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Lugares a visitar em Hollywood:Selig Polyscope Studiosright0Colonel William Selig (1864-1948), a pioneer in the early motion picture industry, is credited with a number of important "firsts". In 1908, Selig filmed The Count of Monte Cristo, thought to be the first narrative film shot in Los Angeles, and in 1909, he established the first permanent Los Angeles motion picture studio, on Allesandro Street in Edendale. Selig-Polyscope may have been the first company to shoot a two-reel film (Damon and Pythias, 1908), and made the first true serial with their popular Adventures of Kathlyn series (1913-14), with their paradigmatic "cliff-hanger" endings. Many famous actors started at Selig-Polyscope, including Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Tom Mix, and G.M. "Bronco Billy" Anderson. Selig was also famous for animal films. In one notable 1909 film, Hunting Big Game in Africa, he recreated a lion hunt by President Theodore Roosevelt. Selig completed the film while Roosevelt was actually in Africa on safari. The film was released as soon as word was received that the President had actually slain a lion.left0Though Selig started his Polyscope Film Co in Chicago, his associate Francis Boggs set up operations in Edendale in 1909, and the whole company would follow a few years later. The Selig-Polyscope Studio in Edendale was completed in 1910, featuring a mission-style facade adorning the front entrance, patterned after the bells at Mission San Gabriel. This set a style that would be echoed in the other studios in Edendale.?In 1913, Selig acquired 32 acres of land near Lincoln Park (then known as Eastlake Park), and began to shift his operations to that new location. As Colonel Selig had acquired a sizable collection of wild animals to feature in his films, part of the new site was set up as a zoo, which eventually took on its own importance as a tourist attraction. In 1918, the Selig-Polyscope Company made its last film, but Colonel Selig continued to operate the zoo and to produce films independently up through the 1930's. When the zoo was closed, the animals were donated to the City of Los Angeles, forming the initial collection of the Griffith Park Zoo.Meanwhile, back in Edendale, Selig leased his original studio lot to William Fox in 1916, who operated there until setting up the Fox studio lot on Sunset and Western the next year. Fox filmed Theda Bara in Cleopatra at the Edendale lot, as well as westerns starring Tom Mix (who had signed on with Fox). After Fox moved out, the Edendale lot served a series of studios, including Clara Kimball Young, Garson Studios (1920), and Marshal Neilan Studios (1925). In 1930, the lot, then abandoned but with its facade still standing, was the scene of an infamous rape. Within the next year, the site was demolished.CREDITSBiography of Colonel William Selig from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences / Margaret Herrick Library (Source: )History of Selig Zoo and Movie Studio (Soiurce: ).Hollywood Heritage on Francis Boggs and the establishment of the first studios in LA. (Source: )Special thanks to Marc Wanamaker of Bison Archives. 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So, take the WB Studio Tour instead, or arrange a tour of one of the other big studios near wherever you're staying (Fox, if you're by the beach). Mostly they're all just huge, generic, windowless warehouses that act as soundstages, but each lot has a block of cool New York City facades; plus, WB has the Gilmore Girls' sweet, fake perfect town and, for some reason, Universal still has its Old West set. Either way, it's just fun to see people in silly costumes driving around in golf carts. Founded: 1967 Buena Vista/Walt Disney Pictures500 S. Buena Vista StreetBurbank, CA 91521818-560-1000Dreamworks Pictures100 Universal City Plaza, Bldg 5121Universal City, CA 91608818-733-7000- Lionsgate FilmsSuite 2002700 Colorado AvenueSanta Monica, CA 90404310-314-2000- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.Miramax FilmsNew Line Cinema Corporation116 N. 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The studio is also credited with revitalizing the genre of the R-rated comedy, based on the success of Wedding Crashers in 2005 and, more recently, Horrible Bosses in 2011. New Line is one of the few film companies that still works in the horror genre, being widely known for the iconic A Nightmare on Elm Street and Final Destination franchises. Throughout its history, New Line has created some of the most successful film franchises in history. Its most popular films include The Mask, the Austin Powers titles, Hairspray, Rush Hour, Elf, Sex and the City and Wedding Crashers. New Line became a unit of Warner Bros. Entertainment in March 2008. The company maintains separate development, production, marketing, distribution and business affairs operations, but coordinates those functions with Warner Bros. to maximize film performance and operating efficiencies.Since 2008, the company has seen the most successful period in its history with the releases of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Sex and the City and its sequel, Sex and the City 2; Journey to the Center of the Earth and its sequel, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island; He’s Just Not That Into You, Four Christmases, Valentine’s Day and Horrible Bosses. New Line's upcoming releases include Jack the Giant Slayer, The Conjuring, We're the Millers