The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), Kitty Foyle (1940), Citizen Kane (1941), Cat People (1942), Murder, My Sweet (1944), Dick Tracy film noir series (1945-1947), It's a Wonderful Life (1946) (Bedford Falls),They Live by Night (1948), and many more. In 1953 Dragnet was the last project to film on the ranch for an NBC 1954 broadcast of an episode entitled "The Big Producer" in which the crumbling lot played the part of a fictitious "Westside Studio". Standing sets exhibited on this particular Dragnet program were a ranch security gate entrance with a background church and house facades ('George Bailey' wrecked his car there during a snow storm in It's a Wonderful Life 1946), a cocktail lounge exterior on Modern Street, stucco desert mountain range used in Stagecoach (1939), ocean tank & sky backdrop used in Sinbad the Sailor (1947), Notre Dame de Paris Carre built for The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), and (the very first sets ever built on the ranch) the Academy Award-winning western town from Cimarron (1931). The ranch property was sold in 1954 to the Encino Park housing development. After all those unique themed sets were bulldozed in 1954, the 'Encino Village' subdivision was built on the property with modern home designs by architect Martin Stern, Jr. Will Rogers State Historic Park The former estate of American humorist Will Rogers: with his historic residence, equestrian ranch, and regulation polo field; are now within the Will Rogers State Historic Park beside Rustic Canyon in Pacific Palisades. While not dedicated to location shoots in his era or now, the property has been used for movie, TV, and print ad filming since his death. Located in the Santa Monica Mountains in western Los Angeles, the property was given to the state in 1944, and is open to the public. Extensive restoration was underway in 2010. Some filming has been done at the park over recent years, such as scenes for Mailbu Road, released in 2019, but it was closed indefinitely to filming because of fires in the area in November 2018. Newer movie ranches Santa Clarita ranches According to the L.A. Times there were about 10 movie ranches in that valley at the time, including Melody Ranch, Blue Cloud Movie Ranch, the Golden Oak Ranch owned by Disney since 2013 and the Rancho Deluxe. Productions that have done some filming at the Rancho Deluxe studio include "SWAT", "Timeless", "LA