Topic: westerns
East is Western: Johnny To's "Exiled" plays SFMOMA's "Nonwestern Westerns" series. (Photo courtesy SFMOMA)
SFMOMA's "Nonwestern Westerns" series
Until they started falling out of fashion in the 1960s, Westerns were pretty much the bedrock of the American movie industry. Whole studios had been created to churn ‘em out like “Bronco Billy” Anderson’s in the East Bay. (Fremont’s Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum still shows silent films year-round in his honor.) The Great Train Robbery, considered the first real narrative movie using cross-cuts, close-ups and other then-innovative techniques, was a Western.
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