Hollywood Studio Magazine (October 1968)

Page scan 0004 from Hollywood Studio Magazine

Record Details:

Title:
Hollywood Studio Magazine
Date:
October 1968
Publisher:
San Fernando Valley Pub. Co.
Volume:
Hollywood Studio Magazine (October 1968)
Leaf #:
0004
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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Bosworth, Inc., according to Moving Picture World, together with Famous Players Film Co. and the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co., comprised the Para¬ mount Pictures Corp. in 1914. Illustrative of their theatrical roots, Famous Players were affiliated with Daniel and Charles Frohman and Henry W. Savage, Lasky with David Belasco and the Liebler Co., and now Bosworth had its tie-up with Cort and Morosco. By the beginning of 1915, Bosworth was advertising its national headquarters as 211 N. Occidental Blvd., which would indicate an entrance slightly north of the studio’s present front door. Trade news a few months later referred to “The Morosco-Bosworth Studios,” when Mov¬ ing Picture World reported the signing of Shakespearean actress Victory Bateman.“In order to accommodate the increased activities at the Morosco- Bosworth studios,” said the publication, “the stage has been extended west so that it gains an additional area of over 2500 square feet. Another 25,000 square feet has been added to the facilities of the Council Street stage, devoted to big exter¬ ior sets, by fencing a solid 75-foot strip straight through the block, from Council to First.” This suggests that First St. has been renamed Hyans, the present northern boundary of the lot. Moving Picture World, early in 1917, reported “at the Morosco-Pallas Studios, which are now controlled by the Famous Players-Lasky Company, a new stage is being built and the plant so adjusted that it can handle at least six companies.” Motion Picture Studio Directory and Trade Annual for that year listed three producers or production companies at 201 N. Occidental Blvd. — Bosworth, Inc., Oliver Morosco and Pallas Pictures, Inc. By 1918, however, Bosworth had disappeared and the Directory listed Mor¬ osco Feature Play Co. and Pallas Pictures, Inc., as the two producers in residence. In 1919 the Directory named the site Morosco Studios under a Famdus Players-Lasky Corp. listing; in 1920, simply the Morosco Studios, and in 1921, Realart Studios, at BOTH 201 and 211 N. Occidental Blvd. Film Yearbook for both 1924 and 1926 lists the location as Famous Players-Lasky Corp., Wilshire Branch, un¬ der Studio headings, and also, for the first time, notes a film laboratory under the same roof: Roy Davidge & Co. Davidge, however, shortly thereafter moved closer to the heart of Hollywood. Standard trade references provide no information on the site for the next couple of years, vrtiich would coincide with the town’s convulsive shift from Aldrich Studios hostesses line up in front of studios on Occidental Blvd. From left: Minta Durfee Arbuckle, Betty Blythe, Claire Windsor, Conrad Nagel. From left: Jackie Coogan, Raymond Hatton, Wesley Barry. Page 5