and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. New Line’s 2014 release slate includes Tammy, Into the Storm, Horrible Bosses 2 and The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies, the final film in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy. - Wilshire Boulevard / Crescent Drive 9000– Maserati Ferrari - Escola 240 Elm Dr com Charleville, Beverly hills, uma abaixo da Wilshire 9300 banco chase- centro compra chic atrás da MGM – dayton way /wilshire- Rodeo Drive – perto da MGMA mais famosa e divertida tabela de pre?os de hospedaria que chegou até nós da Antiguidade Romana.Achada em Aesernia (Isernia, no sul de Itália) e actualmente exposta no Museu do Louvre. Está datada de c. 50-100 d.C. A sua referência epigráfica é CIL IX, 2689.L(ucius) CALIDIUS EROTICUS / SIBI ET FANNIAE VOLUPTATI V(ivus) F(ecit).[Ambos os nomes podem ser lidos como jogos de palavras com conota??es sexuais:]Lúcio "Sexo Quente" fez em vida para si e para [a sua mulher] "Voluptuosidade Barata"[Cliente viajante: ] COPO COMPUTEMUS"Hospedeiro, fa?amos as contas!"[Hospedeiro: ] HABES VINI ? (sextarium) I (unum), PANE(m) /A(ssem) I (unum),PULMENTAR(ium) A(sses) II (duos)"Tem um sextário de vinho [c. meio litro] e p?o por um asse e o conduto por dois asses"[Cliente: ] CONVENIT "De acordo!"[Hospedeiro: ] PUELL(am) / A(sses) VIII (octo)? –"Pela rapariga s?o oito asses"[Cliente: ] ET HOC CONVENIT"Também de acordo!".[Hospedeiro: ] FAENUM / MULO A(sses) II (duos)"O feno para a mula s?o dois asses"[Cliente: ] ISTE MULUS ME AD FACTUM / DABIT"Esta mula leva-me à ruína!!!"1886 Landowners Harvey & Daeida Henderson Wilcox name their ranch Hollywood after Daeida met a woman in Ohio whose country house was called “Hollywood” for the English holly and woods.1902The Electric Theater, the first movie theater built for that purpose, by Thomas Lincoln Tally in downtown Los Angeles. Admission was 10 cents for a one-reel movie.1907 The first film crew, from the Selig Polyscope Company, films in Los Angeles with Occidental Studios founder Hobart Bosworth starring.Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes upholds the copyright infringement of written material as it applies to film in the notable case of Kalem Production Company versus Ben Hur publisher Harper Brothers.1909Selig Polyscope Company, the first permanent studio in LA, is established in the historic Edendale District. Hundreds of movies are filmed until its demise in 1918. Only a handful survive.1910 Townsmen vote Hollywood into the City of Los Angeles in order to get running water. “Hollywood Boulevard” replaces “Prospect Avenue.” D.W. Griffith decides to direct the first film shot in Hollywood, “In Old California,” in Hollywood because of the friendly small-town population and the beautiful location. 1911The first motion picture studio in Hollywood was built by the Nestor Motion Picture Company on Sunset and Gower corner. Nestor Studios merged one year later with Universal Film Company.1912 Thomas Lincoln Tally shows the first color movie at the Electric Theater in Hollywood.Universal Studios founded. Mack Sennett opens the Keystone Film Co.1914Hobart Bosworth, a silent screen actor from Ohio, started a production company in Los Angeles in order to make Jack London stories into films. Jack London even cameod as a sailor in the first picture, “The Sea Wolf” (1913). Bosworth finished building the Occidental Studios lot in July.Charlie Chaplin makes his first movie, “Making a Living,” filmed on 35 mm in Los Angeles under the auspicous banner of the Keystone Pictures Studio, syndicate of the famous Keystone Cops.Mack Sennett makes the first feature-length comedy, "Tillie's Punctured Romance," starring Charlie Chaplin.First Feature film in Hollywood is also Cecil B DeMille’s first production, “The Squaw Man,” and the first production of brothers in law Sam Goldwyn and Jesse Lasky who together founded the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company. The success of “The Squaw Man” led to a merger with Adolph Zukor’s Famous Players and started the Famous Players-Lasky studio, the fore-runner of Paramount.Mary Pickford, aka. Gladys Louise Smith, signs a deal for $104,000 a year.CIRCA 1913 BY MARCEAU 1915William Fox starts the Fox Film Foundation with studios built in New Jersey and Hollywood.D.W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" is released. Hailed as the most important film of all time for American movie history for introducing story flashbacks, dramatic close-ups, cross-cutting.1916 Paramount is created when Jesse L. Lasky Co. merges with Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Co. At the age of 26, Charlie Chaplin signs a deal with Mutual Film Corporation for a record $675,000 a year.1917 Famous Players-Lasky absorbs the original companies at Occidental Studios, which continues to house Cecil B. DeMille’s own production company, Artcraft. The Charlie Chaplin Studios are completed and are still standing today on the corner of La Brea and Sunset.Mary Pickford moves to California in order to make Cecil B. DeMille & Jack London’s “Romance of the Redwoods,” for which she was paid $96,666.67 out of the $135,000 budget. Mary Pickford shoots here at Occidental Studios.1918 Four brothers, formerly soap salesmen in Ohio, open the Waner Brothers Studio.Sid Grauman, “Hollywood's Master Showman”, opens one of the first movie palaces in America, the Million Dollar Theater, with "The Silent Man." The building still stands at Broadway and 3rd.1919 Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford band together under the banner of United Artists, an Idependent film studio. 