Walt Disney's Old Yeller..some pics of the farm....

[LPJR]

I asked my son if he wanted to take a ride when he got off the bus today to try a couple of fields in Walpack for a pheasant or two. Before he answered he had his vest and hat on, lol.....We hit a couple of fields near the Roy bridge and didn't see any birds so we went for a ride out towards the fields at Hainey's Mill..

 

The pics below are of the farm/land where some parts of the 1957 Disney movie "Old Yeller" were filmed as I was told since I was my son's age...... The sky, combined with the mist and steam coming from the Big Flatbrook, was simply amazing as the sun was setting.

 

The last pic with the old white tree was taken on Saturday during the opener. It has been the white "ghost tree" for as long as I can remember and is at the far end of the farm.

 

No birds seen, but we had a great time. Was very cool to see the valley drying out from the rains today.

Edited November 15, 2016 by LPJR

[gobblergetter]

Lived in Blairstown area my whole life and never heard that before.

However I do remember the filming of ' Friday the thirteenth'.

[Rusty]

Great pictures LPJR.  And you better have cried when Old Yeller died or I'm never speaking to you again.  

[LPJR]

Great pictures LPJR.  And you better have cried when Old Yeller died or I'm never speaking to you again.  

 

We will always talk Rusty.......  

[DBuck]

Very Nice pictures but according to tcm.com, the movie was  Tightly constructed around a series of episodic vignettes and directed with a sure hand by Disney mainstay Robert Stevenson, Old Yeller was filmed at the 700 acre Golden Oak Ranch in the Santa Clarita Valley, thirty miles north of Disney.

[TroutandBucks]

Some great pictures!! 

[bigfish525]

Shane, say it aint true.

[NorthNJHunter]

Very nice! Cool pics!

[LPJR]

Very Nice pictures but according to tcm.com, the movie was  Tightly constructed around a series of episodic vignettes and directed with a sure hand by Disney mainstay Robert Stevenson, Old Yeller was filmed at the 700 acre Golden Oak Ranch in the Santa Clarita Valley, thirty miles north of Disney.

 

Nice.

 

Like I said, I was always told some parts of the land/barns were filmed here for it..... 

[Haskell_Hunter]

Very Nice pictures but according to tcm.com, the movie was  Tightly constructed around a series of episodic vignettes and directed with a sure hand by Disney mainstay Robert Stevenson, Old Yeller was filmed at the 700 acre Golden Oak Ranch in the Santa Clarita Valley, thirty miles north of Disney.

 

Brutal.  This is like telling someone there isn't a Santa Claus; shattering the blissful ignorance of childhood with the cold, harsh reality of adulthood.

[MTH]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050798/locations

 

IMDB says California too......Not Jersey.....beautiful pics though!

[LPJR]

All good info guys. Thanks!

 

Looks like I need to educate one of the family members who told me that parts were filmed there when I was younger.........      

[hemlock]

The only picture I have of me watching old yeller is this one. And that was when my dad broke the sad news to me during the movie.

[BowhunterNJ]

Nice pictures LPJR!

[_X7]

It could have been made in New Jersey in those days before the urban sprawl. north of Route 80 was as sparse as it gets in the western part of the state. I read the book in grade school where only your imagination painted the scenery.