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Western Films in Arizona

by | May 23, 2017 | True West Blog

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Theaters were a popular form of entertainment in early Arizona and the first moving pictures came to the towns in the 1890’s. They were shown wherever a paying crowd could be gathered.  After Charles M. Clark, of Jerome won a film projector from a traveling salesman in a card game, he took it, along with some films to towns like Ash Fork, Williams, and Flagstaff where he held one-


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