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Dunham Thorp, Motion Picture, New York, December 1928.

Charles Chaplin and Harry Crocker, undated,

Discovering Chaplin

& Studio Staff

Assistant, Harry Crocker (...)

The Circus Program, Grauman´s Chinese

Theatre, Hollywood, 1928

& Cinemania in a Hollywood Museum

(...) Studio and Screen, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn,

New York, Nov. 18, 1928

& A glimpse of the unique museum whose counterpart

exists nowhere in the world.

(...) Photo, Admission Twenty-Five Cents,

Picture Play, Jan. 1929

„So he went to Charlie, his boss, and begged the item“

Editorial content. „Art: Gilt and Golden

      Hollywood Has Historical Museums of Both Sorts

      By Dunham Thorp

     Two down, and –– how many generations is it that

the sins of the fathers still go visiting? Our sainted cinema,

born of penny arcades and art museums, has now,

in its twenty-oddth year, whelped a two-bit peep-show

and a Cinematograph Museum.

      The former makes a slight bluff at being inspired only

by an altruistic yen to satisfy the frustrated yearnings

of out-of-towners barred admission to the lots. But this is only

for politeness‘ sake, and is not insisted on. They‘re perfectly

willing to be frank, and admit that it‘s really nothing more than the

bright idea of an already wealthy young man to make himself

even more so –– a good thing, while it lasts.

      Harry Crocker, the son of a San Francisco millionaire,

and an assistant to Charlie Chaplin, is the young man. And to this young man came a vision: hosts, hordes, myriads and

multitudes storming studio gates, only to be turned away with

their curiosity still unsatisfied. Maybe these people would

pay to have this craving fed? And if they would? Divide a myriad

by four, and you still have plenty dollars.

      So he went to Charlie, his boss, and begged the item that

is still the most cherished in his whole exhibit: his original

costume –– shoes, pants, coat, cane, and all. With such a start,

could he fail? He didn‘t.“ (...)

      Second of nine photos: „Charlie Chaplin‘s original outfit.“

      Harry Crocker‘s Motion Picture Museum on Sunset

      Boulevard in Los Angeles opens August 31, 1928 and closes   

      January 1, 1929.

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