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Shane Shane (1953) was the first bigscreen (Vista-vision) color western film ever produced. (That format offered bigger, brighter images, but only slightly wider than standard films) It tells the story of a gunfighter who comes to a recently settled farm area near a quiet town and fights for the farmers against the hard-bitten cattle men who control the majority of the land. It was based on a 1949 novel by Jack Schaefer; some of the story tied to Wyoming's Johnson County War. The physical setting is the high plains near Jackson Hole WY, with the spectacular Grand Teton Massiff looming in the near distance. The beauty of this film's setting was unprecedented in earlier western films. The music was stereophonic, and lent an additional grandeur to the Vista-vision presentation.
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