1921Actress Virginia Rappe dies from a sexually related assault at a San Francisco party, ending comedian “Fatty”Arbuckle’s career and triggering Will Hays to form a national PR campaign and later to adopt his production code of ethics/censorship.1922Working on the lot at Occidental Studios, then Famous Players-Lasky (Paramount Pictures), Film Director William Desmond Taylor, is found murdered at his home bungalow just a few blocks away from his studio office. The crime is never solved. 1922Rin Tin Tin, a german shepherd trained by an American coporal in France during World War I, appears for the first time. Later he made 26 movies with Warner Brothers and was famed for saving the studio with his box-office success. 1923 To publicize a new housing development, a sign is erected for Hollywoodland. The -land was taken off in 1949.1924Louis B. Mayer heads the new MGM Studios, a conglomeration of three studios: Metro Pictures (founded 1916), Goldwyn Pictures (founded 1917), and the Louis B. Mayer Co. (founded 1918), all owned by Marcus Loew.The CBC, Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales, founded in 1919, reorganizes to form Columbia pictures.1925Masquers Club, the fore-runner of SAG, is founded in Hollywood by a number of actors unhappy about Hollywood Studio contracts.1927Sid Grauman opens his Chinese Theater for a total cost of 2 million dollars. The premiere of Cecil B DeMille’s “The King of Kings” was so well attended it caused riots.Al Jolson stars in “The Jazz Singer,” the first feature length talkie, which received an Oscar Nomination for best writing, adaptation.1928Mickey Mouse debuted in the first synchronized sound cartoon “Steamboat Willie” by the Disney Brothers Production Company. The cartoon was drawn and filmed in their garage in Los Feliz.1929The first Oscar Awards Ceremony is held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, across from the Chinese Theater, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.Warner Brothers relase, ”On With the Show,” is the first all-talkie color feature.1930The Hays Production Code, written by a Roman Catholic priest named Father Lord, is adopted by Will Hays. Scenes of childbirth, among other things, are forbidden.“Greta Garbo Speaks!” advertises her first talkie, “Anna Christie.”1932 Aspiring actress Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping off the “H” from the Hollywood sign.1933 Variety, established to cover vaudeville in 1905, opens a branch in Los Angeles.The Screen Actors Guild is organized by 21 actors, including Boris Karloff, who complained of the treatment under his last picture, Frankenstein. The Writers Guild of America is formed from the Screen Writers Guild, formerly a social club, when the film industry tried to insitute a paycut.1935 RKO’s “Becky Sharp” is the first feature film shot using the new Three-Strip Technicolor process. Later on, “The Wizard of Oz” would use the same filming technique.1936 The Screen Director’s Guild, the predecessor of the DGA, is founded by thirteen Hollywood Directors.1937Disney releases “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” – the first animated feature – using the new Three-Strip Technicolor process.1938The California Child Actor’s Bill, aka. The Coogan Act, is passed in reaction to million dollar child star Jackie Coogan’s infamous legal trial in which his parents refused to give him any of his prior earnings. Later Jackie Coogan becomes known for his role as Uncle Fester on The Adams Family.1939 Famed as the “Greatest Year in Film History” for such movies as “Gone with the Wind,” “The Wizard of Oz,” “The Women,” "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," "Ninotchka,” “Gunga Din,” “Beau Geste,” “The Little Princess,” “Love Affair,” etc.1940 Bugs Bunny’s first tiff with Elmer Fudd in “A Wild Hare’ prompts him to say “What’s up, Doc?”1941 Greta Garbo retires at age 36 in order to preserve her mystique. Ironically more than half of her films no longer exist.The first commercial (aka. sponsored) television broadcast is held by ten stations who received licenses from the FCC.1942Orson Welles, at age 25, writes, produces, stars and directs in “Citizen Kane” recieving nine Oscar nominations and one win.Orson Welles in 1937 photograph by Carl Van Vechten. 194510,500 set decorators went on strike after negotiations for a new union were stagnated by the producers at Warner Brothers. October 5, 1945, is dubbed Hollywood Black Friday for the riot.Jimmy Stewart returns to the US after WWII and decides not to renew his studio contract with MGM and hires an agent instead. His first independent picture, “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946) guarantees his independent status.1948“Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" becomes the most infamous question in hollywood history. The “Hollywood Ten” are jailed for six months for contempt by Congress and remain black-listed until the sixties because they refused to answer.DW Griffith, principal director of the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, dies of a stroke at the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood.1949 RCA Records unveils the new 45-rpm record, allowing less than four minutes for recording.Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini, both previously married, conceive a son, shocking society so much that she is denounced by the US Senate as a “perosona non grata,” and is forced to seek exile in Italy. 