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Tragedy on Set: "Across the Border"
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The deaths of Grace McHugh and Owen Carter on the set of "Across the Border" are two of the earliest - if not the first - human deaths to occur on set while filming...and they never should have happened. In fact, filming had already wrapped on the production. There was just one problem: one of the scenes had been damaged in the development process so they had to reshoot it. No big deal, right? Wrong. What was meant to be a quick afternoon turned into tragedy, ending the lives of two rising stars.
Episode Sources:
“Grace McHugh, Golden Girl is Drowned” Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection, July 2, 1914
Royal Gorge Region: Motion Picture Production
Selig Polyscope Company, Chicagology
Moving Picture World (Jul-Sep 1914) by New York, Chalmers Publishing Company, p. 438
“Voices in the Waters” by Gary Shoe and Tony Ortega, 2017
For further reading: HOLLYWOOD, COLORADO by David Emrich, HOLLYWOOD OF THE ROCKIES by Michael J. Spencer
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Manage episode 427841010 series 3372828
The deaths of Grace McHugh and Owen Carter on the set of "Across the Border" are two of the earliest - if not the first - human deaths to occur on set while filming...and they never should have happened. In fact, filming had already wrapped on the production. There was just one problem: one of the scenes had been damaged in the development process so they had to reshoot it. No big deal, right? Wrong. What was meant to be a quick afternoon turned into tragedy, ending the lives of two rising stars.
Episode Sources:
“Grace McHugh, Golden Girl is Drowned” Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection, July 2, 1914
Royal Gorge Region: Motion Picture Production
Selig Polyscope Company, Chicagology
Moving Picture World (Jul-Sep 1914) by New York, Chalmers Publishing Company, p. 438
“Voices in the Waters” by Gary Shoe and Tony Ortega, 2017
For further reading: HOLLYWOOD, COLORADO by David Emrich, HOLLYWOOD OF THE ROCKIES by Michael J. Spencer
Join our Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/horrorwoodpodcast
Follow us!
IG, FB, FB Group, Twitter, TikTok
Send us an email:
Creeptastic theme music by:
Nicholas Davio - nicholasdavio.com, @mr.nick.davio, @huron_coast
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