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Moving Picture World, New York, July 17, 1915.
Work Scenes
& A Hysterical Landmark Back in the time when movie-making
was at the height of its madness, the Bradbury mansion
in Hollywood was used by the great and the great-to be as both
a location and a studio. No one has ever counted the
bruises born of slapstick falls upon its stairs. (...) They and
pictures like them will soon be all that remains to
recall the old Bradbury house, for it is now being turn down.
(...) Motion Picture, June 1929
& Bradbury Mansion, Chaplin‘s new studio after returning
in April 1915 to Los Angeles –Chaplin Essanay Studio,
Los Angeles, undated, California Historical Society, Title Insurance
and Trust Photo Collection, Department of
Special Collections, University of Southern California
„Charlie is some boy in the picture game“
Editorial content. „SEEING LOS ANGELES
FILM STUDIOS THROUGH THE
MEGAPHONE; A ,TRAVEL AND SCENIC‘“ (...)
„A Few Moments with Chaplin
Jolting over Mission road to Brooklyn avenue, we will
swing up the hill and around Fairview avenue
to No. 651. The green fence encloses Charlie Chaplin
and his warriors who drive away gloom. The
management adheres strictly to the ,keep out‘ sign and
not even trade paper men may enter the studio.
The fireproof, burglarproof, airtight vault in the center
of the grounds was constructed for the protection
of Charlie‘s mustache, his fifty thousand dollar shoes, his
English walking coat of the vintage of ’59, that
cute little bamboo cane, and his million dollar salary.
Charlie is some boy in the picture game,
for he writes his own scenarios, produces the picture,
plays the whole show and gets away with it
in three hours‘ work each day. This secluded spot was
selected for a studio as it is sufficiently far enough
away so that no one will be distracted by the falling of bricks,
and so forth.“ (...)
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