A selection of films set and/or made in the N.W state. This is the state of little Opal Whiteley and her nature diary.

Buster Keaton’s The General was filmed in Oregon; "The climax of the film includes a spectacular moment where a bridge (sabotaged by Johnnie) collapses as a railroad train crosses it. Keaton filmed the collapse in the conifer forest around the town of Cottage Grove, Oregon, using 500 extras from the Oregon National Guard. They all dressed up in Union uniforms and were filmed going left-to-right before changing into Confederate uniforms and being filmed going right-to-left.

The production company left the wreckage in the river bed after the scene was filmed. The wrecked locomotive became a minor tourist attraction for nearly twenty years. The metal of the train was salvaged for scrap during World War II."

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Timberline Lodge is a mountain lodge on the south side of Mount Hood in Oregon, about 60 miles (97 km) east of Portland. Built in the late 1930s, the National Historic Landmark sits at an elevation of 5,960 feet (1,817 m), within the Mount Hood National Forest and is accessible through the Mount Hood Scenic Byway. It is a popular tourist attraction, drawing more than a million visitors annually. It is noted in film for serving as the exterior of the Overlook Hotel in The Shining.


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I’m including a collection of abstract films by the avant-garde painter-film-maker Harry Smith, born Portland, Oregon.


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Not on Mubi:
Opal

A comprehensive list of OREGON FILMS

Oregon Film Museum

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People from Oregon


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“Today the folks are gone away from the house we do live in . They are gone a little way away, to the ranch-house where the grandpa does live. I sit on our steps and I do print. I like it — this house we do live in being at the edge of the near woods . So many little people do live in the near woods. I do have conversations with them. I found the near woods first day I did go explores. That was the next day after we were come here. All the way from the other logging camp in the beautiful mountains we came in a wagon . Two horses were in front of us. They walked in front of us all the way. 

When first we were come, we did live with some other people in the ranch-house that wasn’t all builded yet. After that we lived in a tent, and often when it did rain many raindrops came right through the tent. They did fall in patters on the stove and on the floor and on the table. Too, they did make the quilts on the beds some damp — but that didn’t matter much because they soon got dried hanging around the stove. 

By and by we were come from the tent to this lumber shanty . It has got a divide in it. One room we do have sleeps in. In the other room we do have breakfast and supper. Back of the house are some nice wood-rats. The most lovely of them all is Thomas Chatterton Jupiter Zeus . By the woodshed is a brook. It goes singing on. Its joy song does sing in my heart. Under the house live some mice. I give them bread-scraps to eat. Under the steps lives a toad. He and I — we are friends. I have named him. I call him Lucian Horace Ovid Virgil . 
  
Between the ranch-house and the house we live in is the singing creek where the willows grow. We have conversations. And there I do dabble my toes beside the willows. I feel the feels of gladness they do feel. And often it is I go from the willows to the meeting of the road . That is just in front of the ranch-house. There the road does have divides . It goes three ways. 

One way the road does go to the house of Sadie McKibben . It doesn’t stop when it gets to her house, but mostly I do. The road just goes on to the mill town a little way away. In its going it goes over a hill. Sometimes — the times Sadie McKibben isn’t at home — I do go with Brave Horatius to the top of the hill. We look looks down upon the mill town. Then we do face about and come again home. Always we make stops at the house of Sadie McKibben. Her house — it is close to the mill by the far woods . That mill makes a lot of noise. It can do two things at once. It makes the noises and also it does saw the logs into boards. About the mill do live some people, mostly menfolks. There does live the good man that wears gray neckties and is kind to mice."
(Opal Whiteley, beginning of diary)

A selection of films set and/or made in the N.W state. This is the state of little <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opal_Whiteley">Opal Whiteley</a> and her nature diary.
Buster Keaton&#8217;s The General was filmed in Oregon; &quot;The climax of the film includes a spectacular moment where a bridge (sabotaged by Johnnie) collapses as a railroad train crosses it. Keaton filmed the collapse in the conifer forest around the town of Cottage Grove, Oregon, using 500 extras from the Oregon National Guard. They all dressed up in Union uniforms and were filmed going left-to-right before changing into Confederate uniforms and being filmed going right-to-left.
The production company left the wreckage in the river bed after the scene was filmed. The wrecked locomotive became a minor tourist attraction for nearly twenty years. The metal of the train was salvaged for scrap during World War II.&quot;
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Timberline Lodge is a mountain lodge on the south side of Mount Hood in Oregon, about 60 miles (97 km) east of Portland. Built in the late 1930s, the National Historic Landmark sits at an elevation of 5,960 feet (1,817 m), within the Mount Hood National Forest and is accessible through the Mount Hood Scenic Byway. It is a popular tourist attraction, drawing more than a million visitors annually. It is noted in film for serving as the exterior of the Overlook Hotel in The Shining.
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I&#8217;m including a collection of abstract films by the avant-garde painter-film-maker <a href="http://mubi.com/cast_members/69667">Harry Smith</a>, born Portland, Oregon.
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Not on Mubi: 
<a href="http://www.opalthemovie.com/">Opal</a>
A comprehensive list of <a href="http://www.oregonfilm.org/history/">OREGON FILMS</a>
<a href="http://oregonfilmmuseum.com/">Oregon Film Museum</a>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Oregon">People from Oregon</a>
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&#8220;Today the folks are gone away from the house we do live in . They are gone a little way away, to the ranch-house where the grandpa does live. I sit on our steps and I do print. I like it &#8212; this house we do live in being at the edge of the near woods . So many little people do live in the near woods. I do have conversations with them. I found the near woods first day I did go explores. That was the next day after we were come here. All the way from the other logging camp in the beautiful mountains we came in a wagon . Two horses were in front of us. They walked in front of us all the way.
When first we were come, we did live with some other people in the ranch-house that wasn&#8217;t all builded yet. After that we lived in a tent, and often when it did rain many raindrops came right through the tent. They did fall in patters on the stove and on the floor and on the table. Too, they did make the quilts on the beds some damp &#8212; but that didn&#8217;t matter much because they soon got dried hanging around the stove.
By and by we were come from the tent to this lumber shanty . It has got a divide in it. One room we do have sleeps in. In the other room we do have breakfast and supper. Back of the house are some nice wood-rats. The most lovely of them all is Thomas Chatterton Jupiter Zeus . By the woodshed is a brook. It goes singing on. Its joy song does sing in my heart. Under the house live some mice. I give them bread-scraps to eat. Under the steps lives a toad. He and I &#8212; we are friends. I have named him. I call him Lucian Horace Ovid Virgil .
Between the ranch-house and the house we live in is the singing creek where the willows grow. We have conversations. And there I do dabble my toes beside the willows. I feel the feels of gladness they do feel. And often it is I go from the willows to the meeting of the road . That is just in front of the ranch-house. There the road does have divides . It goes three ways.
One way the road does go to the house of Sadie McKibben . It doesn&#8217;t stop when it gets to her house, but mostly I do. The road just goes on to the mill town a little way away. In its going it goes over a hill. Sometimes &#8212; the times Sadie McKibben isn&#8217;t at home &#8212; I do go with Brave Horatius to the top of the hill. We look looks down upon the mill town. Then we do face about and come again home. Always we make stops at the house of Sadie McKibben. Her house &#8212; it is close to the mill by the far woods . That mill makes a lot of noise. It can do two things at once. It makes the noises and also it does saw the logs into boards. About the mill do live some people, mostly menfolks. There does live the good man that wears gray neckties and is kind to mice.&quot; 
(Opal Whiteley, beginning of diary)

OREGON : THE STATE OF OPAL WHITELEY