Location Filming in Los Angeles
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More About This Title Location Filming in Los Angeles
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Los Angeles has reigned for more than a century as the world capital of the film industry, a unique and ever-changing city that has been molded and recast thousands of times through the artistic visions and cinematic dreams of Hollywood's elite. As early as 1907, filmmakers migrated west to avoid lengthy eastern winters. In Los Angeles, they discovered an ideal world of abundant and diverse locales blessed with a mild and sunny climate ideal for filming. Location Filming in Los Angeles provides a historic view of the diversity of locations that provided the backdrop for Hollywood's greatest films, from the silent era to the modern age.
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Karie Bible is the official tour guide for Hollywood Forever Cemetery and creator of FilmRadar.com, dedicated to Los Angeles repertory and revival films. She has lectured at venues including the RMS Queen Mary and has appeared on Turner Classic Movies. Marc Wanamaker is a founding member of the Hollywood Heritage Museum and is the owner of Bison Archives, a historical research resource. His books for Arcadia Publishing include two-volume sets on historic Beverly Hills and Hollywood. Harry Medved, who has coauthored books such as Hollywood Escapes, has served as public relations director of the Screen Actors Guild, Warner Bros. Online, and Fandango.
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Title: New Book Celebrates Location Filming in Los Angeles
Author: Richard Horgan
Publisher: fishbowlLA.com
Date: 12/3/2010
Once upon a time, the Hollywood film industry term "runaway" referred only to the character of a street urchin in a narrative. Not the idea that our city's once prosperous production activities are being hijacked to Vancouver, Melbourne, Bucharest and beyond.
This week, as part of its "Images of America" series, Arcadia Publishing has released a wonderful pictorial trip down memory lane to that time when the great majority of studio movies were shot locally. Each chapter of Location Filming in Los Angeles focuses on a different corner of LA, using sepia tone photos provided by Marc Wanamaker, a founding member of the Hollywood Heritage Museum and owner of Bison Archives.
Assisting Wanamaker with text and liner notes for each photo were FilmRadar.com's Karie Bible, also the official tour guide of Hollywood Forever Cemetery, and Harry Medved, author and long-time industry PR guru, currently for Fandango.com. From the get-go, the trio of authors sets the record straight as to just exactly when and how our local feature film industry got started.
In 1907, director Francis Boggs came to California for the Chicago-based Selig Polyscope Company to film a few beach scenes for Monte Cristo. Later, in March 1909, Boggs and the Selig company returned to California and set up temporary operations in the drying yard of the Sing Kee Laundry on Olive Street between Seventh and Eighth Streets in downtown LA. It was at the Chinese laundry drying yards that Boggs shot the first narrative films made entirely in Los Angeles.
Stars showcased include Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis at the Hollywood Bowl, Rosalind Russell at Occidental College and Natalie Wood on the Santa Monica Pier. Great stuff.
Author: Richard Horgan
Publisher: fishbowlLA.com
Date: 12/3/2010
Once upon a time, the Hollywood film industry term "runaway" referred only to the character of a street urchin in a narrative. Not the idea that our city's once prosperous production activities are being hijacked to Vancouver, Melbourne, Bucharest and beyond.
This week, as part of its "Images of America" series, Arcadia Publishing has released a wonderful pictorial trip down memory lane to that time when the great majority of studio movies were shot locally. Each chapter of Location Filming in Los Angeles focuses on a different corner of LA, using sepia tone photos provided by Marc Wanamaker, a founding member of the Hollywood Heritage Museum and owner of Bison Archives.
Assisting Wanamaker with text and liner notes for each photo were FilmRadar.com's Karie Bible, also the official tour guide of Hollywood Forever Cemetery, and Harry Medved, author and long-time industry PR guru, currently for Fandango.com. From the get-go, the trio of authors sets the record straight as to just exactly when and how our local feature film industry got started.
In 1907, director Francis Boggs came to California for the Chicago-based Selig Polyscope Company to film a few beach scenes for Monte Cristo. Later, in March 1909, Boggs and the Selig company returned to California and set up temporary operations in the drying yard of the Sing Kee Laundry on Olive Street between Seventh and Eighth Streets in downtown LA. It was at the Chinese laundry drying yards that Boggs shot the first narrative films made entirely in Los Angeles.
Stars showcased include Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis at the Hollywood Bowl, Rosalind Russell at Occidental College and Natalie Wood on the Santa Monica Pier. Great stuff.
