A pictorial history of the movies (1943)

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Record Details:

Title:
A pictorial history of the movies
Date:
1943
Publisher:
New York : Simon and Schuster
Volume:
A pictorial history of the movies
Leaf #:
00029
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
June 20, 2024
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GERTIE THE DINOSAUR (1909) 15 Al Christie began his screen career as actor and director in "Westerns," as the above— shot in the vast prairies around Bayonne, New Jersey, about 1909-indicates. In the fall of 1911 Christie and a group of actors went West, arriving in Hollywood late in October. The company stopped at Blondeau Tavern, an old roadhouse at the corner of Gower Street and Sunset Boulevard. Christie was so struck by the beauty of the location that he closed a deal whereby, for thirty dollars a month, he was allowed to set up his cameras in the back yard and shoot his pictures against the semitropical vegetation surrounding the inn. ABOVE RIGHT Bosworth remained under the Selig aegis for many years as director and leading man. Here he is (at right) in the 1909 production of The Count of Monte Cristo. When Theodore Roosevelt was planning his famous African expedition, a Selig cameraman was supposed to accompany him to make an exclusive record of the trip. At the last minute Selig lost out. Nothing daunted, he rigged up his own jungle in his Chicago studio, made up one of the extras as Theodore, and, aided by a trained lion and some tropical props, shot Hunting Big Game in Africa. The public flocked to it and refused to believe they were not seeing a genuine travelogue. We are told that even Africans considered it authentic.