A glorious addition to the visual holdings of the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences comes from the purchase of 70,000 print photographs from the private collection of Marc Wanamaker of Bison Archives. [...]
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29 March 2012
A glorious addition to the visual holdings of the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences comes from the purchase of 70,000 print photographs from the private collection of Marc Wanamaker of Bison Archives. [...] 13 April 2011
An edgy, even freaky, scene between Boris Karloff as the sensitive monster Frankenstein and a cute little girl was filmed at a place called Malibou Lake, north of Los Angeles. [...] 20 February 2011
A yummy new book “Location Filming in Los Angeles,” written by arts·meme pal, Marc Wanamaker in collaboration with Karie Bible and Harry Medved, provides a delicious historic photo-tour of location shooting all around our fair city, including a rare shot of James Dean, filming “Rebel Without a Cause.” [...] 8 March 2010
Anna Pavlova’s sole appearance in a feature film was in “The Dumb Girl of Portici” by Universal Pictures in 1915. Even Hollywood’s highest paying director, a woman named Lois Weber, did not succeed in bringing out Pavlova’s soulful quality. [...] 23 February 2010
Carl Laemmle, the entrepreneur/founder of Universal Pictures, was not just a pioneer of filmmaking. He augmented studio revenues by allowing spectators to filmmaking, which had great appeal in Los Angeles in the ‘teens. [...] 1 April 2009
Was Theodore Kosloff a fine ballet instructor? Malcolm McCormick, co-author of the 20th century dance history book, “No Fixed Points,” says: “Kosloff was sending dancers to New York in the 1950s. They arrived strong and rigorously trained — they had been required to wear weights on their angles to develop strength.” [...] |
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