{"podcast":{"title":"Forgotten Hollywood","slug":"forgotten-hollywood-2166799","podcast_index_feed_id":2166799,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/4763854/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/forgotten-hollywood--4763854","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/ec8083e4a4f7698c370da245ef50e1bf.jpg","author":"JLJ Media","episode_count":452,"summary":"Producer/Creator/Host Doug Hess takes you on a journey back in time and shares with you pieces. of Hollywood you may or may not have known about!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-19T20:20:09.230544+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/forgotten-hollywood-2166799"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 409- \"The First Movie Studio in Texas: Gaston Melies's Star Film Ranch\".","slug":"episode-409-the-first-movie-studio-in-texas-gaston-melies-s-star-film-ranch","published_at":"2026-03-05T07:33:32+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/forgotten-hollywood-2166799/episode-409-the-first-movie-studio-in-texas-gaston-melies-s-star-film-ranch","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/forgotten-hollywood-2166799","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-409-the-first-movie-studio-in-texas-gaston-melies-s-star-film-ranch--70274091","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/70274091/409.mp3","summary":"In this episode I spoke with authors Kathy Fuller and Frank Thompson regarding their book \"The First Movie Studio in Texas: Gaston Melies's Star Film Ranch\". In 1910, the Méliès Star Film Company of Manhattan set up a moving-picture studio outside San Antonio, the first in Texas. Determined to make the most authentic Westerns possible, the company filmed there for a little over a year. In that brief time, it created more than seventy single-reel films, leaving a lasting mark on moviemaking.","meta_description":"In this episode I spoke with authors Kathy Fuller and Frank Thompson regarding their book \"The First Movie Studio in Texas: Gaston Melies's Star Film Ranc…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1422,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/forgotten-hollywood-2166799/episodes/episode-409-the-first-movie-studio-in-texas-gaston-melies-s-star-film-ranch/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/forgotten-hollywood-2166799/episode-409-the-first-movie-studio-in-texas-gaston-melies-s-star-film-ranch.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}