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Anyone remember the blacksmith scene in the movie The Harvey Girls (1946) with Judy Garlin, John Hodiak? The movie is about a mail order bride that stops in a frontier gambler's town to work as a waitress.

The hammer the girl uses in the blacksmith shop looks to be about a 6 pound cross peen. Take notice of the hot horse shoe that smokes and bends under the hammer blows. Look at the red hot horse show just before she thrown it into the slack tub and then notice the sizzle and steam ad it hits the water.

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A lot of the old movies get smithing right as they were exposed to the real thing back when they were young.

Note that some of the old westerns have both a blacksmith shop and also a shoeing forge at the livery stable!

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Have any of you noticed just how many movies have a blacksmith or a reference to blacksmith's in them?

Most westerns are a given, but there are so many diverse movies that include smiths.

I remember being at the movie theater with my nephew and him saying
"look, another blacksmith" - I whispered back . . . "there's always a blacksmith". It's become a bit of a joke for us to see who notices something referencing smithing in a movie or TV show before the other does.

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Hey! what about spartacus or the gladiator they had showed working smiths,at least they showed the viewers that.they were more likely cooking hot dogs or steak because it was a movie from HollyWood after all.

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The Harvey Girls was on one of the high number channels late at night. I would have completely missed it had it not been for the anvil in the scene.

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Well, heck, I have never seen this Judy Garland Movie. Now I feel I need to try and find it somewhere so I can see it. I am wondering? did you say Little Judy Garland was swinging a 6 # hammer? I can't imagine her ever being able to lift one. LOL

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