Movie men Phil Lang (left) and Storm V. Boyd at Beale's Cut, looking south, probably 1907.
Original caption: "Old stage coach road and its cut through the mountains — a site of many a hold-up."
According to contributor Tanner Manceaux,
Boyd, Lang and Paul Hurst ("The Ox-Bow Incident," 1943) "traveled from New York,
California and Jacksonville, (writing) screenplays, acting, directing and staring in
Kalem's films in the very early 1900s."
Kalem Co. was a pioneer film company that turned out 420 titles from about 1907-17.
According to Manceaux, its biggest money maker was comedian Lloyd Hamilton of "Ham & Bud."
Boyd, born in Watertown, New York (date unk.) was the assistant director on 28 of those
titles in 1912-13 and acted in one, "The Grim Tale of War" (1913).
Lang, born c. 1886 in Xenia, Ohio, wrote four screenplays from 1914-19. Both Boyd and Lang
died in 1919 — Lang on Jan. 24 in New York City; Boyd on Oct. 13 in Syracuse,
New York.
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