1951 First commercial color tv program airs. Hollywood responds to decreasing film sales with color and wide-screen presentations. House Committee on Un-American Activities resumes its hearings, blackballing more than 200 film technicians and stars for fear of communist tendencies.1953 The first Academy Awards air on television by NBC.1954 WGA split east and west in order to service their members with the new influx of television writing.1955Dorothy Dandridge, star of “Carmen Jones,” is the first African American to be nominated for an Oscar and the African American woman to star on the cover of Life Magazine.James Dean dies in a car accident.“Howard Frank Archives" be cited as the source of the image “Blackboard Jungle” is released as one of the first movies depicting kids as juveniles.1956 "Rock Around the Clock” becomes the first rock n roll musical.1960Joanne Woodward becomes the first actress to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.The Screen Director’s Guild and the Radio and Television Directors Guild merge and form today’s Director’s Guild of America (DGA).1961Regular in-flight movies begin with a TWA flight between NY and LA who showed “Love Possessed,” starring Lana Turner.1962 Marilyn Monroe commits suicide. MCA (Music corporation of America) purchases Universal Studios.1963 Elizabeth Taylor’s “Cleopatra” bombs at the box office leaving an 18 million dollar deficit. The Cinerama Dome in Seattle opens as the world’s largest screen at 90 feet wide by 30 feet high.1965 “The Sound of Music” replaces “Gone with the Wind” as the number one box office hit of all time.1968 The Hays Code is back burnered with the advent of the MPAA Film Rating System.1967 Clint Eastwood becomes the Man With No Name, one of the first anti-heroes, in “A Fistfull of Dollars.”BY MARTIN KRAFT 1970 Kirk Kerkorian buys MGM, marking the end of the company’s production era. 1971"Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song!" is reported to be first Blaxploitation film – black actors starring for the purpose of showing black music for the profit (exploitation) of others. 1973Marlon Brando sends Indian-rights activist Sacheen Littlefeather to refuse his oscar for “The Godfather” in protest of American Indian mis-treatment by Hollywood and the government.George Lucas makes history by signing a deal with Fox for 40% of the merchandising rights on a little picture known as “Star Wars.”1974 Z Channel launches in Los Angeles as one of the first paid programming, i.e., cable, channels. It popularized letter box editions, independent and foreign films, as well as the director’s cut.1976 "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" becomes the first film to win best picture, best director, best screenplay, best actor and best actress Oscars, replacing "It Happened One Night" (1934).1977 Star Wars debuts to gross 200 million dollars and invents the blockbuster season. Roman Polanski is exiled to France in order to escape incarceration for a guilty rape verdict.Image provided by Film Servis Festival Karlovy Vary 1979 The Weinstein brothers start Miramax Film Corp. as an independent film company in Buffalo, N.Y.1980 Ronald Reagan, who began as a radio actor and went on to gross several million in box office sales, is elected President of the United States.Sherry Lansing, at the age of 35, becomes the first female to head a major studio at 20th Century Fox. 1981 “Heaven’s Gate,” director Michael Cimino (“Deer Hunter,” 1978), single-handedly ruins United Artists, who survives only through a buyout from MGM. Oddly enough Z Channel uses this movie to establish the director’s cut by realeasing all 219 minutes of the original version. MTV opens its doors, 24 hours a day, by playing non-stop music videos.1982 Katharine Hepburn holds the record for four acting Oscars from her performance as Ethel Thayer in "On Golden Pond."1983 The CD debuts in the American market replacing the BBC’s Digital Delay, the first digital audio device.1984 The Betamax Decision, ruled by the Supreme Court, allowed home use of the video-tape machine on the basis that it did not violate copyright law because the material was not used for a “commercial or profit-making purpose.” The Sundance Institute takes over the U.S. Film Festival in Utah and Robert Redford at its head creates the most influential festival for independent film in the United States.Rock Hudson is famed for “giving AIDS a face” when he dies of AIDS at age 59 in Beverly Hills.1986 Ted Turner buys the MGM movie library for 1 billion dollars and begins to colorize classic black and white movies and air them on his cable network. Salah Malkawi/Stringer Getty Images 1988The Writers Guild of America strikes for a total of 22 weeks, virtually shutting down television production and birthing reality (un-scripted) television.1989 Sony Corp. buys Columbia Tri-Star off of coca-cola for $3.4 billions. Warner Communications and Time Inc. merge.1990 The Internet Movie Database is made up of several independent movie lists created prior to the world wide web.1993 Heidi Fleiss becomes infamous as the Hollywood Madam and spends time in prison for tax evasion, money laundering and attempted pandering. In 2004 she sold her life story to Paramount for $5 million.1994 DreamWorks SKG is formed by former Disney head Jeffrey Katzenberg, Steven Spielberg, and record mogul David Geffen, marking the first creation of a major film