December 17, 2014 08:06PM
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Hi Chris! I should have specified the narrow gauge. "The Limited Mail" was a Warner Bros. film starring Monte Blue, who made many railroad films during the silent era and some after sound came in.
There were actually two earlier production companies that had studios in Canon City. Selig Polyscope, which became one of the earliest Hollywood studios, operated in Canon City from 1911 to 1913. The made around 35 films during that time period. Tom Mix, who later became a major star of Westerns in Hollywood, appeared in several of those films. The Colorado Motion Picture Company was founded in Denver in 1913 by a group that included a former employee of Selig Polyscope. Canon City offered incentives to relocate there, which they did in January 1914. They only made movies there until the fall of 1914 before going out of business. During that time, they produced something less than 10 films. Both companies featured Rio Grande standard gauge trains in their stories, shot at the RG depot and in the Royal Gorge. None of these films are known to exist.
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