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Title
View of an outdoor film set at Vitagraph Studios, showing a film shoot in progress, 1917
Date Created and/or Issued
1917
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a view of an outdoor film set at Vitagraph Studios, showing a film shoot in progress, 1917. A film set sits in the grass at the center of the image, bounded by wooden walls on all sides except for the front. Several workers sit on the top of the set, while other crew members sit in the grass in front of the set. The camera sits on a platform in the left centerground of the image, along with the cameraman and director. Actors occupy the stage of the set. The structure of another film set is visible in the right background.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m11932
USC-1-1-1-12084 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-31135
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m11932
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-31135.jpg
Subject
Industry--Film
Motion picture industry
Actors
Vitagraph Studios
Performance sites
Time Period
1917
Place
California
Hollywood
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-32- [Microfiche number]
31135 [Accession number]
CHS-31135 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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