This scaffolding is left over from making the 1953 film Fair Wind to Java starring Fred MacMurray and Vera Ralston. It stood in for the famous volcano Krakatoa. A building from the set also still stands on Paoha Island.
No doubt the most famous movie made at Mono Lake is High Plains Drifter starring Clint Eastwood. The fictional town of Lago stood on the lake's south shore, near the South Tufa Reserve.
