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karl l. & jack f. burk

Karl Burk and his son, Jack Burk came from Washington to operate the Baker theaters in the early 1920's. They remodeled the Baker Opera House extensively and reopened it in 1925 as The Clarick, a combination of the names of their female family members. 

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The Burks sold the Baker Theaters to Guy Haselton in 1928 and moved to Seattle to work as salesmen for the film studios. 

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On his WWII draft registration, Karl Burk, age 55, states that he works for Noel Lester's traveling theatrical company, which appears to be a circus.

guy d. haselton

Guy Doolittle Haselton was born in 1888 in Wisconsin. He moved to Montana in 1910 and operated a fruit orchard and a news stand. During WW1 he served as an ambulance operator in France. In August, 1920, after his return from France, he moved to Missoula and  began operation of the Rialto Theater. In 1928, Haselton and a business associate from Missoula, Guy Gaines, moved to Baker City, Oregon to operate the city's three theaters: The Clarick, The Empire and The Orpheum. 

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Haselton's operation of the Baker Theaters was short lived. He sold these theaters to the Buckmillers early in 1929, mere months after purchasing them, and moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a filmmaker. His partner, Guy Gaines, moved to Washington. 

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Haselton's greatest passion in life was traveling and exploring nature, and he made films to share his experiences with others. He traveled almost constantly most of his life from the time he was a very young man. Immediately after selling the Baker theaters, he left for an extended trip to Hawaii. In the 1930's he began producing documentary films using the footage taken on his travels.

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His residence for years in Los Angeles was the old Christie Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard, the present location of the Church of Scientology. Later, he resided at 7936 Santa Monica Boulevard, the current location of the Lee Strasburg Theatre and Film Institute.

Haselton's Filmography

  • Park Avenue Logger 1930

  • Quake! 1933

  • Hummingbird Homelife 1936

  • Redwood Saga 1940

  • More Dangerous Than Dynamite 1941

  • Glacier Park Studies 1948

  • The Blooming Desert 1948

  • Yosemite-- End of the Rainbow 1948

  • Color in Nature pre-1965

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LEWIS MOOMAW

Lewis Moomaw was born in Baker City in 1889. He moved to Portland as a young man and began a filmmaking career. After making his 1926 film, "Flames" he moved to San Diego, where he became a farmer. He died in 1980. 

MOOMAW's Filmography

  • Golden Trail 1920

  • The Deceiver 1920

  • The Chechahcos 1924

  • The Greatest Thing 1925

  • Under the Rouge 1925

  • Flames 1926

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