studio in half a century.by John Mueller The Birth of TCM (Turner Classic Movies) a network featuring commercial-free classic films 24 hours a day.1995 Pixar is founded by Apple CEO Steve Jobs.1998 “Titanic” beomes the most expensive film ever made at 200 million dollars and recieves 14 Oscar Nominations and 11 wins.BY flickr user: STEEPWAYS- photographer The American Film Institute announces the Top 100 American Films of All Time in order to honor the film centennial. "Citizen Kane," “Casablanca,” and “The Godfather” 1999 TiVo is invented, allowing home viewers to pause or rewind live TV.2002 African Americans sweep the best actor and best actress Academy Awards with Denzel Washington for "Training Day" and Halle Berry for "Monster's Ball."2003 Austrian movie actor Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes governor of California.2005 Michael Eisner is ousted from CEO at Disney by his former number two, Robert Iger. Iger disbands the company's infamously bureaucratic Strategic Planning division.2006 Walt Disney Co. buys Pixar for $7.4 billion, making the former CEO of Pixar and the current CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs, the largest shareholder at Disney.2007 Hollywood Film Office opens its doors. HOLLYWOOD HISTORYThe Movies get moving??Early filmmaking in Hollywood (LAPL)??By Jim Bishop1979?Hollywood wasn’t always an open air asylum. It was founding in 1887 by retired bluenoses as a prohibition town. No drinks, no excitement.? A horse could not turn a corner at a speed greater than six miles per hour. It was a nice place if you were an orange.?Movies were unheard of in Hollywood, even in 1900. The flickering shadows were devised in a place called Fort Lee, N.J. It had forests, rocks, cliffs for cliff-hanging, and the Hudson River.?The movie industry had two problems. The weather was unpredictable, and Thomas Edison sued producers who used his invention. A romantic two-reeler could be made in three days for $1,000 if the rain stopped and if the process servers got lost on the Dyckman St. ferry.?The Selig Polyscope Co. heard from a director, Francis Boggs, that a tiny town called Hollywood, Calif., had everything. There was perpetual sunshine, palm trees, the Santa Monica Mountains for westerns, a beach for provocative mermaids, and an ocean for sea stories.?William Selig, the owner, went to see Edison. They organized the Motion Picture Patent Co. Selig was ready to go west. All he had to move were a couple of hand-cranked cameras, a director, a leading man and a leading lady, and a dozen unemployed actors.????In March 1909, Selig arrived in Los Angeles. He didn’t have to bring scenery. It was all in place. His two-reelers created envy in the East. In the autumn, Biograph and D.W. Griffith moved to Los Angeles. By spring, Pathé, Vitagraph, Lubin and Kalem had gone west.?Strangely, they not select the small town of Hollywood. The studios were in Glendale, Pasadena, Santa Barbara, San Diego and Santa Monica. It was not until 1911 that David Horsley moved his Nestor Co. west. The prohibition town, Hollywood, had an abandoned saloon at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street.?The prohibitionists learned too late that, while it was desirable to have no booze, Hollywood also had no water. The little town was forced to incorporate itself with Los Angeles. Local ordinances became invalid.?At the same time, the suburban towns yanked the welcome mat from the movie people. William Fox moved to Hollywood. Carl Laemmle bought the Nestor studio. Essanay and Vitagraph made it unanimous.?Mack Sennett shot his comedies at the beach or in the middle of the street. His actors pushed their way into public parades and skidded automobiles over dusty roads to create excitement.????Millions of people were paying a nickel a head to see these epics. Charlie Chaplin arrived. So did Harold Lloyd. A teen-ager named Mary Pickford was seen in a nightie, yawning and holding an automobile tire with a credo: Time to Retire.?The brought her out. And Mabel Normand, Tom Mix and William Farnum could actually ride a horse. So could William S. Hart. Movie plots became longer, more intricate. High-ceilinged studios were built. The prohibitionists left Hollywood in dismay. To them, it became a place of sin.?Cecil B. DeMille heard that Griffith had spent $100,000 on The Birth of a Nation, featuring the Gish sisters. He decided to spend more on sophisticated movies like Why Change Your Wife? and Forbidden Fruit.?The movie-goers admired certain actors. This led to the star system. In 1909, a star was paid $5 a day. Five years later, Mary Pickford was earning $1,000 a week. An English comic, Charlie Chaplin was paid $150 a week in 1913 by Mack Sennett. Two years later, he was getting $10,000 a week.?What had started as nickel theater became a gigantic industry. Some studios built their own theaters across the nation. Movies seduced the emotions of America two hours at a time—laughter and tears.?Where there is big money there are fights, consolidations and codes. The independent producer was squeezed out or bought out. Movie magazines, which pretend to purvey the private lives of the stars, flourished.?Pretty girls in Iowa and Maine were told “you ought to be in pictures.” They went out west and, with few exceptions, became hash slingers or worse. Hollywood became the magic Mecca of make-believe.?It was, in those days, a sparkling city of fame and light. Today (1979) it is smog and freeways, freaks and drugs, cults and sexual religions, front money and mortgages, stupendous hits and duds, economic knifings and gossip columnists, movie agents and press agents.?Baby, you’ve come a long, long way.?