Show TOE moved ANY million dollars 12 lars are invested v in motion picture studios in in southern california climate and scenery there gilve ja 1 ideal for producing the filmed drama by J C LESSEN HE F fir first I 1 mat motion on picture forture maker went to LOB loa angeles cut cal to secure scenic or travelogue subjects hav I 1 ing IS learned from fro railroad folders of the b beautiful scenery there that vaa not more mora than eight you yeara ago the scenic sceal photographer secured the views desired and ad I 1 lett eft never one once suspecting that the 4 greater part of the industry would later find cal california forma the best place to make pictures about seven loam earb OZ ago another director discovered that government weather reports ah showed e wed t that h at full three hundred day days of each year th the is sun BOB shone brightly end and thia line me man frank boggs induced life employers the selig belig company with producing plant the then located 1 in chicago to senda send a company to los lee angel angels s to open a studio ATI an effects of the company were packed in a small trunk tr k the first studio opened by the or gna tion lion was on the root roof of a downto down downtown tw be building ming the first fil picture I 1 cost s less ia the than three hundred t econs bodt dollars flo llara and consisted a ot aas less thea than thousand leei feet since aiace that day the greatest motion pieter picture the wr world ld ha has ever EC seen on costing tog more 0 m the than a go ter million was mad made but a eh short it distance from the location cation of the fi first rat studio but that 1 is getting ahead ban d of my story cu cutting 9 cost I 1 in prodoc u tion um was as so pleasing to this ono one manufacturer that b he could it not at keep beep X tr the s secret of hl his success one the word reached his competitors and thoy they 1 in vesti gated eta statistics amo ea co corn piled by the gov government and A few months the later late I 1 5 och voige so 5 cut bent companies west G west became the slogan aon of 01 makers or of can cann ed a meat at end and on one after another es ta S 1 plants itta in or near los angole eles be besides a des the tha advantageous climatic conditions condition there them are am other reasons for film producers going to california within a radius of fifty nines miles of lo 10 los angel angelea a practically say any kind of a scene a us de 01 maya sired may ba shot shat it was waa not until do during ing the last sear ear or eighteen me months amb 5 that manufacturers r came to realize fully cametto that the producing end ad of the industry it u stry should be ba 1 located in california and now that some fully fed y appreciate the economy of such a move they are bunding building expensive permanent Der manent plants before decisions decision for this move were reached however eve every excuse was offered for or contina ing 1 IH the east and attempts made to prove the emm correctness etness of each one of them for a big ex pease la Is added athen hon the selling department of a C concern er is located in new lork lark city three thousand chousa it miles from freas the manufacturing g plant pilot no new york city has always been and it no doubt will for or years yen remain the theatrical center of this continent thors thera it I 1 is that all big theatrical producing 0 organizations he have their headquarters and a as the motion picture haa he to a very great extent tak taken en the place of legi legitimate I 1 met at stage a go drama imad comedy end and musical shows show BIM ani Is conducted largely by far former on or theatrical men 1 it its b daa tera should the m manageri ma E think continue in this eastern metropolis V with ith the offices and belling ailing force fare at one aidor side the continent end and the manufacturing at the other additional expense I 1 is caused led he bv the tha seed need of each keeping in touch with the other all of the communications go by wire and the telegraphic expense of some borne companies ex ceede a thousand dollars per month in one or two instances instance wires across the continent tire are leased from the t telegraph emai companies mC id and opera PC tors ter maintained it at the now new york office and ad the studio in the so came manner or as newspapers loss lease wires for newa new re received feied this has mate materially I 1 hilly and at the a came nem t time iran added d d lo laened lessoned ened the h a expanse speed and nd efficiency to the service ervice of the co corn tallies pas A As the manufacturers manufacturer come ca to r realize lis the ere eco comical need of continuing permanently the wait mak Cill california frOm they have has ing 0 of I 1 motion pictures 1 tn gradually improved their properties there ther the first val universal 3 producing company arrived thanksgiving 1911 and ad tho the in