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The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club is coming to the San Francisco International Airport Commission Aviation Library / Louis A. Turpen Aviation Museum on February 4th. Director Amanda Pope and Producer / Writer Nick Spark will be in attendance at this special event along with special guests.
This screening is sponsored by San Francisco Airport Museums, and is FREE to the public.
Click HERE to read more about the Museum.
WHEN: February 4th, 2010 @ 6 p.m.
WHERE: San Francisco International Airport, International Terminal, Level 3 (You will NOT have to go through security to attend).
COST: FREE.
HOW TO GET THERE / FREE PARKING: Take the BART to the Airport, and walk to the International Terminal, Level 3. If you are driving, free parking is available. To get it you will need to bring your Airport garage parking ticket to the museum for validation.
TO RSVP OR FOR MORE INFORMATION: RSVP is appreciated but not mandatory. Contact Gabriel Phung, San Francisco Airport Museums, 650-821-9911 or gabriel.phung(at)flysfo.com. For directions within the Airport use the locator at http://www.sfoarts.org/about/
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On January 9, 2010 the arts commission of the city of Mission Viejo, California will host a special screening of The Legend of Pancho Barnes to benefit the KOCE-TV Foundation. This exciting event represents our first Orange County screening, and a chance to recognize the outstanding work of public television station, and our affiliate in this production, KOCE-TV.
On February 25, 2010, Pancho Barnes returns to Pasadena, California for a benefit fundraiser for the KOCE-TV Foundation, Heritage Square and the Pasadena Museum of History. Both Heritage Square and the Pasadena Museum are outstanding non-profits which educate and promote the love of history.
You can purchase tickets to either event on our website by clicking on the "Screenings" button.
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The Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum was the site of another awesome event (see Facebook for all the photos), and joining us for all the fun was Shawna Kelly. Shawna is the granddaughter of B.H. "Daredevil" Delay, who was one of the pioneer aerial stuntmen. Delay is credited with being the first stuntman to, get this, transition from the saddle of a horse to the front seat of a biplane in flight. He later did an update going from an automobile seat to an airplane cockpit. Anyway, Shawna is a pilot herself and the author of Aviators in Early Hollywood, a neat picture book from Arcadia Press that is chock full of photos of stunt pilots and their exploits, and yes Pancho is in there! You might want to consider it for your holiday shopping list, as it's a whole heck of a lot of fun and the photos are simply gorgeous. (Incidentally, Arcadia is the publisher of Michael Patris' book about the Mt. Lowe Railway -- another stocking stuffer for you).
Before the screening, Museum Director Dorothy Bradley and Michael Bonham provided a tour of the Niles Essanay Museum. It's located in an historic district near where Charlie Chaplin shot "The Kid", inside a storefront that once housed a Nickelodeon.
Michael introduced me at the event, and I in turn introduced both Pancho and Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels. It was nice to have an excuse to talk a bit about Pancho's career in the movie business. She began before she was 20, working as an animal trainer on the silent Rin Tin Tin feature Lighthouse by the Sea. It was only natural that once she developed a passion for aviation, she'd find a way to combine movie-making with airplanes. Even after her flying days were over, Pancho remained connected to Hollywood. In the short time it operated, half a dozens movies were shot at or around her Rancho Oro Verde, including Westward the Women, Johnny Stoolpigeon and the TV show Cowboy Slim.
Photo (above): Nick Spark (l) poses with Shawna Kelly and a bunch of 99's women pilots who came out for the screening. Michael Bonham is visible second from the left, in the rear.