

[@spudwas]

This was sublime.

[@RoyHWagnerASC]

Bravo. Lots of work. Beautifully done!

[@Nataloff]

Exquisite, tasteful, evocative, and creative. Stunning work.

[@mylesgarcia4625]

Great piece. Thank you. Brings back so many memories.

[@colleennathans768]

Excellent! Thought-provoking.

[@mobileshop7176]

Thank you so much for your good beautiful programs ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@Hadaller1]

Excellent work! A real treat for us who love the movie! Thanks!

[@shaihulud69]

excellent, je cherchais ces lieux depuis longtemps ,merci++

[@marypetrie930]

Here in UK we have some beautiful landscapes but I love the magnificent and epic grandeur and scale of America. Also loved the way you weaved in the original scenes from that epic movie too! Great stuff.

[@drhkleinert8241]

And how less is changed over the times, like the locations with Jimmy Stewart as Trapper

[@fakerating]

Nicely done!

[@Male92701]

This is fantastic! Beautifully done. What an incredible amount of work this was. I''m so glad that a high quality blu-ray was made of HTWWW, where the lines between the 3 film strips was almost perfectly matched. I think I saw it about 5 times in different Cinerama theaters. The best screening was at the Chicago McVickers theater. It is still one of the most amazing movie events - ever! Kudos on this video.

[@pf4484]

Very good!

[@d.w.d.w.3031]

That's absolutely superb! Stunning, really!!

[@tubesterini]

I LOVE THIS VIDEO SO MUCH! THANK YOU for putting it all together ...and so beautifully..

[@hourlynewscaster]

Wow, what a stunning piece of work. I wish you would do that for "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World." You are the best.

[@mylesgarcia4625]

There is one out there for Mad, Mad, Mad World.

[@bradleysmall2230]

@@mylesgarcia4625 the guy searched the wrong road for a while and could not locate some airplane scenes.

[@tarawerachannel4780]

Well done guys. Fantastic!

Excellent tour, guys. Thanks for this.

[@bobcontreras5638]

I just finished watching the movie and was wondering whete they had filmed this movie. Such beautiful scenery. Then I found your KZbin channel and was so happy for your video you put on. Thanks for the info.

[@rustykilt]

Well done !....great memories of a movie that is a classic.....

[@nancyfarmer4289]

I know it’s been five years but thank you so much!

[@jean-luc1634]

Superbe travail, génial !

[@mitchgibbs5304]

Well done… IMHO, the Ben Hur of westerns…. I’ve been to Oatman and that store has even more relevance after you fantastic tribute..

[@robstewart5995]

Thank you! We were just in Perkinsville AZ the other day and saw the train station.

[@kennethriley377]

My grandpa was a extra as a kid in Smithland. He still lives there about a mile from the scenes... He was on the front page of the local paper Im guessing the Paducah Sun.

[@colonialradio1]

Brilliant!! Amazing editing!! This is a favorite film of mine and it was great to see this.

[@bobwallace9814]

In that era, these epic movies starred everyone that was anyone all at the same time. Going to see a movie then was an event. You wore nice clothes, got there early to hear the live organ player just off stage. The huge red velvet curtains opened to this movie filmed in wide screen and speakers surrounding the audience. The sound was everywhere. You sat in comfy red velvet seats in a huge ornate gold relief theatre with balcony and box seats. An intermission came on for all to refill at the snack bar and hit the can. As the movies ended, the red curtains would slowly shut and the live organ commenced. The organ was the last thing you heard as you trudged up the red carpet incline to the exit doors to the lobby.

[@stevendwyer4233]

Wow what a great job you did on the locations, just magnificent. There"s a scene where they start the wagon train and they come to a area that has sand hills and the wagon train is traveling through, its 58 mins and 25 seconds into the movie,Would you know where this location is,as i"ve been trying for years to find it.

[@allanredford6070]

brilliant, saw HTWWW in a mobile Cinerama unit(big blue tents!), as a boy while on a summer family holiday in Torquay, Devon, iEngland.(1960s') it rinforced my desire to see the west. I made 10 visits /its biiig!) starting in 1980,(mainly to see Monument Valley). I wrote in the MV visitors book 'a boyhood ambition fulfilled'. from Tucson in the south to Jackson Hole WY. iun the north, it never disappointed, with all its national parks, pacific coastline. great country, great people. God bless America

[@timalanthwaite4759]

Yes, I was there. In a muddy field behind Goodrington Sands. THE most thrilling experience of my young life and, if the truth be told, still is. I've made the pilgrimage to Lone Pine etc, and now have my own mini cinema. My favourite film, it's almost a religious experience to watch it.