__________________________________?Book/Film News , Hollywood at 100! | Tags: Biograph, carl laemmle, cecil b demille, Charlie Chaplin, d. w. griffith, David Horsley, Francis Boggs, harold lloyd, Kalem, Lubin, Mabel Normand, Mack Sennett, Mary Pickford, Motion Picture Patent Co., Nestor, Pathe, Selig Polyscope, Thomas Edison, Tom Mix, vitagraph, William Farnum, William Fox, William S. Hart, William SeligComments(0)Hobart Bosworth remembers early filmmakingPosted by Allan Ellenberger on Oct 25th, 2011 2011Oct 25FILM?HISTORYThe early days of filmmaking as remembered by Hobart Bosworth???On October 27, 1911 producer David Horsley came from New York and converted a deserted tavern on the northwest corner of Sunset and Gower into Hollywood’s first movie studio. On Thursday we will celebrate one-hundred years of filmmaking in Hollywood. Films were already being made in Los Angeles in the Edendale section where actor Hobart Bosworth was making films since 1909. The following is taken from a 1936 letter?that Bosworth wrote a Los Angeles Times columnist reminiscing about those early days in Los Angeles and Hollywood.?“The Fanchon-Royer studio was the original permanent studio established by Francis Boggs, director for the Selig Polyscope Company. The buildings which have just been torn down were built by him from plans approved by Col. Selig. That was the triumph of Bogg’s life, which was ended by a bullet fired by a crazed Japanese gardener when Boggs was on the threshold of great things. Another bullet dangerously wounded Col. Selig.?“The Selig Polyscope party, on a location tour from the plant in Chicago, stopped in Los Angeles in May, 1909, and made two pictures, The Heart of a Race Track Tout, mostly at the old Santa Anita track, and Power of the Sultan, in which Stella Adams and I were the leads. The ‘studio’ for these two was a Chinese laundry on Olive near Eighth. Then the Selig part went north as far as the Columbia River, but was driven back by fogs and hired a little wooden hall on Alessandro Avenue (now Glendale Blvd.), built a little stage and, I think, made one picture there. In the meantime, Boggs had written me at Ramona, where I was battling a gangrenous lung. In September 1909, I started playing the Roman in the old Virginius story with a happy ending.?“Boggs asked if I would write a plot he could produce, which would enable us to use the same scenery and costumes for another picture. I did it by stealing from The Rape of Lucrece, Cymbeline, Quo Vadis and Arius the Epicurean, setting a fashion for acquiring stories which has been considerably followed ever since. So I wrote and acted my second picture, and wrote, directed and acted my third, Courtship of Miles Standish. I have the records to prove all this.?“In November, 1909, a little independent company called Imp started on the other side of the street and a little further down. A year later Mack Sennett occupied that studio. It expanded across the street and had a big growth. But before that, I think in 1910, Jimmie Young Deer began making Westerns for Pathé. He hired a lot nearer us and on the same side of the street which became the Norbig studios. It is there yet, just as it was when I moved to it in 1914 to make the interiors for Jack London snow pictures.?“Tom Mix, after he became a Fox star, moved a long way farther out on the Glendale road to what was called Mixville. He had his stables there. Curly Eagles ran them. He was a member, with the Stanley boys, Art Accord, Hoot Gibson and Bosco, of a little stranded rodeo troupe. They came to Boggs in 1910 to work in westerns, but began with Mazeppa, in which I was the gent who was bound to the fiery, untamed steed. It was Kathlyn Williams’ first picture.?“The next studio was established by Al Christie and Dave Horsley at Sunset and Gower. Vicky Ford with her mother and father were there. It later became Universal. Griffith brought the Biograph to Georgia Street in January 1910 and it rained for a month. He was about to go back when he learned that Vitagraph, Lubin, etc., were starting out here because our pictures had such fine scenery and light. Selig had scored a scoop. Griffith brought Mary Pickford, Jack Bennett, Henry Walthall and a lot more.”?—Hobart BosworthMay 1936__________________________________?Book/Film News , Film History | Tags: Al Christie, Art Accord, Col. Selig, David Horsley, Francis Boggs, Hobart Bosworth, Hoot Gibson, Mack Sennett, Mary Pickford, Pathe, Selig Polyscope Company, Tom Mix, universalComments(2)Selig Polyscope StudiosPosted by Allan Ellenberger on May 22nd, 2009 2009May 22FILM STUDIO HISTORYSelig-Polyscope Studios?The original Selig-Polyscope Studio?that was located at 1845 Glendale in the Edendale area of Los Angeles (Los Angeles Times, May 5, 1940)?By Allan R. EllenbergerMay 22, 2009?The Chicago-born Col. William N Selig started out in the theatre both as an actor and manager. But in 1883 he became interested in photography and began experimental work which later led to the development of a motion-picture camera and a projector known as the Selig Polyscope. His experimental work brought him into conflict with Thomas Edison, who also was deeply interested in film recording and projection, and for years the two were involved in patent litigation. ??Selig first visited California in 1893, but made his first