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Purchase Hollywood Movie Studio Photographs

Posted By Bruce Torrence on Sunday, May 06, 2012 6:19:00 AM  |  Comment on This Post

                           Purchase Hollywood Movie Studio Photographs

Everyone is fascinated in Hollywood and particularly Hollywood Movie Studios.  From the time the first motion picture company called Hollywood their home, the public has been captivated by the entire movie making business.

The first motion picture company to permanently move to Hollywood was the Nestors Film Company.  They rented the former Blondeau Tavern at the corner of Sunset Blvd. and Gower St. and immediately began making one and two reel movies.  Because Hollywood offered such a wonderful climate and a very diverse geography, this was like heaven to them.

Shortly after the Nestors Film Company settled...

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Hollywood's Movie Studios Today

Posted By Bruce Torrence on Monday, August 01, 2011 2:16:00 PM  |  Comment on This Post

 

Hollywood Studios Today

Although the advent of new technology and out of state incentives has helped spread filmmaking across the country, Hollywood still claims studios that have stood since the early days of cinema.  Although changing hands and  names in the past century, they retain the history and glory of the nascent filmmaking era.

The first and the last major motion-picture studio in Hollywood, Paramount Pictures on Melrose Avenue has produced movies at its current location since 1926, with roots firmly planted by Adolph Zukor as far back as 1912 including “Sunset Boulevard”, “Psycho”, “White Christmas”, “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, and “The...

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Historic Hollywood studio is updated with new buildings

Posted By Bruce Torrence on Monday, July 18, 2011 9:07:00 PM  |  Comment on This Post

HISTORIC HOLLYWOOD STUDIO GETS NEW SOUNDSTAGE

A clutch of city officials and film industry promoters gathered Monday morning on the same lot in East Hollywood where Mary Pickford once worked to celebrate a rare occurrence: the opening of a new soundstage in Los Angeles.

Hollywood-based Occidental Entertainment Group Holdings, which owns a dozen local soundstages and other entertainment businesses, unveiled a 14,000-square-foot, 54-foot high soundstage on the historic Occidental Studios lot, along with 6,000 square feet of hair and makeup facilities, dressing rooms and office space.

That’s hardly extraordinary in a city that boasts about 300 soundstages, many of them much larger. But the opening is unusual because...

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