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The INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER
September, 1929
The First News Weekly
The first news weekly in motion pictures was "The Argus W ' eekly," organized in 1912 by Enrique Vallejo, Harry Revere, Dal Clawson and Bert Longnecker.
Its slogan was "The Argus Eye Sees All" and its home was the two little bungalows which stood at 4500 Sunset where t h e Tiffany-Stan! studio now stands, the site being also the original Griffith studio.
In these bungalows those pioneer News men had a laboratory, dressing room and office and they prospered from t h e beginning.
Their first releases were the various Los Angeles theatres like Chines, Talley's, Lyceum, Burbank, etc., and they were all set to make a fortune when Pat
The row of trees back of the hay field is Vermont Avenue; the car is standing on Sunset Boulevard just opposite the site of the old Griffith Studio; Hollywood Boulevard follows the line of telegraph poles just over beyond the contented co<w. B ert Longnecker is driving the E. M. F. and Enrique Vallejo is the sheik grinding the Lumiere.
Powers came along one day and convinced the boys that what they needed was to make feature pictures and, after brief negotiations, they traded "The Argus Weekly," E. M. F. run about, Lumiere camera and an assorted lot of camera angles for a lease on a parcel of ground up near Del Monte with the privilege of using the sky, ocean, woods and the old Carmel Mission ad lib.
What happened to the new group of producers is another story but "The Argus W eekly," under Mr. Powers, forged ahead and was later absorbed by other weeklies which were organized by the larger companies just then coming into the pro d u c t i o n field.
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