Day 37 (D-24) Monument Valley: a movie director, a movie star (a video to watch)

QUESTIONS FOR A CHAMPION!  Do you know the answers to these questions concerning Monument Valley?  Read the questions first, then watch the video to find the answers.  No subtitles, but I think you can find most of the answers...or, if necessary, pause, repeat or slow down the speed of the recording.

1.  What's the name of the American film director who shot many films in Monument Valley?

2.  What was the name of the first movie he shot there and who was the actor to become a famous movie star after appearing in this film?

3.  How many films did this movie director make in Monument Valley?

4.  Did the American settlers come to Monument Valley?  Whose territory is it? 

5.  What do they say about the landscape in a Western?

6.  Who convinced this director to come to Monument Valley to make his 1939 film there?




7.  Who were hired to play the roles of Comanches and Apaches?

8.  Why did this film director pay a tribal medicine man?

9.  What do some movie buffs call Monument Valley?  

10.  What is Monument Valley for the Navajo?

11.  How do the Navajo call Monument Valley?

12.  What are the names of some of the buttes in Monument Valley?

13.  How does the Navajo women living in Monument Valley make a living?

14.  How many visitors come to Monument Valley every year?

15.  Where do 70% of the visitors come from?


EPIC WESTERNS HAVE GONE OUT OF STYLE...BUT MONUMENT VALLEY HASN'T.

A list of some of the films shot in Monument Valley:
Stagecoach (1939)
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949)
The Searchers (1956) John Wayne with Natalie Wood (Do you know the name of the film in French?)
How the West Was Won (1962)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Back to the Future: Part 3 (1990)
Forrest Gump (1994)

I've given you work to do today.  Have you answered all the questions?  Did you enjoy the video?

My best,
Jane
--movie buff =  a person who loves cinema