Movie Studios of Culver City (Images of America)

Cerra, Julie Lugo; Wanamaker, Marc

ISBN 10: 073858200X ISBN 13: 9780738582009

Verlag: ARCADIA PUB (SC), 2011

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Reseña del editor:

After watching pioneer filmmaker Thomas Ince film one of his famous Westerns on Ballona Creek, city founder Harry Culver saw the economic base for his city. Culver announced plans for the city in 1913 and attracted three major movie studios to Culver City, along with smaller production companies. "The Heart of Screenland" is fittingly etched across the Culver City seal. These vintage images are a tour through the storied past of this company town on the legendary movie lots bearing the names of Thomas Ince, Hal Roach, Goldwyn, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Lorimar, MGM-UA, Columbia, Sony Pictures, DeMille, RKO-Pathe, Selznick, Desilu, Culver City Studios, Laird International, the Culver Studios, and such nearly forgotten mini-factories as the Willat Studios. On these premises, Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Citizen Kane, E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial, and other classics were filmed, along with tens of thousands of television shows and commercials featuring Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Michael Jackson, and many others.

Biografía del autor:

Author Julie Lugo Cerra, Culver City s official historian, dovetails her unique sense of industry history in the city with the evocative images of Bison Archives, one of Southern California s largest historical-image collections, owned by coauthor and film historian Marc Wanamaker.

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• Verlag: ARCADIA PUB (SC)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 073858200X
• ISBN 13: 9780738582009
• Einband: Rústica
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128