man 1 in L los angeles ager get director scenario no to writer 1 ter 1 artist superintendent tem i end and proper property ty me man n laboratory actor at al E christie with his bis hard band of I 1 t thirty hirty I leased id d a barn bar to save eve the cost of buying muslin emelin there would be 0 no shadows b dew that to Is use as claths cloths be o 1 in the pie pictures t I 1 res and ell all ie faces and firm images g C br be plain which consisted C aided of a mere mare he be caused aimed the stage tIg I 1 in the north tb side aide of the fi bat at platform to be b built could war work all it day 1 in the the players b barn wh where shade without the sun ban spoiling a single scene fr from this very hum humble in lona bp ginning lug has grown lity in the world do devoted voted ex municipality the be an only to the manufacture of motion pictures pie turn universal four billea ill adorth orth of ia los king magpies etc ahn mammoth plant consists colon of almost t thur bur river valleys hills bill contains certain a hundred acres to nooks suitable b Is for filming scenes cos and ad pie picturesque tos divid divided ad into a I 1 tw two sections ties b because tb grounds gro ands are the be through csutor 0 f four foot hills ex extending g in 1 first aro am the either aid side with ith I 1 alleys toy on administration buildings a cafe with a capacity of serving orie one thousand people an hour barber manicuring hair dressing and photography shops the laboratories where iles all film filin is de and a positive print rint made a wardrobe department ft here clothing tor for an army can be ba had at a minute notice no matter what boat nation the army la Is to to aci sent here too will be found the dressing rooms ot of th the h five a hundred players the carpen carpenter tc shop seen scene painting studios studio and ad five mammoth stages with a floor space apace bamia lent to fun four aars acrs C all but buildings di gs are of concrete and steel beyond the foothills are other stages tog and the zoo which contains approximately two hundred wild gild animals trained to work in pictures across the road from this I 1 Is an honest to good ress ness wild west horse home and cattle corral and ad be annh houses for the cowboys th the a big grounds a are dotted at all times with settings Bet tings built for this or that production on one sida will be seen a coal mine white while a tew raw feet ey away 1 is a reproduction production from photographs of a strict been acone I 1 in calm cairo egypt egeit or the bowery of new york possibly a scotch scene or the nathe but of at tie rican savages age one of I 1 lose sets fifty to five hundred feet long I 1 Is frequently erected at a cost of several everal I 1 thousand in nd dollars dollar and torr ton do down after th making of from one a to three the hundred feet of at film that faill ill require one to in five file minutes to show at the theater it I 1 Is very seldom U that at the same citing betting is used in more than one production the worlds a orld a greatest privately owned tied collection or of wild EAM Is said it to ie that at um the a zoo of I 1 the selig bellg company located ner near ati a public public park on historic mission road leading into los log ange les a from the famous san gabriel missions T thia his b big lg show VT place a built nt at an expense of more the than tb two hundred 0 mired than thousand it dollars con bains thirty eight acrea crea thirty of which are taken up in animal houses ans and plus peas and d beautiful lawns and groves in all there are seven hundred or OP more sp specimens alumn including fifty lions lion a herd of ling ant dr crovea eve of scores com of at mon an key keys s and d many Y rare animals tog together other wi with th birds end ad reptiles from fee very every part of the world orld all arg maintained at I 1 ad to for 70 ji a use in tie pictures tures and that chev may have homelike settings sit 9 to work in duplicates of their native hearts b hae been built on the grounds ground each one strong ly closed to prevent escape ape IS injuries uries or fatall tie ties to emp employ loCC ees W within I 1 this the belig clig loo were Is made alt 11 scenes comme ter for the fifteen episodes P of ad the first serial erini motion picture th the adventures Advent urea of kathlyn Ket blyn bah had bad an east india inch locale local to gothe gether I 1 with scores of other great anima pictures her hare also Is was built wed and filmed the alaskan ill vl loge lage for the spoilers spellers adapted from the story by rex beach one of the two most meet P pictures altre made ad more than a quarter of a million dollars Is being spent PC 1 in go of a Ti ammoth oil studio at culver a suburb of L los angeles h b the new york motion picture corporation since 1810 1910 this company be bus eased a tract cruel or if ground consisting of acres thirty