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  2. Painted photography backdrops - Wikipedia

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    Newark, New Jersey, 1912. From roughly 1860 to 1920 [1] [2] painted photography backdrops were a standard feature of early photography studios. Generally of rustic or quasi-classical design, but sometimes presenting a bourgeoisie trompe-l'œil, [3] they eventually fell out of fashion with the advent of the Brownie and Kodak cameras which brought photography to the masses with concurrent ...

  3. Hollywood: Incredible Then-and-Now Photos

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    The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel was opened in 1927 by power investors such as Sid Grauman and movie stars Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, an investment by United Artists and MGM to host guests ...

  4. RKO Forty Acres - Wikipedia

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    RKO Forty Acres was a film studio backlot in the United States, owned by RKO Pictures (and later Desilu Productions), located in Culver City, California.Best known as Forty Acres [1] and "the back forty," [2] it was also called "Desilu Culver," [3] the "RKO backlot," and "Pathé 40 Acre Ranch," depending on which studio owned the property at the time.

  5. Warner Bros. Ranch - Wikipedia

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    Columbia Pictures, with limited space at its Hollywood headquarters at Sunset and Gower, had been forced to rent neighboring movie studios' backlots for outdoor shooting. . By the end of 1934, this problem was solved when studio head Harry Cohn acquired a 40-acre (160,000 m 2) lot in Burbank at the corner of Hollywood Way and Oak Street, on what is said to have been the Burbank Motion Pictures ...

  6. Movie backdrops exhibit set to open at Boca Raton ... - AOL

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    Hollywood's iconic larger-than-life scenic backdrops are going to be on display at an exhibit opening at the Boca Raton Museum of Art on Wednesday. Movie backdrops exhibit set to open at Boca ...

  7. PHOTOS: Hollywood’s biggest movie stars who visited Fort ...

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    Fort Worth was a frequent stop for some of Hollywood’s biggest movie stars during the 1940s and 1950s. These photos from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s archive capture some of the glitz and ...