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heated in winter with washed-air. Outside, tliere are otBce-buildings, industrial blocks, a fine clubhouse in its own park, tire and police stations, and a modern caf6.
All the chief members of the Fox staff have their own bungalows in ]\Iovietone City ; tifteen were built for the writing-staff alone. There is even a squared-U of buildings, separate and sectionalized, which is known as " Director's Row."
Movietone City has been constructed as a self-supporting and entirely self-contained community. It is laid out in a manner which produces a really fine " landscape " effect in the beautiful surroundings of Beverly Hills. The principal players are catered for even more lavishly than the directors or the writers. Rows of orange trees front their dressing-room windows. Will Rogers has a small, desert-style bungalow with a cactus garden ; next door is the thatched-roofed Irish cottage of Janet Gaynor, which was originally built as a studio daytime home for John McCormack, the Irish tenor.
The electricity system at the Fox studio is in itself a marvel. It develops 12,000 electrical horse-power, which would be enough to light a city of 20,000 inhabitants. All this power comes from a huge turbo-electric plant hundreds of miles away in the Sierras. Its initial pressure of 33,000 volts is broken down at the studio electric plant to one of two pressures — 2,300 or 220 volts — according to special requirements. Thence it is distributed through the 54 miles of conduit, under Movietone City's live miles of paved streets, to do its work in the thousands of sun-arcs and spotlights used in the studios.
Paramount Studios
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A LITTLE group of film personalities was gathered round a luncheon table in the Paramount studio restaurant on December 30, 1931, to celebrate Hollywood's eighteenth birthday. It was on the morning of December 30, 1913, that Cecil B. De Mille called " camera " for the first scene of The Squaw Man, Hollywood's very first feature-film. It was the initial production of the Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company, now called the Paramount Publix Corporation.
The events which led up to the selection of Hollywood as the centre of the motion picture industry are closely linked with Paramount's history. Cecil B. De Mille and Jesse Lasky met in New York, in the autumn of 1913, to discuss their plans for the winter vaudeville season. They were joined by Dustin Farnum, who had just finished a tour in the stage play, The Squaw Man. Lasky and De Mille decided to form a fihn company, and invited Farnum to join them in putting up £1,000 capital. He refused, but agreed to work for them on a weekly salary. It was a fateful decision that cost him several million dollars in after years, when the two originators of Paramount were reaping the rewards of their enterprise.
De Mille went west from New York, intending to choose a site for his studio in Arizona. But the weather in Arizona was cold and cloudy that winter, and he went on to the little town of Hollywood. There he rented