Crescent Moon Ranch Water Wheel
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Crescent Moon Ranch Water Wheel
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture & Enhancement
Description
The old buildings and water wheel are what remains of Crescent Moon Ranch, a settlement that started here back in the late 1800's. The Crescent Moon Ranch Picnic Area at Red Rock Crossing is one of the most photographed scenes in the southwest, towering Cathedral Rock reflected in the waters of Oak Creek at Red Rock Crossing.
Sedona played host to more than sixty Hollywood productions from the first years of movies into the 1970s. The small town, which served as a kind of microcosm of Hollywood history, sits about 120 miles north of Phoenix, nestled between thousand-foot-high walls of stone in lushly forested Oak Creek Canyon and the wide open space of the Verde Valley, and it was the diversity of this unspoiled landscape that made it such an ideal location to shoot outdoor scenes.
Stretching as far back as 1923, Sedona's signature red rocks were a fixture in major Hollywood productions-including enduring favorites such as Johnny Guitar, Angel and the Badman, Desert Fury, Blood on the Moon, and 3:10 to Yuma-but typically were identified to audiences as the terrain of Texas, California, Nevada, and even Canadian border territory. For fifty years, this picturesque desert outpost quietly played host to Hollywood legends in the making, yet the town is rarely found in standard histories of the movies.
Image copyright 2018 Jon Burch Photography
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July 27th, 2018
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