US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Michael Balcon hopes to return to England and produce films as good as those with American backgrounds, if not better. Representative lawyer of M.G.M. and Fox Paul Koretz observes that Hollywood became famous for motion pictures while Vienna, Austria, became famous for its' composers. Koretz, Mayer, and Balcon stand together in front of scarce bushes on a brick path overgrown with grass. Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Briton Sets Screen Goal," Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar 1935: A3. Text from newspaper caption: VISITORS LAUD HOLLYWOOD Guests of Louis B. Mayer at M.G.M. studio yesterday where they extolled American films were (left to right) Dr. Paul Koretz of Vienna, Mayer, and Michael Balcon, head of British Gaumont. (pg. 16) Text on negative sleeve: Koretz, Paul Dr. Text from negative sleeve: KORETZ, PAUL DR.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_5390 ark:/21198/zz002cvdgw
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Foreign visitors--British--California Gaumont British Picture Corp Motion picture producers & directors--British--California--Los Angeles Foreign visitors--Austrian--California Lawyers--California--Los Angeles Motion picture producers & directors--American--California--Los Angeles Mayer, Louis B. (Louis Burt), 1885-1957 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Koretz, Paul, b. 1885 or 86 Balcon, Michael, 1896-1977
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