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David
Horsley, Pioneer Picturemaker
by Paul Mandell
"Environment
certainly affects creative workers. You real¬
surely the importance in such essentially sensitive pro¬
ductions as the making of Motion Pictures of having every
member of an organization awake in the morning and start
to work in a flood of happy sunshine."
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, 1919
ize
-
nobody was "doing lunch" in Hollywood.
only deals going down were the occasional regis¬
tries of real estate. Two decades
son
Wilcox,
a
earlier, Horace Hender¬
Kansas prohibitionist, had put the town
the map
by purchasing 120 acres of ranch northwest
Angeles. So enchanted was his wife Daeda by its
arboreal splendor, she named it "Holly Wood."
There were no smog alerts in 1910, because
there was no smog. Dispersion of early morning mist
revealed an Eden of orange groves, bougainvillea, and
rolling oat fields. Palm trees did not grow on cement
streets. People waited for the paint to dry Three miles
on
of Los
44
north
on a
there
was a
loom
over
American
The
Day of the Locust
"picture business" had been invented
back East, owing its first debt to the work of the
Lumiere brothers in France. When the Lumiere broth¬
projected their film of a train arriving head-on at La
patrons allegedly sprinted for the
exit door. The moving picture show, a new-born infant,
was about to be
slapped and burped into a global
industry.
As the century turned, New York City be¬
came a hotbed of
production and exhibition, engen¬
dered by maverick Jewish immigrants who had
abandoned their fur and junk dealerships for coinoperated Kinetoscopes and Mutoscopes. There
ers
Ciotat station in 1895,
In 1910,
The
wood Boulevards until 1916, and the
would not arrive until the twenties.
Lankershim
hilltop, the only Black Tower
Griffith's Babylon would not
dusty intersection of Sunset and Holly¬
weather
the
vane.
Cinematographer
seemed to be
a
future in what the blue
noses
wrote
off
"penny clap-trap." Across the Hudson, Thomas
Edison opened the Black Maria open-air studio in West
Orange. The Vitascope projection system, unveiled by
as
Edison and its inventor Thomas Armat at Koster &
Bial's Music Hall (where Macy's now stands) had been
the rage
March 1989
of New York in 1896, particularly when
one
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