The House That Shadows Built (1928)

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Record Details:

Title:
The House That Shadows Built
Date:
1928
Publisher:
New York: Doubleday
Volume:
The House That Shadows Built
Leaf #:
000214
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
August 29, 2024
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194 the house that SHADOWS BUILT academy in Fifty-sixth Street. His competitors, expressing a fine tradition of American business, offered him a loan of all their spare facilities. He sped arrangements for resuming production at the earliest possible moment. His anxious associates wondered if he lacked imagination. In truth, he had too much imagination; he was shutting the door on it lest it overwhelm him. “ I wouldn’t let myself think that those films might be gone,” he said afterward. “I was afraid I’d break down if I did.” Even on the fateful morning when mechanics and firemen lowered the cooled safe from the wall and set it in place to open he remained in his temporary office, madly at work. Frank Meyer laid a trembling hand on the lock. No, he had not thrown in the combination! He took a long breath, opened the doors. Not even the edge of a film was scorched ! Tradition in the moving-picture business calls this the great crisis of the Famous Players. Zukor disagrees. The company was on its feet now, past the peak, a going concern. Even had these films burned, he believes that he would have fought through. The really dangerous crisis was that “low spot” of the summer before — the episode of Daniel Frohman’s check. This was his last flirtation with financial embarrassment. Henceforth, he struggled not against bankruptcy, but toward leadership and control and power.