Movie Ranch
The park, when a movie ranch was known as the Fox Ranch and Century Ranch during its ownership by 20th Century Fox, has been used as a location in dozens of films, starting with a number of Tarzan movies:
- Tarzan Escapes (1936), Tarzan's Revenge (1938), Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939)
- Blockade (1938)
- Full Confession (1939)
- How Green Was My Valley (1941)
- My Friend Flicka (1943)
- Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
- Viva Zapata! (1952)
- Between Heaven and Hell (1956)
- The Defiant Ones (1958)
- The Second Time Around (1961)
- Posse from Hell (1961)
- The Sand Pebbles (1966)
- Planet of the Apes (1968), Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
- The Towering Inferno (1974) For miniature exteriors of a fictitious skyscraper.
- Logan's Run (1976)
- Masters of the Universe (1987)
- Pleasantville (1998)
- The Hunter's Moon (1999)
- Secretary (2002)
The park was also a key filming location for the M*A*S*H series, both for the feature film and the subsequent television series. The landscape was particularly seen in the opening credits for the show as helicopters carrying wounded approach the hospital with the recognizable Goat Buttes in the background. The exact location of the site is 34°05′47.43″N 118°44′39.39″W / 34.0965083°N 118.744275°W / 34.0965083; -118.744275.
Other television programs that used the park to pass for a post-apocalyptic earth were Planet of the Apes and the children's program Ark II. This was also a location for Robin Hood: Men in Tights where the Goat Buttes are seen in the background of the final wedding scene.
The park is still used for occasional filming.
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