Show Pilm Industry Observes Birth At Hollywood HOLL HOLLYWOOD Feb 4 United Southern Press California today to to- day celebrated it twenty twenty first first birthday as a figure in the motion motion mo- mo tion picture February 4 1908 the Selig company of Ch Chicago started worl on Across the Divide Di Di- vide a western thriller which ran almost one reel The action for the picture was taken in the defunct Sing Loo laundry a which meas meas- tired 50 by feet and which has given way to one of Los Angeles Angeles' most pretentious build build- inge floe Southern California with Hot Hot- lywood as the center now produces pro pro- duces more than 85 per cent of the th worlds world's motion pictures At this time a super super- feature million dollar epic is shot on a acre 26 studio plant with scarcely more ado than was made about Across the Divide Commemorating the west coasts coast's entrance into what has turned out to be the worlds world's fourth greatest industry the Paramount studios stopped all allwork allwork work fOr a two minute period today at 11 a. a m. m m. m J |