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[00:01.55]Lesson 21
[00:03.62]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,
[00:27.38]for unlike Gary Cooper and John Wayne he appeared in nothing but Westerns.
[00:33.82]From 1914 to 1924 he was supreme and unchallenged.
[00:40.72]It was Hart who created the basic formula of the Western film,
[00:45.71]and devised the protagonist he played in every film he made,
[00:50.40]the good-bad man, the accidental, noble outlaw,
[00:54.76]or the honest, but framed cowboy, or the sheriff made suspect by vicious gossip;
[01:01.59]in short, the individual in conflict with himself and his frontier environment.
[01:08.12]Unlike most of his contemporaries in Hollywood,
[01:10.84]Hart actually knew something of the old West.
[01:14.11]He had lived in it as a child when it was already disappearing,
[01:18.82]and his hero was firmly rooted in his memories and experiences,
[01:23.72]and in both the history and the mythology of the vanished frontier,
[01:29.09]And although no period or place in American history has been more absurdly romanticized,
[01:35.08]myth and reality did join hands in at least one arena,