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3S2 Round the Studios
incidentally, it is interesting to note that, between June, 1930 and Ma}', 1931, this studio supported the " colour film " movement to the extent of making nine films in colour.
Culver City
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation, Culver City, Calijornia.
SHOULD you look down from an aeroplane over Culver City, yoii will see, spread out beneath you, a sharply-defined rectangle of a town. It is bounded on one side by a long, straight road, on another by a broad, tree-lined boulevard, while a third imposing highway leads up to the main gates of this walled city.
You will notice that the town, in spite of its size, consists of eight main buildings of gigantic area. It is here that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer make their films.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, where Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer ,Wallace Beery and a dozen other first-class favourites make their films. M.G.M. — with the "roaring lion " trademark — whose studio-gate is as difficult to pass as the entrance to a lion's den. There are few privileged visitors strolhng between the big buildings. M.G.M. stars are closely guarded.
Should you be one of the favoured few, you will see laundries in the Culver City precincts, where all sorts of cleaning is done, from wispy gowns to yards and yards of linen and canvas. There is more than one " drug-store," where you may buy soap, razor-blades, or the ice-cream beloved by all Americans. There is a modiste's shop and a restaurant where you may eat the finest meal in California.
The cutting-rooms, property -vaults, test-rooms and laboratories are the finest of their kind in the world. There are numerous pits and stages for special processes. The dressing-rooms provided for the stars are palatial suites, with reading-room, rest-room, and bath-room with showers and plunges. Ramon Novarro had a piano in his.
Culver City — eight miles from Holl3rvvood, the film-centre — is just another film-centre.
Movietone City
Fox Film Corporation, Movietone City, Weslwood, California.
THE Fox Film Corporation began its activities in California nearh'' eighteen years ago on a single open stage surrounded by a fence, opposite the old ]\Iack Sennett studio. A staff of about 100 was the sum total of its production-unit.
Early in 1932, the Fox organization moved from its then studios on Sunset Boulevard, HollyAvood, to the enormous £5,000,000 premises of Movietone City, in Beverly Hills. There you find a talking-picture town nearly a mile long and half as wide, containing 108 acres of propert3^ The main studio buildings alone cover a 54-acre space, surrounded by a 14-feet high wall. There are 75 permanent buildings, all fireproof and built of concrete and steel in the most modern style. There are acres of exteriors, duplicate settings, and scenery from every quarter of the globe.
The studios contain 12 sound-stages, each one cooled in summer and