“Maintained Solely for Your Benefit”

2021 ◽  
pp. 42-72
Author(s):  
Luci Marzola
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Motion Picture ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Industrial Cluster ◽  
Motion Picture Industry ◽  
Technical Training ◽  
Service Firms ◽  
Engineering Community ◽  
The Relationship

Chapter 2 centers on the specialized technology companies and service firms that formed around the motion picture producers in Los Angeles, creating an industrial “cluster” in the region. The movement of independent technology distributors, inventors, and laboratories to Southern California to cater exclusively to the needs of the motion picture producers was essential to the growth and stability of Hollywood. The relationship between the studio workers and companies such as Technicolor, Mole-Richardson, and Mitchell Cameras helped establish the community of Hollywood as the center of the motion picture industry, even as the studios themselves dispersed throughout Los Angeles. These companies, unlike their corporate brethren in the East, were eager to adapt their technical training to the creative needs of the studio, thus forming a unique engineering community around the production studios.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Cohan
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Motion Picture ◽  
Motion Picture Industry ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Silent Era

The introduction provides the theoretical argument of the book. It explains why the backstudio picture is not a cycle but a genre in its own right, and how the genre depicts Hollywood as a geographic place in Los Angeles, as an industry, and as a symbol. It goes on to show how the backstudio picture has historically served to brand the motion picture industry as “Hollywood,” working in much the same way as consumer brands do today. Additionally, the introduction provides a historical overview of the genre, focusing on its four major cycles of production, from the silent era to the present day. Finally, it briefly describes the content of the seven chapters.

Hollywood at Last

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan R. Eller
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Motion Picture ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
Motion Picture Industry ◽  
Fritz Lang ◽  
Ray Bradbury ◽  
The 1950S

This chapter examines the new and largely unexpected opportunities that were beginning to open for Ray Bradbury in Hollywood during the 1950s. During the summer and fall of 1952, Bradbury was able to establish his first writing credits in the motion picture industry. The proximity of the studios and the proliferation of affiliated and independent theaters in greater Los Angeles created many opportunities for him. Bradbury was already beginning to forge some lasting connections in Hollywood, thanks in large part to his friendship with cinematographer James Wong Howe and his wife, Sanora Babb. Howe introduced Bradbury to some of the legendary directors he had worked with, including Fritz Lang. This chapter considers some of Bradbury's notable Hollywood projects, including the screen treatments for Universal Studios's It Came From Outer Space, which he complemented with a variation of the story “A Matter of Taste,” and an offer to write a film titled Face of the Deep for Twentieth-Century Fox.

The City as Studio; The World as Back Lot: The Impact of Vertical Disintegration on the Location of the Motion Picture Industry

1986 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Christopherson ◽  
M Storper
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Motion Picture ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Motion Pictures ◽  
Motion Picture Industry ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Vertical Disintegration ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Motion picture production is currently carried out by small firms under contract to an independent producer rather than in large integrated firms, the major studios. In this paper the emergence of this vertically disintegrated industry is traced and its impact on the location of the motion picture industry is analyzed. Vertical disintegration has led to a reagglomeration of motion picture employment and establishments in Los Angeles, despite the dispersal of film shooting throughout the world. The processes that are shaping the present-day organization of motion pictures can be observed across a range of industries. An examination of these processes in motion pictures suggests that their association with reagglomeration in urban centers could have an important impact on patterns of urbanization.

scholarly journals Egyptian film censorship

2012 ◽  
pp. 21-36
Author(s):  
Dina Mansour
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Motion Picture ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Motion Picture Industry ◽  
Local Markets ◽  
Film Censorship ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
The Relationship

Films are a representation and manifestation of culture; yet, since the early days of filmmaking public debates have questioned whether “the motion picture industry was morally fit to control the content of its own products” (Robichaux). Today, the Arab world is plagued by the same dilemma. In a region where government censorship is the norm, heavy restrictions are imposed on locally produced films as a means of “safeguarding” public norms, religion and culture. Also problematic in today’s globalised world is the influx of foreign films into local markets, which not only defy public norms, but also represent cultural values and traditions that are quite alien to societies that have been inherently religious and conservative. Against this background, this article aims to analyse the role of censorship in Egypt with regard to the relationship between cinema and culture—a relationship often overlooked and perhaps intentionally ignored. In doing so, it will examine how censorship has traditionally been used as a tool to control the representation of existing social and cultural realities and to define cultural and religious norms, thus also affecting the normative context.

Southland Surf

2019 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-78
Author(s):  
Margaret DePond
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Motion Picture ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Dark Skin ◽  
Life Saving

Surfing was an Hawaiian cultural practice long before it became a Southern California sport. Hawaiian surfers George Freeth and Duke Kahanamoku popularized the sport at Los Angeles-area beaches. Freeth was sent to demonstrate surfing as a promotion of Hawaiian tourism. Both Freeth and Kahanamoku became promotional tools of Southland beach resorts. Their skills, their media-stereotyped Hawaiian personae, supposed links to Hawaiian nobility, life-saving exploits, and motion-picture promotion mediated their dark skin in race-conscious Los Angeles. By the 1920s, surfing (on lighter, shorter boards) had been adopted as a Southern California pastime.

scholarly journals The Entrepreneurial Role of Organized Labour in the British Columbia Motion Picture Industry

2005 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 531-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Network Model ◽  
Motion Picture ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Motion Picture Industry ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Industrial Governance

Research into an industrial sector reflecting principles of the emergent "network" model of production indicates that organized labour can play a positive role in post-Fordist Systems of industrial governance. Within the dynamic motion picture industry of British Columbia (B. C), organized labour was the key organizational factor in the birth and rapid expansion of the agglomeration ofsmall, specialized film production firms which has become a competitor for the coveted title of second largest film centre, after Los Angeles, in North America. In this process, B.C. film unions have become the dominant "actors " in forging collaborative relations between local production companies, between the sector and the state, and between the district and other film centers, so critical to the success of the network model.

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