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Great movies shot in Orange County that will live forever (or at least until 1934).
Published by Trabuco Canyon, Calif: California Classics, 1980, 1980
very good large black and white hardcover, BUT worn at top and bottom of spine. SLEEPER, JIM. Great movies shot in Orange County that will live forever (or at least until 1934). Trabuco Canyon, Calif: California Classics, 1980, vii, 199pp., . Incredibly detailed history, illustrated throughout with photos, advertisements. Documented with dense endnotes, a serious work indeed. - Indeed, many of the films and actors about to be presented must reckon among the all-time worst. By the same token, the reader will also encounter some of the best photoplays Hollywood ever produced, with a sprinkling of stars whose incandescence remains undimmed after more than a half century. But blockbuster or dud, neither selection rested on choice. Geography dictated the list. As diverse as are the films in this anthology (and a companion piece soon to fol-low), all had one thing in common. In part or in toto, they were all shot in Orange County. The author makes no pretense to being a film historian, less still to being a critic. However, he does possess a modest knowledge about Orange County's past, and an abiding interest to learn more. A bit of both led to the discovery that during the infancy of motion pictures, camera crews frequently invaded this countv to set up their tripods. So often, in fact, that owing to the variety of its towns and topography, between 1910 and 1930 Orange County might well have been called Hollywood's back lot. To the writer's amazement (and ultimate exhaustion), research revealed that no fewer than five hundred films, ranging from comic shorts and newsreels to full-length silents and even a few talkies, were made during this twenty-year period. Overall their locations captured every existing town-site in the county, and the sites of nearly every community which has developed since. Particularly gratifying was the discovery that many of these reels still exist. Today they constitute a flickering archive of tales set against a background of 50 to 70 years ago.
