Ebook: Early Poverty Row Studios
Author: Stephens E. J., Wanamaker Marc
- Tags: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, Motion picture industry, Motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles--History, Motion picture studios, Motion picture studios--California--Los Angeles--History, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Telecommunications, Electronic books, History, Pictorial works, Motion picture studios -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- Pictorial works, Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- Pictorial works, California -- Los Angeles
- Series: Images of America
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
- City: California;Los Angeles
- Language: English
- epub
The history of Hollywood is often seen only through the lens of the major studios, forgetting that many of Tinseltown's early creations came from micro-studios stretched along Sunset Boulevard in an area disparagingly known as Poverty Row. Here, the first wave of West Coast moviemakers migrated to the tiny village of Hollywood, where alcohol was illegal, actors were unwelcome, and cattle were herded down the unpaved streets. Most Poverty Row producers survived from film to film, their fortunes tied to the previous week's take from hundreds of nickelodeon tills. They would routinely script movies around an event or disaster, often creating scenarios using sets from more established productions, when the bosses weren't looking, of course. Poverty Row quickly became a generic term for other fly-by-night studios throughout the Los Angeles area. Their struggles to hang on in Hollywood were often more intriguing than the serialized cliffhangers they produced.;Southern California's first Poverty Row -- Hollywood's original Poverty Row -- Gower Gulch and the Beachwood Drive Studios -- East Hollywood's Poverty Row -- More early Hollywood studios -- West Los Angeles's Poverty Rows -- Other early Poverty Row studios -- From Poverty Row to the big time.
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