[@gabrielat2693]

Always amazed at how the American West still captures European’s imagination; we visited Dartmouth and other UK areas last June and always got asked questions about horses and the different places in the West. I loved southern UK and seeing where movies were filmed there!

[@NB-uw9fn]

Fantastic job 👍

[@MrKaewkwan]

Really appreciates, You have wonderful job with comparing screen... Nice to see it now and then ...

[@darrellgritten4398]

Very well done.

[@jamescrawford9883]

I was a 20 year old merchant seaman when I first saw it in Sydney, Australia, in Cinerama. I just love this movie and watch the smilebox blu-Ray now. Wish I could see the real thing again! Thanks for this, you must have done a lot of research to find all these places!

[@GeneRogers-di6cl]

Thank you for sharing this information

[@degsbabe]

Great job guys.

[@captpauli]

Great work! Left out the Bison stampede in Custer State Park, South Dakota

[@PaulKyriazi]

Good job making this video using an overlay technique that's new to me for then and now videos.

[@stevenrafters7817]

Great video. We camp at the Perkinsville depot when we are hunting,with ranch permission of the ranch owners. It was built in 1912

[@chsgrad75]

What a terrific talent you have, one of my top 3-4 movies of my life, and it gets a great treatment from you here. Thank you! Do you happen to know where (exactly) the scene with Stewart and Baker is when the fall in love or decide to stay together after the raft accident? My favorite scene. How wonderful of you to do this!

[@tommarch8363]

That scene would have been filmed on the spit of land at the confluence of the Cumberland and Ohio rivers. The actors were ferried across to that film location. The other major film location in Smithland was at Court Street and Riverfront Drive.

[@fredparkinson1289]

Good job overlaying the scenes then and now.

[@leemclaury6251]

Very well done

[@thomascrew8268]

This is wonderful

[@excitedartists5994]

Excellent job!!!

[@billdougan4022]

Great video. About 4 minutes after Debbie Reynolds gets off the train at Perkinsville, AZ, there is a mine shaft scene with George Peppard, tells the boys not to get too close. I was wondering if you know, if that is filmed in Oatman with the overhead ore buckets. Thanks

[@arjoma]

Very good work of love! I enjoyed it very much!

[@Goze211]

Wow really well done

[@Dr.Pepper001]

I saw that movie in Cinerama 15 times at the 5 Points Theater in Jacksonville, Florida. How did you ever find those places?

[@_JimS]

BRAVO!!

[@pilates68]

This is really well put together. They really were great locations. I guess the Civil War sequence by John Ford was done on sound stages, so nothing to see here. Everything else however, is breathtaking!!!

[@professeurbergamotte8759]

Great !!!

[@drhkleinert8241]

Thanks so much, great work! I am sure that there more locations for to find, maybe the area at the beginning when the Prescott family waits for the ship or the woods where Rawlings and Eve Prescott met and falls in love. Most scenes were don in Studio halls , OK, and i love that there are still some houses and that they dont break all old houses down after filming.

[@goplatanew]

10 Bravo !!

[@GuyGoodday]

nice job !

[@johnherian781]

Thank you

[@robertoler3795]

awesome

[@michaelmcgee8543]

Enjoyed!

[@Numero_six]

Great Job ! Thanks a lot !

[@robertgraziano]

Great movies live forever!

[@karlzynda3403]

tolle Arbeit, good job - Respect und Thank you

[@Javelina_Poppers]

I worked for the Magma Copper mine that owned the line and the train that was used to film the train robbery with George Peppard and Eli Wallach. I road that line several times and the steam engine when they occasionally run it.

[@williampratt5853]

Very interesting

[@rickyj5547]

Thanks.

[@kensvaty9652]

Do you have all the locations listed as well as a map with locations marked? Excellent job BTW.

[@RobertoMendoza]

Increible trabajo, lo felicito, maravilloso ver el cambio con el tiempo.

[@perschiller7690]

Very well made!

[@michaelhayden725]

About the only part that has changed little is that closing aerial shot of SAN Francisco with Tracey’s brilliant narrative.

[@jremy7]

Thank you :)

[@normanbrunt2053]

Great piece of film! The movie must of kept the Location Scouts busy.

[@AtomicSquid5433]

this movie gives me nostalgia for these places as if i was actually there...

[@liberareview3567]

Wow

[@bobcontreras5638]

I was