miles southwest of los loa angeles where cattle ill raising be haa been base conducted in 1 corm connection with the making of mo tie tion pictures picture the reason tor for leasing this groat great tract ran was waa that the company originally intended making king only western drosa d rosa later ahe kinds kind of stories were filmed and recently the producing thomas H ince became manager or I 1 director one I 1 V house of representatives seen d 1 3 st S t nal v italy D ming C ages cepro or of the three points of the triangle film corpora tion lion which e inaugurated in new york k phi philadel 1 adel phia bad and chicago mot met so on picture th theater a stee pro grams grain where aw two del dollars are was hadged for the best mar beats t th the new P plant will consist ot a ba I 1 twenty or r more concrete end steel fireproof buildings 11 ding including nine separate with ground glass stages one for each producing arg aniza tion lion the will have e ever every comfort omar t including individual dressing rooms with cheam heat beat eleo elec trio tans fees and hot and cold water etc factories in connection with the plant will manufacture all set sets furniture and wardrobe needed the I 1 ranch a studio will be maintained and there two big or making western drama will be ba main tamed joined every hamlet in the country has been invaded by Ke keystone bestone stone c comedies modies made in los angeles four years year ago the nucleus eus of th athla to company con of mack S sennett it mbel normand and ad fred move mace arrived the there a and rented a vacant lot now how the keystone studio occupies two city blocks block a for practically halt of which space la Is C cov v ered with stages where fun making reigns su so preme padded bricks bill billies and trick props of every nature from a toy warship to an nero aero alne are on hand bond at eve every turn and her here are to he be found the greatest collection of comedians the world has even known weber and fields sam bernard eddie eddia foy raymond hitchcock roscoe roccoe arbuckle Ar bucklo chester conklin charlie murray at 0 murray and mack fame and scores of others who have graced the comedy and v vaudeville and cilie stage or the sawdust ring as headliner head liners fun ni making kag la is inre a serious proposition and the bundled bombed 0 odd dd player pl ayera writers and directors treat it as aa such each even the famous keystone cop cops the producing quarters of the maker of the most moat profitable motion picture ever filmed the birth of a nation adopted adapted by david david mark grit cgriff alth frons from the be book it the Chins clansman cres consists of two city blocks at present ona m taken up with executive office buildings stages stage and ad dressing rooms laboratories and factories and the other block retained as a site for settings Bet tings mr air grit aith came to los angeles in january 1914 and leased a lot let containing a bungalow back of this he built a stage and began work rk additions to the producing staff were made ad BO frequently that no time could be given for future planning As AB the line result it seems scores of buildings w were erected mcd as needed for workshops developing and ad printing laboratories dressing rooms etc so eo that the studio now h has a a hit or miss appearance where about five hundred people a are to e employed lo 10 fully rz two hundred being actors actresses a and writers I 1 in F february no blu 1914 a livery stable in hollywood h had later been used for a garage was leased by two to men well known know 1 in the tha theatrical producing world old and they agn bagan making a B motion picture along new lines that their method I 1 was successful is proved by the tact ft that five its 1 sines I they thay bei hare found it jt it use necessary y to 1 lease 18 8 ad dit lonal ional grounds and their plant raw now covers I a bloc block by feet and the studio I 1 is crowded anen the men were ere jesse L ol sky previously a vauda vaud ville producer slid and cecil B d de mille legitimate stage producer and playwright their company be became the jesse L bashy 1 k y P picture play flay company corora uy madame and thee during the last year introduced ed amer b lea greatest opera star geraldine Gerald lne farrar on th the motion tie picture screen acres MA miss farrar worked it at t the be studio gwehe weeks in the makini ot of three ill five reel subjects at a salary of more mom than a dollar a minute in a brief manner the foregoing describes describe the producing plats of the largest makers makere of motion pictures there are many other studios studio in los angeles with R from one to four companies work ing at each ach it would be amoss ibb to go from am rry the center of the bics district to tha be city it limits mi to in any direction coming tog upon pon one or nr ran more to mitlon P picture leture pl |