_________image_________ Moving Pictures In The Park October 1923 was definitly a highlight in Wainwright history. Hollywood film crews set up in Buffalo Park to record scenes from “The Last Frontier.” Park staff and 150 Indians from Hobema participated. As actors, they staged a pow-wow, fought American cavalry, and rode in the “hunt." Horsemen drove 4000 toward hidden cameras and riflemen. One brave cameraman from Calgary, William Oliver, even resorted to photography from a hole, covered by a grate, right in the path of the stampeding animals. As Part of the movie, 34 bison were killed, and incidental amount compared to the near 2000 slaughtered later that year at the abbatoir. The film crew’s six-day stay swelled the Wainwright community’s coffers as well as the Canadian government’s. The Department of the Interior received $2500 for the film privileges, $250 for each buffalo killed, and cuttings from the film for their own visual footage. It promised a reaction to the actual killings were less than favorable. In later years segments of other movies, “The Covered Wagon,” “Flaming Frontier,” and “The Thundering Herd,” were filmed at the Park.