Editing How the West Was Won (film) (section)

===Shooting===
Filming started in May 1961 by John Ford in [[Paducah, Kentucky]]. Producer Bernard Smith said, "It is essential for our purposes that virtually the whole movie be shot outdoors. Throughout the movie, one of the basic themes is to show little people against a vast country – huge deserts, endless plains, towering mountains, broad rivers. We want to capture the spirit of adventure, the restless spirit that led these men and women across the country in [the] face of many difficulties and dangers."<ref name="new2" />

After Ford finished his segment, Hathaway took over on location.<ref name="new2">{{Cite news|title=OUT 'WEST' IN CINERAMA|author=HOWARD, T. P.|date=June 18, 1961|work=[[The New York Times]]|id={{ProQuest|115280725}}}}</ref> Hathaway called Ford's segment "a little stagey".<ref name="hen">{{cite magazine|magazine=Take One|first=Scott|last=Eyman|title='I made movies' an interview with Henry Hathaway|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_take-one_september-october-1974_5_1/page/8/mode/1up|date=September–October 1974|page=12}}</ref>

Parts of the film were shot in [[Oljato–Monument Valley, Utah|Monument Valley, Utah]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=D'Arc|first1=James V.|title=When Hollywood came to town: a history of moviemaking in Utah|date=2010|publisher=Gibbs Smith|location=Layton, Utah|isbn=978-1-4236-0587-4|edition=1st}}</ref> and in [[Wildwood Regional Park]] in [[Thousand Oaks, California]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.vcstar.com/news/local/conejo-valley/locally-filmed-westerns-butch-cassidy-gunsmoke-part-of-conejo-film-fest-ep-1367023848-351101171.html|title=Locally filmed Westerns 'Butch Cassidy,' 'Gunsmoke' part of Conejo film fest|website=www.vcstar.com|access-date=March 3, 2019|archive-date=February 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160206035407/http://www.vcstar.com/news/local/conejo-valley/locally-filmed-westerns-butch-cassidy-gunsmoke-part-of-conejo-film-fest-ep-1367023848-351101171.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.toacorn.com/articles/conejo-film-fest-highlights-westerns/|title=Conejo film fest highlights Westerns|date=November 12, 2015|website=Thousand Oaks Acorn}}</ref>

Ford complained about having to dress such huge sets, as Cinerama photographed a much wider view than did the standard single-camera process to which Hollywood directors were accustomed. Director Henry Hathaway was quoted as saying, "That Goddamned Cinerama; do you know a waist shot is as close as you can get with that thing?"<ref name="Take One 1976 p. 11">{{cite book | title=Take One | publisher=Unicorn Pub. | issue=v. 5 | year=1976 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BpYHAQAAIAAJ | access-date=September 14, 2018 | page=11|quote=That Goddamned Cinerama; do you know that a waist shot is as close as you can get with that thing?}}</ref>

A more difficult problem was that filming required that the actors be artificially positioned out of dramatic and emotional frame and out of synchronization with one another. Only when the three-print Cinerama process was projected upon a Cinerama screen did the positions and emotions of the actors synchronize, such as normal eye contact or emotional harmony between actors in a dramatic sequence. Because of the nature of Cinerama, if the film were shown in flat-screen projection, it would appear as if the actors made no eye contact. One brief scene of Mexican soldiers was sourced by John Wayne from his [[The Alamo (1960 film)|1960 version]] of ''The Alamo''.

Stuntman Bob Morgan, husband of [[Yvonne De Carlo]], was seriously injured and lost a leg during a break in filming a gunfight on a moving train while filming the Outlaws portion. Chains holding logs on a flatbed car broke, crushing Morgan as he crouched beside them.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/westwon.htm |title=How the West Was Won |date=August 19, 2007 |publisher=Snopes.com |access-date=May 14, 2014}}</ref>

In a scene in which George Peppard's character reminisces about his late father, Peppard improvises with an imitation of James Stewart's voice. Ford initially objected, but Peppard felt that it was important in such a long, sprawling film to remind the audience which character his father was supposed to be.

Hathaway later said that making the film was "goddam trouble. They had an idiot for a producer and [[Sol Siegel]] was drunk most of the time. We spent so much money on the picture they almost decided not to do the last part. We had a meeting, and I said, 'You can't quit. You've got to show how the West was won. The West was won when the law took over'."<ref>{{cite book|last=Davis|first=Ronald L.|page=[https://archive.org/details/justmakingmovies00davi/page/150 150]|title=Just Making Movies|url=https://archive.org/details/justmakingmovies00davi|url-access=registration|year=2005|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|isbn=9781578066902 }}</ref>