The General 90th Anniversary Keepsake Program
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From the May 27, 1926 Sentinel:
Cottage Grove becomes Hollywood of Oregon for 10 week period!
18 train carloads of
equipment - Keaton
company unloaded
C
ity is bustling with inter-
est for the filming of the
big picture. W.G. Gilmour,
business manager, and 20 assis-
tants arrived yesterday with the
equipment for the filming of
“The General”.
Actual work of laying out
townsites and choosing loca-
tions will take place when
Buster Keaton arrives on Sat.
Entire upper story of the
Service Garage building is rent-
ed for wardrobe and make-up
room — and players will leave
from here each day made up
for the parts they are to take.
Two men are make up artists
and will be employed continu-
ously, and it is intimated that
when not engaged they will be
willing to give lessons to the
women of the city. Some of
which would like to become
adept in the transformation of
the human face.
Some street scenes will be taken
on the old Pacific Highway,
Dorena and adjacent logging
roads.
Besides the business and pro-
duction managers, there will be
a chief of properties and loca-
tion manager, wardrobe chief,
construction chief, chief drafts-
man, chief electrician and head
painter.
Eighteen cars of equipment at
a cost of $6000 have arrived.
Some railroad cars, which
arrived on flat cars, have now
been assembled and will be
used in railway scenes of the
picture. Over 1200 costumes
have arrived.
Many residents here have
expressed determination to wit-
ness the burning of the Row
River bridge when the engine
will crash through it. In one
way, they will be disappointed.
While the picture will show the
bridge enveloped in flames,
and while the engine will crash
through, the bridge will not be
actually burned.
It is going to be hard to get
anything done in Cottage
Grove while Keaton and com-
pany are here. The actors will
have a large audience every day.
The arrival of leading lady Marion Mack, who re-
portedly enjoyed driving around the countryside
unaccompanied in a new automobile, must have
caused quite a stir in this once-sleepy timber
town.
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