Friday, August 07, 2015

Dallas 1938

From Dallas Morning News:

This is what downtown Dallas and Fair Park looked like in 1938 ... in color movies

ROBERT WILONSKY / Staff Writer

Last fall Paula Bosse, curator of the indispensable Flashback Dallas, drew our attention to a long-forgotten film titled A Cavalcade of Texas shot in 1938 by movie-biz "empire-builder" (in the words of Cecil B. DeMille, at least) Karl Hoblitzelle. It's quite the in-color look-see at the entirety of the state way back when.


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