For more than 80 years, Hollywood filmmakers have been shooting movies in Kane County, Utah. Cecil B. DeMille featured the region’s exceptional landscape in his 1939 picture Union Pacific. The great German director Fritz Lang came to this section of Southern Utah to make Western Union. Television programs like Gunsmoke, The Lone Ranger, and Have Gun-Will Travel were filmed here, too. To increase awareness of Kane County’s important history, Stephen B. Armstrong made a short promotional film titled Return to Little Hollywood, which focuses on the area’s cinematic heritage, providing audiences with the opportunity to view footage of locations and sets used in past film and television productions.

The creators of Return to Little Hollywood are Stephen Armstrong (Director), Christina Schultz (Executive Producer), and Chris Onstott (Director of Photography).

Steve Armstrong, the project’s director and writer, is an Assistant Professor of English at Dixie State College. He received his Ph.D. (Creative Writing) from Florida State University in 2004. He is the author of Pictures About Extremes: The Films of John Frankenheimer (McFarland, 2008). His writing about movies has appeared in several publications, most notably Film Quarterly and Film Score Monthly.

Christina Schultz is the film’s executive producer. Currently, she serves as Vice President of Institutional Advancement at Dixie State College of Utah. She graduated with her M.A. in Communications Management from the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California in 1987.

Chris Onstott is both director of photography and video editor for the Return to Little Hollywood production. He worked as a photographer at The Spectrum & Daily News in St. George from 2006 - 2009. Chris recently relocated to Portland, Oregon, where he continues his career as a photographer and documentary filmmaker.

Director/Producer: Stephen B. Armstrong (St. George, Utah, USA)
Location: DSC Campus – Eccles Mainstage Time: Sun., Sept. 19, 4:00 p.m. Buy Tickets
Category: Short
Length: 38 min