Hollywood Studio Magazine (September 1968)

Page scan 0006 from Hollywood Studio Magazine

Record Details:

Title:
Hollywood Studio Magazine
Date:
September 1968
Publisher:
San Fernando Valley Pub. Co.
Volume:
Hollywood Studio Magazine (September 1968)
Leaf #:
0006
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Recorded Sound",Vaudeville,Theatre,Broadcastin
Collection:
Fan Magazines and Hollywood Studio System
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Hollywood Studio Magazine was published out of the San Fernando Valley in various iterations (and various titles) from 1966 until 1992. What started as a local organ aimed at the workers of Hollywood ended as a nostalgic fan magazine about Hollywood Then and Now. The various title changes and revisions to its mission reflect not just the economic realities of magazine publishing, but a changing relationship to Hollywood and the industry itself. The earliest issues of Studio Magazine read like a house organ of a steady, entrenched industry documenting the comings and goings and notable events of the San Fernando Valley, with special emphasis on Universal. Fandom first became part of the discourse of the magazine through collecting. The Collectors’ Column page beginning in the early 1970s allowed memorabilia collectors to advertise their wares to each other. In 1983, the founder of the magazine, Dorothy Denny gave over the reins to Ralph Benner, the founder of Tiger Beat. This marks the clear separation between the original publication and its focus on Hollywood production culture and the move toward a publication centered on star narratives and fan culture. In covering the two and a half decades from the collapse of the system to the point where classical movie stars were phantoms instead of living people, the magazine offers insight into the transformation of old Hollywood from a lived reality to a memory to a myth.
-- Luci Marzola
Date Added:
September 29, 2022
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UNIVERSAL TOUR GUIDE GETS AROUND T here’s a motto that’s driven into the marrow of every student attending Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. It goes, “when you wake up, get up. When you get up, do something.” Twenty year old Carole Alston has never visited Morehouse and probably never heard about their aggressive motto but she lives it nonetheless. Carole, a tour guide at Universal City Studios, has been selected to receive the 1968 National Junior Achievement Award by the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, Inc. Universal will fly her to Dallas, Texas, August 9th to accept the award and address members of the organization at their national convention. It’s definitely not a mystery why she was selected for the top honor. “The last three years of my life have been jammed with all sorts of goodies,” she says modestly. The “goodies” consist of a summer spent on an Indian reservation (“I just wanted to see first hand how they live”); a semester at the University of Guadala¬ jara living with a native family that spoke only Spanish, German and French; and three trips around the world as a student on the floating ship of the University of the Seven Seas. “I toured every country in the world except Russia and North Africa,” she smiled, “but I intend to get there even¬ tually.” If Carole ever sat down long enough to jot down highlights of her globetrotting excursions, the account would be an automatic bestseller. “People are very special to me but I Carole Alston, Tour Guide with Gene Barry.