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| Date: | 02 23 1954 |
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| Description: | Anamorphic lens, used with "Cinemascope" movies in the Orpheum Theatre, 216 State Street. |
| Date: | 02 26 1954 |
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| Description: | RCA Artcraft and IPC Simplex Cinemascope projector equipment used at Orpheum Theatre, 216 State Street. |
| Date: | 04 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Show window at the Sherwin Williams Paint Store, 327 State Street, featuring a display announcing an upcoming movie at the Capitol Theatre titled "It's a P... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | General view of the American Film Company studio located at State Street and Mission Street in Santa Barbara, California. The American Film Company, also k... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of D.W. Griffith's motion picture studio in Mamaronek, New York. Griffith bought the 28-acre estate of Henry Flagler on Orienta Point in 1919 a... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The Bostock Arena and Jungle, part of David Horsley's Centaur motion picture studio and animal attraction in Los Angeles, c. 1915. "The Moving Picture W... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | The Dixieland Theatre in South Jacksonville, Florida, before it was converted by the Gaumont Company into a film studio. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Production still showing how three or more silent film scenes could be simultaneously filmed under the glass roof of the Thanhouser studio. The print is ca... |
| Date: | 04 17 1928 |
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| Description: | Mr. Sutton and Fay directing a scene for the movie "American Girl." Eight people are standing in front of an Oakland automobile and airplane, and four more... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Two men synchronize the sound on an International Harvester film narrated by Chet Huntley at International Harvester's Hickory Hill Farm. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Photograph of the winter studios of the Kalem Company showing outbuildings on the grounds of the Roseland Hotel on the St. Johns River near Jacksonville, F... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | A man operates a film reel inside a room at International Harvester's Hickory Hill Farm. |
| Date: | 08 10 1954 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from street at night of the Photo Copy Service and Madison Film Productions, Inc., building at 211 West Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Thomas H. Ince gestures to a cameraman who is moving a Bell & Howell camera on its tripod. Over Ince's shoulder is William S. Hart in costume as a minister... |
| Date: | 02 23 1954 |
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| Description: | RCA Artcraft and IPC Simplex Cinemascope projector equipment in projection room with operators, at the Orpheum Theatre, 216 State Street. |
| Date: | 08 27 1957 |
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| Description: | Harry Schuler mans the two projectors in the Orpheum Theatre projection booth. At the right are two of the spotlights used for stage shows. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Charging that the Fox West Coast Theatres constitute an arrogant monopoly which seeks to stifle the endeavor of motion picture artists a... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Max Sennett Studios. There are many open-roofed studios with cloth diffusers. A huge sign reads: "Paramount-Comedies-Mack Sennett-Come... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | A woman spools motion picture film onto a reel at International Harvester's Hickory Hill Farm. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Cameraman Jules Cronjagger and director Ralph Ince shoot a scene with Earle Williams (as Tom Barclay) and Anita Stewart (as Celestia, the Goddess) in the V... |
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