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Term: Hollywood

Description

Was laid out by Horace Wilcox from Kansas, as a community based on strict religious principles; mild climate attracted film industry in early 1900s; name is still synonymous with movie business, though today mainly television studios are located here. Los

Objects

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Super 810 8mm instant movie projector
circa 1970
Super 510 8mm instant movie projector
circa 1965
lantern slides
1900-1930
Super 810 8mm instant movie projector
circa 1965

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Technicolor Corporation

1914-present
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Fritz Lang

1890 - 1976
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Sir Alfred Hitchcock

English, 1899 - 1980
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Myles E. Connolly

1897 - 1964
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Photo Research Corporation

founded 1941

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