# JEROME ARIZONA GHOST TOWN 1960s SILENT TRAVEL FILM 46774

This well-made silent film, was made by Ray Winn, slightly assisted by Ken Mershon. It was shot on a Bolex 16mm camera. Originally intended to be a short film for WGBH, the project was never completed -- although a version with a classical soundtrack was created at one time (it is now lost). The film shows Jerome, Arizona and the surrounding area as it appeared in the late 1960s or early 1970s when it was still considered a ghost town. Jerome is a town in the Black Hills of Yavapai County in the U.S. state of Arizona. Founded in the late 19th century on Cleopatra Hill overlooking the Verde Valley, it is more than 5,000 feet (1,500 m) above sea level. It is about 100 miles (160 km) north of Phoenix along State Route 89A between Sedona and Prescott. Supported in its heyday by rich copper mines, it was home to more than 10,000 people in the 1920s. As of the 2010 census, its population was 444. The town owes its existence mainly to two ore bodies that formed about 1.75 billion years ago along a ring fault in the caldera of an undersea volcano. Tectonic plate movements, plate collisions, uplift, deposition, erosion, and other geologic processes eventually exposed the tip of one of the ore bodies and pushed the other close to the surface, both near Jerome. In the late 19th century, the United Verde Mine, developed by William A. Clark, extracted ore bearing copper, gold, silver, and other metals from the larger of the two. The United Verde Extension (UVX) Mine, owned by James…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Travel, Silent, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/46774JeromeArizonaARayWinn)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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