The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry (1914)

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of Science 2S9 penses bring the total cash outlay to about $4,000,000 yearly. Every old-established film company is represented by working forces in Southern California, with but two exceptions. There are now 73 companies at work and newcomers are arriving each month. Studios are at a premium, and new properties are being secured constantly for the construction of new plants. From all indications Southern California, now known as the Mecca of the "Movies," still is in its infancy as a motion-picture field. It is freely predicted by manufacturers that the film colony will increase fully 500 per cent, during the next few years. As a result of the film business, Los Angeles, and in fact the entire State of California, with its wonderful landscaping, perpetual summer, alluring vistas, mountains and shores, has been advertised throughout the world in a manner which literature could never hope to attain.