commercial picture three years later in Chicago.?One of his early films, The Count of Monte Cristo (1907), was photographed on the roof of a Los Angeles office building. ??In the spring of 1909 Selig established a temporary studio in a small building behind a Chinese laundry on Olive Street between Seventh and Eighth Streets in what is now downtown Los Angeles. There, Francis Boggs directed In the Sultan’s Power (1909). The following August, Selig and Boggs moved to an area known as Edendale, setting up Los Angeles’ first permanent studio in a rented bungalow at 1845 Allesandro Street (now Glendale Blvd.). ??Edendale soon became Selig-Polyscope’s headquarters. Selig sparred no expense in fitting up the permanent studio. The company built the exterior, which faced Allessandro (Glendale) Street, to represent an old Spanish mission and used genuine adobe. In the interior was sunk an enormous water tank. The studio itself, composed entirely of glass, was the second largest of its kind in the world at the time. It contained stages, dressing rooms, offices, and a modestly sized film laboratory. The total cost of the studio renovations was estimated to be a quarter-million dollars??The Selig-Polyscope company produced hundreds of short features here, including many early westerns featuring Tom Mix. The studio made dozens of highly successful films, among them was The Spoilers (1914), probably their best feature-length effort starring William Farnum, Kathlyn Williams and Tom Santschi. ??Actor Hobart Bosworth, who was one of the Selig regulars, made many of his early films at the Edendale studio. ??“The first picture I did on my return to (Selig) in Edendale was called The Roman,” Bosworth recalled in 1929. “We had good little sets and costumes. The story I recognized at once. It was Sheridan Knowle’s old tragedy of Virginius. Tom Santschi, Frank Montgomery, Jim McGee, Frank Richardson, Stella Adams, Iva Sheppard, William Harris, Betty Harte, Roscoe Arbuckle, Robert Z. Leonard were among those in it.??“(Francis) Boggs asked me as we finished this picture in three days, if I could remember another Roman story that we could do with this scenery and costume investiture. I was able to dig one out.”?Photo above shows Selig’s lot in Edendale where he built the first official motion picture studio (LAPL)?Remembering the early days of the Edendale studio, Bosworth said:??“This was a little frame hall used by a local improvement society with little cubicles for dressing-rooms, a barn at the back for props and scenery and in front of it a little 16×20 platform of asphalt or cement with two by fours laid laterally to nail the braces to. Great things sprang from that little source, great things for Los Angeles, greater for the world.”??Tragically, the first celebrity murder also occurred here on October 27, 1911 when Frank Minematsu, the studio caretaker, went berserk and shot and killed director Francis Boggs. In the struggle to retrieve the gun, William Selig?was shot and wounded in the arm. ??Ironically, the day before Boggs’ murder, producers David Horsley and Al Christie made their first film in a little community to the west called Hollywood. ??Film companies that popped-up in Edendale near Selig-Polyscope?included Pathé, Bison and Mack Sennett Studios. ??In 1915, Selig moved his company to Lincoln Park where he also established a zoo, and the Edendale lot was taken over by Fox Studios. Over the years several production companies produced films on the old Selig lot, including J. Warren Kerrigan Studios, Marshall Neilan Studios and Garson Studios where Clara Kimball Young produced her films. Among those who made films here were Thomas Ince, Conway Tearle (Michael and His Lost Angel, 1920) and Marie Prevost (Beggars on Horseback, 1924). _____________________??A map of the studio when it was known as Garson Studios in the mid 1920s. Note: The street address was originally Allesandro before it was changed to Glendale.??Postcard of the former Selig-Polyscope Studio (known as Garson Studios here) in the mid 1920s. (Postcard courtesy of Greta de Groat)??Above is the site of the former Selig-Polyscope as it appears today. Compare it to the postcard above. The?inclined street on the left, which?is Clifford, and the hill in the background have not changed.?Another angle of the former location of Selig-Polyscope Studios.?Sadly, the site of the former Selig-Polyscope studios is now an empty lot in a mostly industrial area. The community that surrounds the spot and the people who pass by are most likely unaware of the historical significance of the site. It’s unfortunate that an archeological dig could not be done there before a warehouse or some other industrial building is constructed. ____________________________________________?Book/Film News , Film History | Tags: Al Christie, Betty Harte, Clara Kimball Young, David Horsley, Edendale, Fox Studios, Francis Boggs, Frank Minematsu, Garson Studios, Hobart Bosworth, J Warren Kerrigan, Kathlyn Williams, Lincoln Park, Mack Sennett, Marshall Neilan, Pathe, Robert Z. Leonard, Roscoe Arbuckle, Selig Polyscope, Selig Studios, Selig Zoo, The Spoilers, Thomas Edison, Thomas Ince, Tom Mix, Tom Santschi, William Farnum, William N. SeligComments(15)PagesAboutArticlesCelebrities in Los Angeles CemeteriesCelebrities in the 1930 CensusMargaret O’BrienMiriam HopkinsRamon NovarroThe Valentino MystiqueRecent CommentsAllan Ellenberger on Miriam Hopkins on TCMAllan Ellenberger on Obit…William GibsonEd Miller on Obit…William