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[00:00.58]Lesson 21
[00:02.87]William S.Hart and the early 'Western' film
[00:13.65]How did William Hart's childhood prepare him for his acting role in Western films?
[00:22.05]William S.Hart was, perhaps, the greatest of all Western stars,
[00:29.56]for unlike Gary Cooper and John Wayne he appeared in nothing but Westerns.
[00:36.57]From 1914 to 1924 he was supreme and unchallenged.
[00:43.99]It was Hart who created the basic formula of the Western film,
[00:48.96]and devised the protagonist he played in every film he made,
[00:53.95]the good-bad man, the accidental, noble outlaw,
[00:58.84]or the honest, but framed cowboy, or the sheriff made suspect by vicious gossip;
[01:06.09]in short, the individual in conflict with himself and his frontier environment.
[01:13.78]Unlike most of his contemporaries in Hollywood,
[01:17.06]Hart actually knew something of the old West.
[01:21.02]He had lived in it as a child when it was already disappearing,
[01:25.00]and his hero was firmly rooted in his memories and experiences,
[01:30.03]and in both the history and the mythology of the vanished frontier,
[01:35.67]And although no period or place in American history has been more absurdly romanticized,
[01:43.23]myth and reality did join hands in at least one arena,