Early Movie Studios




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File Name
V-0031F_012
Period
1915
Format
BetaCam SP
Length
00:04:07
Pricing
Regular rate
Timecode start:
00:27:30
Timecode stop:
00:31:37
Additional copies:
PLS16MM-1315-1_006 16mm

Master file available for standard delivery by Producers Library Team

b&w - silent film production history - narration - various stills and moving footage of silent film studios, film stars stills exterior various silent film movie studios w/ name in text graphic to identify: Universal Studio (1914), studio lot with water tower - pan left to right studio entrance - pan right to left interior studio building (built by Carl Laemmle, on Main St., Ft. Lee, New Jersey & taken over by Samuel Goldwyn Studio in 1916) still of studio soundstage interior (1917) still from scene of first film produced by Goldwyn, Holly of the Circus - pan still, c/u silent film star Mae Marsh c/u still actress, Madge Kennedy, plays bride in Nearly Married (1917) c/u still Marie Dressler in maid’s outfit, in scene from comedy movie Scrub Lady, Universal production (Ft. Lee) still of couple, Tom Moore and Tallulah Bankhead, in scene from Thirty a Week (1918) - zoom to c/u Bankhead c/u still Warner Baxter w/ Mae Marsh in scene from Goldwyn production, All Woman 1919 - c/u still from Louis Selznick production (Selznick took over Universal) c/u Olive Thomas who holds pug dog and Elaine Hammerstein - e/c/u still Norma Shearer - w/s stil production crew w/ Barbara Lamarr, still of exterior movie set, camera man, director, actors, crew, cast c/u still Dorothy Mackaill (British actress) and Richard Bartheimess, in last Universal production in Ft. Lee Fighting Blade (1924) - exterior still Seles Park Hotel on Anderson Avenue in Ft. Lee, where actors stayed, rested still of abandoned studio barn behind hotel where actors previously worked, made films c/u still G.W. Griffith, then pan to Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, they pose for photo (co-founders of United Artists Film Corp.) Ft. Lee heritage - zoom out of names of great silent film stars that worked in Ft. Lee, New Jersey, Theda Bara, Tom Mix, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, D.W. Griffith, Gloria Swanson, Sam Goldwyn, Madge Evans, Nita Naldi, Lionel Barrymore stills of studio exterior w/ name in texterior graphics: Champion Studio, Eclair Studio, World Studio, Paragon Studio, Solax Studio, Willat-Fox Studio, Universal Studio, LIncoln Studio Biography Company w/ still of actors, h/a down skyline of Ft. Lee - location of beginning of motion picture industry called Baghdad on the Hudson (note: WWI triggered move to California for better weather conditions for filming) motion picture history - aka Charles Chaplin