GibsonBarry Lane on Miriam Hopkins on TCMColleen on Miriam Hopkins on TCMRecent PostsMiriam Hopkins on TCM Joan Rivers Obituary The last days of Rudolph Valentino…Part Ten The last days of Rudolph Valentino…Part Nine The last days of Rudolph Valentino…Part Eight ? dTuesday, July 14, 2009 HYPERLINK "" The birthplace of Hollywood goes unnoticed at the end of an Echo Park offramp The southbound drivers who descend down the 2 Freeway where it melds into Glendale Boulevard are greeted with a weed filled lot and the shell of an abandoned building. It's not pretty but this is the birthplace of the Hollywood movie industry. Really. One hundred years ago this summer, Chicago-based HYPERLINK "" Selig-Polyscope came HYPERLINK "" to this spot in a community then known as HYPERLINK "" Edendale and began churning out silent pictures in the region's first permanent movie studio. Other early filmmakers, such as Mack Sennett, also set up shop along what is now the border of Echo Park and Silver Lake. But don't go looking for any monuments or signs marking this homely historic spot There is none, and the site of the Selig-Polyscope seems destined to be forgotten.The most recent effort to build a monument near where the Mission-style facade of the Selig-Polyscope studio once rose came from a developer who planned to build condos on the lot, said film historian Marc Wanamaker. But the real estate bust snuffed out that project and the developer was never heard from again."It was sad," said Wanamaker, who has long dreamed of a Selig-Polyscope monument. "I had my hopes up."It's not like Hollywood has not completely forgotten about the Selig-Polyscope studio, which later served as the home for HYPERLINK "" William Fox, Garson HYPERLINK "" and other studios. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences is HYPERLINK "" marking the centennial of Los Angeles film studios with an exhibit in Hollywood. HYPERLINK "" Hollywood Heritage is also planning an event for October and the Echo Park Historical Society (I'm a board member) will screen silent films later this month to honor the 100th anniversary of the first Edendale studio. But with the exception of Wanamaker and a few others, no one has expressed much of interest in placing a monument sign near 1845 Allesandro Street (now Glendale Boulevard), where film pioneer Col. William Selig established his West Coast outpost. Writer Allan Ellenberger in his HYPERLINK "" Hollywoodland blog describes the city's first movie studio lot:"Edendale soon became Selig-Polyscope’s headquarters. Selig sparred no expense in fitting up the permanent studio. The company built the exterior, which faced Allessandro (Glendale) Street, to represent an old Spanish mission and used genuine adobe. In the interior was sunk an enormous water tank. The studio itself, composed entirely of glass, was the second largest of its kind in the world at the time. It contained stages, dressing rooms, offices, and a modestly sized film laboratory. The total cost of the studio renovations was estimated to be a quarter-million dollars."In October 1911, the Selig lot was the site of another historic Los Angeles event, the movie industry's first celebrity murder. The shooting death of director Francis Boggs by a studio worker came one day after the first film was shot in a community to the west called Hollywood, notes Ellenberger."Sadly, the site of the former Selig-Polyscope studios is now an empty lot in a mostly industrial area," writes Ellenberger. "The community that surrounds the spot and the people who pass by are most likely unaware of the historical significance of the site."Many residents may recall seeing a small obelisk standing on the former Selig-Polyscope lot when it was the site of a printing company. That was indeed a monument to an Edendale film maker but not Selig-Polyscope. That monument was a misplaced tribute to a Sennett, whose studio, a city landmark, was actually located a few blocks further south on Glendale Boulevard ( HYPERLINK "" see related story).Wanamaker and Hollywood Heritage still hold out hope that one day a Selig-Polyscope monument of some kind will be installed near the lot. At this point, Wanamaker would be happy with just some plaque embedded in the sidewalk. But, with the fate of the property up in the air and HYPERLINK "" a freeway project in the works, it's not certain when or if the studio site will ever be recognized."It's a wait-and-see thing to see when the property is more stable," said Wanamaker. "But we are committed to doing something. One day."Bottom images from HYPERLINK "" Posted by The Eastsider LA at HYPERLINK "" \o "permanent link" 8:40 AM Labels: HYPERLINK "" Echo Park, HYPERLINK "" filmmaking, HYPERLINK "" history 2 comments:Anonymous HYPERLINK "" \l "c1185179376439473560" July 14, 2009 at 8:55 PMinteresting. kind of sad. infinitely more interesting than reading the usual yuppies vs. gang bangers drivel. HYPERLINK "javascript:;" \t "_self" ReplyAnonymous HYPERLINK "" \l "c3253654076333271912" December 2, 2009 at 2:08 PMKeep up the good work. I just recently discovered that there is a staircase to no where that used to lead to Coogan's Bluff where people used to peer into the Polo Grounds in New York. At the base of the stairs is a plaque dedicating the stairs to then owner John Brush 1913 - amazing this even survived but even worse that we have no regard. Thanks for this! Rick HYPERLINK "javascript:;" \t "_self" Reply ................
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