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G.P. Harleman, Moving Picture World, New York, Nov. 10, 1917.
WHERE CHARLIE CHAPLIN WORKS
The noted screen comedian has perhaps the most unique
studio in the world. The outside represents an old
English village street. The executive offices occupy the various
cozy looking homes.
(...) Photo, Exhibitors Herald and Motography, Aug. 30, 1919
„The effect of a picturesque English village street“
Editorial content. „News of Los Angeles and Vicinity
By G. P. Harleman“ (...)
„Chaplin‘s New Studios
$100,000 Film Plant and Residence to be Built
in Hollywood ba Famous Comedian.
Unique among the motion picture producing plants
of Southern California will be the studio to be built in Hollywood
by Charlie Chaplin
The plant will be at once a workshop and a home for the
film comedian, but it is declared that every effort will
be made to get as far away from the shop aspect as possible.
Mr. Chaplin has acquired as a site the beautiful estate
of R. S. McClellan at the southeast corner of Sunset Boulevard
and La Brea avenue.
The property comprises nearly five acres and is for the most
part covered with old orange trees, there being a sightly
ten-room Colonial house set in the midst of lawn and gardens
fronting on Sunset boulevard. The holding extends back
along La Brea avenue to De Longpre avenue, having a frontage
of six hundred feet on the former by three hundred feet
on the latter, with three hundred feet on Sunset.
The north half of the property, on which stands the house,
is to be retained by Mr. Chaplin and his brother as their
home. The south half, cornering at La Brea and De Longpre,
will be used for the studio, which will front on La Brea.
Six buildings of English architecture will front on the street,
and these will be so arranged as to give the effect
of a picturesque English village street. As planned, they offer
no hint in their appearance of the purpose for which
they are intended. The stages, dressing rooms and other
buildings will be well back from the street and out
of the view of passers-by.“ (...)
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