Probing a Movie Mystery: Former History Museum archivist Judy Ellinghausen and retired dentist Tim Zellmer open a film showing humorist Will Rogers that sat in a northside basement untouched for more than half a century. Zellmer plans to get the film copied.
&Paul Snyder, a board member at The History Museum, inspects the film thought to be from 1925 or 1927, depicting what appears to be Will Rogers in Great Falls. Tim Zellmer brought the film to the museum for inspection by Great Falls historians on Wednesday. TRIBUNE PHOTO/RION SANDERS
PHOTO FROM HOLLYWOOD, NOT GREAT FALLS
Great Falls history buff Jim Combs speculated that a film showing artist Charlie Russell and humorist Will Rogers together might have been taken in Hollywood, rather than in Great Falls.
"It'd be fun to see it," Combs said. Combs noted Rogers visited Great Falls in 1927, the year after his friend Russell died, but he's not aware of Rogers visiting the Electric City before that.
According to Combs, a well-known photograph of Russell and Rogers sitting next to each other with hats on was taken on a movie set in Hollywood. He said some people mistakenly assume the photo was taken in Great Falls in front of the Mint Saloon.
Tribune photographs of portions of the film taken Wednesday show what appears to be the humorist Rogers in front of Russell's log cabin studio, and other scenes from Great Falls. But no frames of Russell himself were spotted. As a result, the film may actually depict Rogers' visit to Great Falls in 1927, without Russell himself in the film.
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