Film Industry in 1930s
Tarit Tatiyarat
ENGL102
10.00am-10.50am
Barbara Kline
Marketing in 1930s and 2013
Seattle, the crowded city that was full of theaters and super stars. Many people came across the world just to see and buy the films. It is the place where the film was distributed through out the state. Numerous questions were popped up into my mind about what Seattle was like about almost 100 years ago.
Walking around the neighborhood, I was impressed by the mysterious building. I was really curious about what kind of building it is and who used to live in that mysterious outstanding building. I went check for that person from the City Directory in Seattle Public Library and I found it. According to the City Directory, person name was Langdon C. Wingham, a manager of M-G-M. He is a white male who was born around 1896 and he was a resident of Seattle. He had been working in Film industry over ten years under M-G-M. I looked up in censuses of him and I found that in 1930s, the marital status was married but the census from 1920s and 1940s was single. After went through Seattle Public Library website, I found the article about the divorce of him and his wife. According to the article, Mr. Langdon C. Wingham complains about his wife playing golf “almost continuously” and in the end, they got divorced.
That building was the most beautiful building in the block and everyone that passed by will have to stop and look at it. The building was located at 2331 2nd Ave which is only half a mile away from Space needle and about 1.6 miles away from Seattle Central Community College. It was built in 1936, it was typically use for film exchange. Furthermore, it was building in Art Deco style, which is hard to find nowadays. Art Deco style was mostly appropriate for the movie industry, and it was often used in its various buildings. Many film exchanges throughout the country were Art Deco in style, and M-G-M’s own headquarters building on the Culver City lot, the Irving Thalberg
ENGL102
10.00am-10.50am
Barbara Kline
Marketing in 1930s and 2013
Seattle, the crowded city that was full of theaters and super stars. Many people came across the world just to see and buy the films. It is the place where the film was distributed through out the state. Numerous questions were popped up into my mind about what Seattle was like about almost 100 years ago.
Walking around the neighborhood, I was impressed by the mysterious building. I was really curious about what kind of building it is and who used to live in that mysterious outstanding building. I went check for that person from the City Directory in Seattle Public Library and I found it. According to the City Directory, person name was Langdon C. Wingham, a manager of M-G-M. He is a white male who was born around 1896 and he was a resident of Seattle. He had been working in Film industry over ten years under M-G-M. I looked up in censuses of him and I found that in 1930s, the marital status was married but the census from 1920s and 1940s was single. After went through Seattle Public Library website, I found the article about the divorce of him and his wife. According to the article, Mr. Langdon C. Wingham complains about his wife playing golf “almost continuously” and in the end, they got divorced.
That building was the most beautiful building in the block and everyone that passed by will have to stop and look at it. The building was located at 2331 2nd Ave which is only half a mile away from Space needle and about 1.6 miles away from Seattle Central Community College. It was built in 1936, it was typically use for film exchange. Furthermore, it was building in Art Deco style, which is hard to find nowadays. Art Deco style was mostly appropriate for the movie industry, and it was often used in its various buildings. Many film exchanges throughout the country were Art Deco in style, and M-G-M’s own headquarters building on the Culver City lot, the Irving Thalberg
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