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Title: An Aficionado's View: The Latino Dimension of the Hopalong Cassidy Films.
Author : Bilingual Review
Release Date : January 01, 2003
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
Pages : * pages
Size : 220 KB

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I first got to know Hopalong Cassidy the way most people of my generation did: as a child, sitting in front of the TV set my parents had bought in the early 1950s, my eyes glued to the twelve-and-a-half-inch screen every Sunday evening when the local NBC station ran the weekly Hoppy movie starring William Boyd. Most of those films had been made before I was born. They were cut to shreds to fit a 60-minute time slot and to accommodate commercials, but during my grammar school years I watched them over and over. The credits told me that the Cassidy character came from books by someone named Clarence E. Mulford, but I couldn't have cared less. Until a quarter century later. By 1979 William Boyd was dead, Mulford was dead, Hopalong Cassidy as a popular hero was dead--so dead that no one had bothered to renew the copyrights on the first fifty-four "Hoppy" movies, all of which had fallen into the public domain--and I was a law professor in my middle thirties with a special interest in copyright issues. That spring I was asked to serve as an expert witness at the trial of an infringement suit. My job was to read the complete works of Mulford, screen the first 23 Hoppy films (the only ones directly involved in the litigation) and write what amounted to a book for the court. That was how I spent the summer of 1979. In December I flew to New York to testify. For reasons that only a tiny coterie of copyright experts would understand, the case became a disaster. But my six months of work had given me some priceless experience plus the raw material for a law journal article and for two books [The Films of Hopalong Cassidy (1988) and Bar-20: The Life of Clarence E. Mulford, Creator of Hopalong Cassidy (1993)]. It's mainly from these sources that I've written the present article, which discusses the Cassidy films with aspects or elements of interest to Latino audiences or to those who analyze Latino-focused content in westerns.