Image / Filming of "Cocoanut Grove"

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Title: Filming of "Cocoanut Grove"
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Filming of Paramount's "Cocoanut Grove" showing Fred MacMurray and other actors as they rode a string of flat-cars in the middle of a long freight train, while Director Al Santell directed from a special camera "train" created by converting a motor car to a railroad flivver.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00013578
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA (9326); Moving pictures-Studios-Paramount.
CARL0000020810
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/86253
Subject: MacMurray, Fred,--1908-1991
Santell, Alfred,--1895-1981
Paramount Pictures, Inc
Cocoanut Grove (Motion picture)
Motion picture studios--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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