Manuscripts

Motion Picture Industry - Miscellaneous

Description: Approx. 40 items. A collection of varied materials on southern California's motion picture industry: Notable items: 49-pp. monograph, ca. 1930, "Amazing career of the Warner Brothers..." by Esther Hamilton ; copied book excerpt, Los Angeles - City of Dreams, by Harry Carr, 1935, Chptr. XXII, "The Studios" ; approx. 16-pp. copied from "How the Screen found its Voice," 1946, Chpt. One, "Out of the laboratory" ; book excerpt, "Hollywood...the toll of the frenzied Forties," Our Times, 1957 ; book excerpt, Introduction to Hollywood in the Forties, 1968 ; book excerpt, The Parade's gone by, 1969.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1930 - 1969
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Chandler, Raymond

Manuscripts

1 item: 30-pp. excerpt (Chpt. 3 - "The Novelist") from Down these mean streets a man must go, by Philip Durham, 1963, a book on Raymond Chandler and his writings.

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Approx. 25 items: collection of book excerpts, newspaper and magazine articles, flyers, monographs, etc. Notable items: booklet, University of Wisconsin - Alumni Directory of the School of Journalism, 12/1950 ; approx. 30-pp. copied from a Thesis presented at USC for a Political Science M.A., title "The World as seen through Los Angeles editorials, 1939-40 and 1954-55" by Clifford Gewecke, Jr., 1/1956 (includes Title pages, Table of Contents, Chpt. 1, "Problems and procedures," Chpt. VI, "Summary and conclusions," and a Bibliography ; booklet, A comparative analysis of foreign news in newspapers of the United States and South America by James W. Markham, Penn. State, 1959 ; 37-pp. Thesis presented at Cal. State Fullerton for M.A. in Communications, "California journalism 1850 - 1920... an annotated bibliography with index" by Joanne Ashley Newman, 1976 ; cover and article copied from The Quill, 4/1982, "John Naisbitt...Tomorrow's news today" (Note - cover caricature is of Otis Chandler & Katherine Graham) ; 12-pp. program / booklet, Urban Archives Center (Cal State Northridge), First Amendment Exhibit, 1987; issue of newsletter, Collections (from Urban Archives Center, above), "Exhibit on First Amendment continuing in Oviatt Library." Split into two folders.

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Journalism (2 of 2)

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5941 Hollywood Blvd. (L.A.) - Specs. for [Hawaii Theatre] Class "A" 2-story motion picture theatre and store building

Manuscripts

1 item: approx. 50-pp. (blueprint sheets) of text - specifications for construction of Hawaii Theatre, 5941 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood district of L.A.

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Ethnic Groups - American Indians

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: a collection of LAT article clips and copies on various aspects of American Indians. The earliest examples are from 1886, 1888, and 1889, exhibiting a wide range of attitudes towards "the indian problem." Also a 1973 "rereading" and fresh review, by Robert Kirsch, of the novel Ramona (1885) and a 6-pp. excerpt copied from West of the West, by Robert Kirsch and William S. Murphy.

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Motion Picture Industry - Clippings (2 of 2)

Manuscripts

Approx. 70 items: selection of LAT clips, many as early as the 1910s, on film studios, filmmaking and the on and off-screen behavior of actors and actresses, plus information from other sources. Split into two folders.

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Motion Picture Industry - Miscellaneous

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