The New Movie Magazine (Dec 1929-May 1930)

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Photograph by Don English. Map reproduced by permission of Rand McNally S: Company. Copyright by Rand McNally & Company. WHY THEY MAKE MOTION PICTURES IN CALIFORNIA The map of California, as reproduced above, hangs in the office of Fred Harris, location manager of the Hollywood studios of the Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corporation. This map, if you look at it closely, shows how famous foreign localities may be duplicated without difficulty within a few miles of the motion picture capital. For instance, a director can shoot a swell reproduction of the old time Mississippi up near Sacramento and he can move down to Leguna Beach and get a perfect background for a South Sea yarn The Red Sea, if anyone besides Cecil De Mille wants to part it, can be caught out at the Salton Sea. Spain, the French Alps, Switzerland, Holland and Long Island Sound are all knocking at the door of Hollywood. That's why the capital of motion pictures never will move far from Hollywood. No where else could the screen catch difficult background so easily. 96