Movie Star Ned Finley Filming in North Carolina, 1918

“Movie Stars Making Movies at Bat Cave,” from the Jan. 24, 1918 issue of the French Broad Hustler, Hendersonville, N.C. When the movie was released, it was called “O’Garry of the Royal Mounties”.

Ned Finley, one of the brightest lights in the world of moving picture actors, arrived in Henderson with his troupe of nine men en route to Bat Cave, where they will stop at the Esmeralda Inn for moving pictures making purposes.

Mr. Finley has been to this section a number of times for the purpose of filming pictures. Heretofore he came as the director of the Vitagraph company but this time he comes as the president of Ned Finley Film, Inc., a $100,000 corporation recently formed.

The first picture will be entitled the “Return of O Garry,” with a Canadian setting. Two other pictures will be made before Mr. Finley returns to New York for a brief business trip.

A movement is on foot for the establishment of a permanent studio at Bat Cave by reason of its desirableness for producing moving picture scenes.

This is the first undertaking of the new moving picture film producing company.

The troupe is small for the reason that Mr. Finley proposes to sue as many natives as possible.