File:Nestor-Studios.jpg

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English: 1911 photograph of the first film studio in Hollywood, on the corner of Gower Street and Sunset Boulevard
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    From the film exhibit at the Los Angeles Museum, through the courtesy of Earl Theisen, is loaned the photograph of Hollywood's first motion picture studio. It was on October 17, 1911, David Horsley's Nestor company reached Hollywood from Bayonne, N. J. Six days later was taken the first shot at the northwest corner of Gower and Sunset, the plot on which later was to rise the Christie studio. The corner subsequently was to be referred to more or less humorously as Forty-second and Broadway of the film centre.
  • Earl Theisen was editor of International Photographer and collected items of film history for the Los Angeles Museum, now known as the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
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Source International Photographer, Volume 4, Number 5 (page 11)
Author Unknown authorUnknown author, collection of Earl Theisen
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