For more than one hundred years, the Los Angeles area has been shaped and reshaped to accommodate filmmakers' visions. It has played everything, the old South, Africa, Switzerland, Rome, ancient Greece, the Middle East, and even outer space. The location images in this book capture a time, a place, and a culture. The book is by no means comprehensive, but it presents a survey of the filming locations from the 1910s through the mid-1970s. This is the result of a runaway production in Hollywood and greater Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce enticed filmmakers with sunshine that promised 350 days of sun. Film pioneers like Thomas Ince and David Wark Griffith found LA the best location. Griffith filmed his 1915 The Birth of a Nation at his studio on Sunset Boulevard and on location in the Hollywood area. In 1925, after a wasteful stint in Italy, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer brought its multimillion-dollar Ben Hur to Los Angeles and recreated Rome on a vacant lot at the intersection of Venice Boulevard and Brice Road (now La Cienega Boulevard). The show-stopping chariot race was one of many epic scenes staged by creative filmmakers in the Los Angeles basin.
There are numerous black and white pictures of some of most successful movies of the golden age and early Hollywood. You get to see film locations around downtown, Hollywood, Santa Monica, Malibu, Long Beach, Culver City, and Beverly Hills. The pictures are absolutely adorable and bring back the glory of the old studio era and its efforts to become a major industry in entertainment. This book is a must have for anyone interested in the history of Hollywood.
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Through a collection of vintage photographs, the Images of America series allows readers to explore the history that makes each city, town, or state unique.
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| Ciro's: Nightclub of the Stars | Hot Rodding in Santa Barbara County | 1906 San Francisco Earthquake | Joshua Tree National Park | Fort Bragg | Paramount Studios 1940-2000 | |
| More History from California | The elite Hollywood regulars at Ciro's included some of the most popular names in entertainment at the time, such as Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, and many more. | Hot Rodding in Santa Barbara County takes the reader back in time with a collection of remarkable photographs from the earliest days of the hot rod movement. | The Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906 is an unparalleled disaster in the history of San Francisco. More than 4.5 square miles of San Francisco burned and crumbled into a windswept desert of desolation. | Human use of Joshua Tree National Park may extend as far back in time as 10,000 years. From the early Pinto Culture to modern tribes, native peoples have lived and hunted here for centuries. | In 1857, Fort Bragg was an Army post on the Mendocino Indian Reservation. Coastal California north of San Francisco had been home to the Pomo and Yuki people for thousands of years. | This book picks up the story during the time of WW II--a successful era for the studio--which was followed by a decade of decline due to the rise of TV. By the 1960s, the studio teetered on the brink of bankruptcy before rebounding. |
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