a Few old movie Studios.

A lot has changed since I made movies in the 30s.. of course the photo above is me on a whim.
My favorite thing about Hollywood is seeing all the old studios.
Check out this link to read about the studios being haunted
http://www.prairieghosts.com/hollywood5.html


Outside the old Mack Sennett Studios








The above three photos are the old studios of
United Artists.
The last photo is so cool because the old plaque is still there.
The original studio was founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks 






Comments

  1. TheBlackPinaforeJune 14, 2013 at 2:10 AM

    What charm, beautiful photos, you look like a silent film star.
    That place is the mother of cinema.

    In Italy there is CINECITTA, inaugurated in 1937, at the behest of Mussolini's fascist propaganda he wanted to do with film.
    But by the 50s, after the war, became the boom film also for American filmmakers, especially the Roman colossal, including QUO VADIS and BEN HUR, but even now it is a destination for foreign directors, because of reduced costs.
    I have visited 2 times these studios, seeing a preview movie sets, while here and there in the path, you can see pieces of the 60 sets of films of Fellini, left to the elements, this made me a little sad.

    Debora

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