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Title: Academy Awards' organizing banquet
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1927
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: This photograph of the first organizational meeting of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was taken in the Crystal Ballroom of Los Angeles' Biltmore Hotel on May 11, 1927. On May 8, 1977, the Academy celebrated its 50th anniversary with a luncheon in the same room. Bob Hope was the master of ceremonies, and several of the people who attended the original affair attended as special guests of honor. Some of the Hollywood pioneers in this photo are Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks (the Academy's first president), Louis B. Mayer, Jack L. Warner and Darryl F. Zanuck.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00044960
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 847; HE-002-275 4x5
CARL0000050201
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/14868
Subject: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Motion pictures--United States
Academy Awards (Motion pictures)
Anniversaries--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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