0001|                          HOUSE MEMORIAL 13
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                           JAMES G. TAYLOR
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0010|                              A MEMORIAL
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0011|     REQUESTING RECOGNITION OF THE TREMENDOUS POSITIVE IMPACT THE
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0012|     FILM INDUSTRY HAS HAD ON NEW MEXICO FOR THE LAST ONE HUNDRED
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0013|     YEARS.
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0014|     
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0015|          WHEREAS, the year 1998 marks the one hundredth year since
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0016|     the first known motion picture was filmed in New Mexico, the
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0017|     Edison company's Indian Day School (1898); and
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0018|          WHEREAS, the years 1912-1930 brought pioneers in the film
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0019|     industry to New Mexico, especially Albuquerque, Las Vegas and
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0020|     Silver City; pioneers such as D.W. Griffith, Romaine Fielding,
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0021|     Mack Sennett, Mary Pickford, Tom Mix, Robert Flaherty and King
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0022|     Vidor; and
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0023|          WHEREAS, in the decades of the forties, fifties and early
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0024|     sixties the western became a popular film genre with many
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0025|     films made in the Gallup area; and
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0001|          WHEREAS, in 1968 the New Mexico film commission was
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0002|     established under the administration of Governor David Cargo,
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0003|     one of the first state funded agencies of this kind in the
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0004|     nation created to promote location filming outside of
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0005|     Hollywood; and
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0006|          WHEREAS, in the thirty-year history of the film
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0007|     commission, currently known as the New Mexico film division, a
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0008|     branch of the economic development department, many
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0009|     distinguished filmmakers have come to New Mexico including: 
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0010|     Robert Redford, Lawrence Kasdan, John Carpenter, Sidney Lumet,
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0011|     Billy Wilder and Elia Kazan; and
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0012|          WHEREAS, the current year brings a total number of three
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0013|     hundred feature films (for theatrical release), televison
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0014|     movies and series and many hundreds of commercials, music
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0015|     videos, documentaries and other media projects filmed in New
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0016|     Mexico; and
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0017|          WHEREAS, the film industry has provided tremendous
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0018|     benefits to the economy of the entire state, developing a
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0019|     highly skilled labor pool, a talent (acting) pool and a
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0020|     business infrastructure that have created roughly one billion
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0021|     dollars ($1,000,000,000) in economic impact in New Mexico over
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0022|     the past decade alone;
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0023|          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF
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0024|     REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that it applaud the
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0025|     efforts of the New Mexico film division of the economic
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0001|     development department, recognize the tremendous positive
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0002|     impact the film industry has had on the state's economy and
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0003|     celebrate the significant role the state has played in its
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0004|     100-year history of filmmaking; and
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0005|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this memorial shall
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0006|     be transmitted to the New Mexico film division of the economic
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0007|     development department.
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