BIBFRAME Work

Title

Movie-made Los Angeles

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Trafton, John, 1982- (author )

Subject

• Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) (LCNAF)
• Motion pictures--History (LCSH)
• Motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles (LCSH)
• California--Los Angeles (FAST)
• Motion picture industry (FAST)
• History (FAST)
• Motion pictures (FAST)

Language

• English

Illustrative Content

• illustrations

Classification

• DDC: 791.430979492
• LCC: PN1993.5.U65 T67 2023 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography
• index

Summary

Los Angeles was a cinematic city long before the rise of Hollywood. By the dawn of the twentieth century, photography, painting, and tourist promotion in Southern California provided early filmmakers with a template for building a myth-making business and envisioning ideal moviegoers. These art forms positioned California as a land of transformative experiences and catapulted the dusty backwater town of Los Angeles to the largest city on the west coast by 1915.

Table of Contents

Introduction: "300 days of sunshine" -- 1. Semi-tropical California -- 2. California in Plein air -- 3. Selig builds a zoo -- 4. Don Carlos -- 5. Off the record -- 6. Sunshine modernism -- 7. Movie-made Los Angeles.

Authorized Access Point

Trafton, John, 1982-. Movie-made Los Angeles

Geographic Coverage

• California

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:15:48.829136+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 22899630

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc