Talking pictures : how they are made and how to appreciate them (1937)

Record Details:

Title:
Talking pictures : how they are made and how to appreciate them
Date:
1937
Publisher:
London : E. & F. N. Spon, Ltd.
Volume:
Talking pictures : how they are made and how to appreciate them
Leaf #:
00044
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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3 A SINGLE-MINDED COMMUNITY In order that we may understand the making of a picture today, we must know the past, and that we have reviewed. Let us assume that we have decided to visit Hollywood and that we are traveling on a plane westward bound from Chicago. Arriving in California, we pass over an enormous natural barrier, the Sierra Madre Mountains. We rise over their jagged peaks and coast down through lower levels into long, fruitful valleys. We speed over orange groves, over little towns and farms scattered here and there. We come to Los Angeles, which, geographically, is said to be America's largest city. Like a carelessly thrown blanket, it spreads from the mountains to the sea. Some loose folds stray up canyons which cut deeply into mountains; others stretch to the edge of the blue Pacific. At the upper end of the blanket, sheltered by rolling foothills, lies Hollywood. We see palm trees along its streets, its mansions, and its little houses, many in Spanish plaster and red tile. From the air, with the exception of its distinctive California atmosphere of Spanish houses and semitropical flora, Hollywood is very much like any other well-planned residential community. In fact, it is such [24]