MOVIES HOLLYWOOD and the SILVER SCREEN A look at the movers, shakers, and big, big stars who helped shape California as the entertainment capital of the world 1898 California's first ad Shooting footage to promote tourism in the West, Thomas Edison's crew films the start of San Diego's streetcars and a rabbit hunt in front of Hotel del Coronado. hoteldel.com 1913 Action in Lasky-DeMille Barn Jesse Lasky and Cecil B. DeMille rent a horse barn to shoot the region's first feature film. The site now houses the Hollywood Heritage Museum-check out DeMille's signature megaphone, jodhpurs, and riding crop. hollywoodheritage.org 1920 Action in the high desert The Roundup is filmed near tiny Lone Pine, at the base of the Eastern Sierra; its weirdly eroded Alabama Hills stand in for India, the Himalaya, and the Sahara. (Recent films include Gladiator and Iron Man.) lonepinefilm historymuseum.org 1915 Studio tours debut at Universal Studios Universal Studios Hollywood offers the first tours of its 230-acre ranch (admission is 25 cents-an extra nickel gets you a chicken boxed lunch). universalstudioshollywood.com 22 | VISITCALIFORNIA.COM LPETTET/iSTOCK; DAVE LAURIDSEN; COURTESY OF UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOLLYWOOD; KODIAK GREENWOOD FLASHBACK ON FILM: KEY DATEShttp://www.lonepinefilmhistorymuseum.org http://www.lonepinefilmhistorymuseum.org http://www.hoteldel.com http://www.hollywoodheritage.org http://www.universalstudioshollywood.com http://www.VISITCALIFORNIA.COM