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Los Angeles and the movies grew up together, and a natural
extension of the picture business was the premium presentation of
the productthe biggest, best, and brightest theatres imaginable.
The magnificent movie palaces along Broadway in downtown Los
Angeles still represent the highest concentration of vintage
theatres in the world. With Hollywood and the movies practically
synonymous, the theatres in the studios neighborhood were
state-of-the-art for showbiz, whether they were designed for film,
vaudeville, or stage productions. From the elegant Orpheum and the
exotic Graumans Chinese to the modest El Rey, this volume
celebrates the architecture and social history of Los Angeless
unique collection of historic theatres past and present. The common
threads that connect them all, from the grandest movie palace to
the smallest neighborhood theatre, are stories and the ghosts of
audiences past waiting in the dark for the show to begin.
For over 100 years, Paramount Pictures has been captivating movie
and television audiences worldwide with its alluring imagery and
compelling stories. Arising from the collective genius of Adolph
Zukor, Jesse L. Lasky, and Cecil B. DeMille during the 1910s,
Paramount Pictures is home to such enduring classics as Wings,
Sunset Boulevard, The Ten Commandments, Love Story, The Godfather,
the Indiana Jones series, Chinatown, Forrest Gump, Braveheart,
Titanic, and Star Trek. Early Paramount Studios chronicles
Paramount's origins, culminating in the creation and expansion of
the lot at 5555 Melrose Avenue, the last major motion picture
studio still in Hollywood.
Since 1928, Warner Bros. has produced thousands of beloved films
and television shows at the studio's magical 110-acre film factory
in Burbank. This collection of evocative images concentrates on the
Warner Bros. legacy from the 1920s to the 1950s, when timeless
classics such as Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, and East of Eden
came to life. It also looks at WB's earlier homes along Hollywood's
"Poverty Row," the birthplace of Looney Tunes, and the site of WB's
pioneering marriage between film and sound in the 1920s. Early
Warner Bros. Studios also tells the tale of four brothers--Harry,
Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner--scions of a Polish Jewish immigrant
family who rose from the humblest of origins to become Hollywood
moguls of enormous and lasting influence.
“Los Angeles is a city that runs from its own past” explains
historian and Bison Archives owner Marc Wanamaker.Many of
Hollywood’s legendary sets and props, mansions, theaters,
restaurants, nightclubs, hotels, and even the studios and the films
they produced are now either gone or have been redeveloped,
repurposed, or remade beyond recognition. Even more disarmingly,
the physical ephemera associated with such items is often MIA as
well. Photographs, files, maps, documents, menus, production
paperwork, records, manuscripts, everything from matchbooks to
movie magazines and entire movie backlots have now been lost in the
backwash of dubious progress, short-sighted corporate mindsets, and
civic indifference. Fortunately, for the last fifty years, in the
very epicenter of Hollywood, thanks to Wanamaker, there has existed
a haven where over 70,000 of these items, physically or
photographically, have been collected and protected. These
artifacts tell the story of Hollywood’s glorious past, as well as
its uncertain future as the hub of filmmaking in America.
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Marc Wanamaker
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