Western Movies

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Rules

• Your movie must tell a story. It may be true or fictional, but must have characters and a plot.
• If you create the movie using Macromedia Flash include as many as possible of the following: digital images or drawings, multiple layers, symbols, motion, motion tweening, and sound.
• The movie should be between 20 seconds and 5 minutes long.
• The movie must be set in the Old West and include characters like cowboys/girls, Native Americans, and/or pioneers.

Story Ideas

The old invention chamber is fresh out of plot ideas? Here are some classic Westerns to get the creative juices flowing:

Books

Riders of the Purple Sage - Zane Grey

The Big Sky - A.B. Guthrie

The Apple Dumpling Game - Jack Bickham

Movies

Destry Rides Again,  1930.

The Ox-Bow Incident, 1940.

Ask your librarian for even more ideas.

Graphics

Afraid of drawing? Don't despair - these free graphics will help you out. Just be sure to list the urls to any graphics you use in your movie credits.

Art by Cheryl Western – copyright, but can use & alter with link back to her site.

Heartland Art – free with link back

Little B&S Ranch

Cowboy Clip Art

Desperado’s Robber’s Roost – includes clip art, fonts and sound effects

Clips Ahoy – look under Eras: 1880-1910 for generic pioneer images and People: Cultures for some Native American and Hispanic images

Designed to a T – free with a link back