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And to give you a flavor of Berg’s sometimes iconoclastic tendencies, his news releases about the event repeatedly spell that Santa Fe bedroom community as “El Dorado.”

If you go

WHAT: “Made in Santa Fe”

WHO: Jeff Berg narrates a compilation of film clips

WHEN: 7 p.m. Thursday

WHERE: The Performance Space at La Tienda in Eldorado

HOW MUCH: $5

EXTRA TREAT: Food and drink from La Plancha will be allowed in the screening

“I’ve never seen it spelled like that (Eldorado) before,” Berg said. “Even John Wayne’s movies had it as two words.”

Sorry, Jeff. It’s one word in Santa Fe County.

The opening event of the film series, started in 2012 by Bill Osher and Diane Thomas but put on the shelf this year due to other commitments, will be Berg’s own presentation of “Made in Santa Fe,” a compilation of 15 film clips from movies with scenes filmed in the area.

“Hollywood or Bust,” a 1956 Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis road movie, is the worst in his estimation. And not just the worst filmed here. “It’s probably one of the worst movies ever made,” he said.

The New Mexico scene shows Jerry Lewis atop a convertible with a Great Dane, holding a Geiger counter and singing a song about radiation, Berg said.

We believe it’s Jerry Lewis, and not the dog, doing the singing and holding.

“Lust in the Dust,” on the other hand, is a 1985 comedy starring Tab Hunter and Divine that shows what happens when gold fever comes to a desert saloon.

“I just love it,” said Berg, who said it always filled the seats when he screened the film at a weekly series he once hosted in Las Cruces. “It’s funny; it’s really goofy the way they do it. Divine is really good in it.”

Overall, he said of the Santa Fe round-up, “I like the idea that there were a lot of different genres filmed around here. It’s not all just Westerns.” Of the 15 films he uses in the presentation, five are Westerns, he said.

The first he can find with any Santa Fe presence is “The Texas Rangers” from back in 1936. Fred MacMurray is one of the stars and, perhaps not surprisingly for the time, it reflects many of the stereotypes of that time.

“It was a long time before there were any films to do any justice to Latino/Latina culture, tribal culture, or even to women,” Berg said.

The first movie he can find that was filmed entirely in New Mexico, he said, is “The McMasters” in 1970. It focuses on the return of a black man to his Southern community after he fought in the Civil War.

With this latest iteration of the “Reel New Mexico” series, Berg said he plans to present one film a month. The next one scheduled is “Bagdad Cafe” on Nov. 13. The 1987 comedy/drama tells of a German tourist who is dumped in the desert by her husband and then proceeds to turn a nearby cafe/gas station/motel into a fun and thriving business.

While he will sprinkle made-in-New-Mexico films in the series, Berg said he also plans to show other movies. “It will be a blend of lesser-known New Mexico titles and others that people either loved and forgot, or ones they never saw and should see,” he said.

In other words, some under-the-radar movies that he personally thinks deserve more attention.

And he urges city residents to make the drive out to Eldorado for the events. He might even offer reduced admission to make up for the gas cost.

Berg has taken his show on the road recently, showing his “Made in New Mexico” film clip compilation in Albuquerque, as well as a “Made on Route 66” compilation in Gallup, Winslow, Holbrook and Sedona.

An aside: The successful “Route 66” TV series didn’t film a single episode along the actual Mother Road, he said. “The closest I could get was a clip from Lake Havasu City.”