MOVIE INDUSTRY HAS GROWN OLD AND NEW STUDIO BUILDING

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 520, 24 November 1928, Page 15

MOVIE INDUSTRY HAS GROWN OLD AND NEW STUDIO BUILDING

ULU AliU 11LW OI UUIU ouiiiUinu Fourteen years ago two men, with the idea of making pictures, rented an old barn that nestled among the green meadows of Hollywood. Recently a wobbly old structure was removed with extreme care from one corner of the Paramount studios and placed in another position. It was the same old barn that was used in the production of the first picture of the infant organisation that was to grow into Paramount Pictures, “The Squaw Man.” In the years that followed there was a gradual addition of various buildings around the barn. Soon the studio grew too big for the ground on which it stood and it was moved to another part of Hollywood. The barn went too. Now it has had to make room for the latest development in the field of motion pictures, a sound projection x-oom. in which the new sound pictures will be seen and heard by the executives of the studios and the actors. Of the 70 odd pictures that Paramount will release in the coming year over 30 will be synchronised with sound. “Beggars of L.ife,“ the drama of tramp life in which Wallace Beery again plays a villiain’s part, will be one of the-first.