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Title: Film replica honoring pioneers
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1960
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Commemorating the work of eight film pioneers who led the fight against Beverly Hills' annexation by Los Angeles in 1922, a 30-foot marble monument was dedicated at Beverly Dr. and Olympic Blvd. on March 9, 1960. A spiraling bronze replica of a strip of motion picture film is topped by a 14-karat gold star. Among filmland personalities taking part in the fete are, left to right, Conrad Nagel, Corinne Griffith, Mary Pickford and Harold Lloyd.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00049869
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2010
CARL0000054115
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/18002
Subject: Nagel, Conrad.--1897-1970
Griffith, Corinne
Pickford, Mary,--1892-1979
Lloyd, Harold,--1893-1971
Monuments--California--Beverly Hills
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Spectators--California--Beverly Hills
Crowds--California--Beverly Hills
Motion picture industry--United States--History
Men--California--Beverly Hills
Women--California--Beverly Hills
Streets--California--Beverly Hills
Olympic Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Beverly Drive (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
Beverly Hills (Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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