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Film Daily, New York, December 14, 1928.

Movie Museum in Hollywood

      By Mayme Ober Peak

      Chaplin‘s Original Battered Old Derby, Lloyd‘s

      First „Specs“ and Other Filmland Treasures Collected

      by Harry Crocker

      Photo. Charlie Chaplin at opening of movie museum

(...) Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York,

Oct. 14, 1928

& A FEW months ago Harry Crocker opened a motion

picture museum in Hollywood. He will close it January 1st. The

biggest day‘s business was $7.00. One woman drove

up to the place in a fine big car with a chauffeur, stepped out

with two friends to visit the museum, but became

absolutely horror-stricken when told that the price of admission

was twenty-five cents. „Oh, my land,“ she said, „we‘re

just out for a drive and we thought it was free.“ Somebody said

to Harry, „It seems a pity, Mr. Crocker, that Hollywood

won‘t support a venture as fine and clean as this.“ „I guess

that‘s what‘s the matter with it,“ replied Mr. Crocker,

rather sadly.

(...) Photoplay, Jan. 1929

      Harry Crocker‘s Motion Picture Museum, 5815

      Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, opens August 31, 1928

      and closes January 1, 1929.

„Talking pictures“

Editorial content. „Sound Films to be Highlight

      of U. A. Convention Today

      Chicago – United Artists home office executives, district

sales managers, branch managers and salesmen are

here for the first United Artists sales convention, which gets

under way here today and continues tomorrow. Al

Lichtman, distribution chief, will preside at the sessions,

to be attended by 125 members of his sales staff.“ (...)

      „Because two big topics up for discussion are talking

pictures and volume distribution, Al Lichtman has

summoned salesmen from all parts of the United States and

Canada to this convention.“ (...)

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