Genre: Renderings / Collection: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

General Water Heater Corporation, photograph of rendering

Date:: [between 1919-1962]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Newsreel Theatre "Diana," photograph of rendering

Description:: Note on reverse: This theatre is designed to be built in plastic; the unusual façade is, therefore, ... ...CHECK ORIGINAL.
Date:: [between 1919-1962]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Hippodrome Theatre, photograph of rendering

Description:: Put this with 50401-50408. A discussion of these various concepts will pull these images together.
Date:: [between 1919-1962]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Lee, S. Charles, 1899-1990
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Office Tower/Retail Stores, photograph of rendering

Description:: Unbuilt concept
Date:: [between 1919-1962]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Mott Studios (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Ritz Theatre, photograph of rendering

Date:: [between 1919-1962]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Crenshaw Theatre, photograph of rendering

Date:: [between 1919-1962]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Melody Lane Restaurant, Hollywood, exterior rendering

Date:: [between 1919-1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Luckhaus Studio
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Aero Services, Palmdale, photograph of rendering

Description:: Airlines Administration Building (unbuilt concept)
Date:: [between 1919-1962]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Southern Pacific Building, photograph of rendering

Date:: [between 1919-1962]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Apartments (Deco), unbuilt concept, photograph of rendering

Date:: [between 1919-1962]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Woodcock, W.P.
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Office Tower, photograph of rendering

Description:: Unbuilt concept
Date:: [between 1919-1962]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Newsreel Theatre "Rio," photograph of rendering

Description:: This design makes good use of a small urban lot by maximizing the advertising space. The design above the marquee is one unit, the design below another. The projecting marquee attracts the attention of both Driver and pedestrian. The exterior could be of concrete, plaster, terra cotta, glass or plastic, the lettering in copper or white metal.
Date:: [between 1919-1962]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Newsreel Theatre "Sign," photograph of rendering

Description:: Note on reverse: This theatre is built with a glass front so the lobby may be viewed from the street. This makes the front entertaining in itself and stresses the fact that entertainment is housed within. The poster cases are designed to sell the show.
Date:: [between 1919-1962]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoffman-Luckhaus
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Office Tower/Retail Stores, photograph of rendering

Description:: This rendering is marked "for Mr. I.C. Freud."
Date:: [between 1919-1962]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Newsreel Theatre "Town," photograph of rendering

Description:: Note on reverse: This spectacular design has been planned to care for a change in theatre patronage. It is meant to speak up to the people to come in and see what is inside, and is planned for a locality where the newsreel has become an attraction.
Date:: [between 1919-1962]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Newsreel Theatre "Correa," photograph of rendering

Description:: Lee produced a number of designs for newsreel theatres, a type of theatre that would show newsreels on a continuous basis. All the renderings describe in this archive as Theatre Design Concepts are newsreel theatres. The newsreel had been introduced as a short shown before the feature during the 1930s. World War II heightened interest in the newsreel, giving rise to the idea of small theatres showing newsreels only. As technology allowed, Lee began to increase his use of glass and later plastic, both transparent materials that could be used to great effect for buildings whose primary use was at night. Lee's renderings for these designs all show the buildings at night. By using transparent materials, Lee was creating illuminated sculptures that were their own advertisements for the film.Note on reverse: This modern idea has been designed to be inviting, entertaining and smart, to stand out in a busy location. The name on the theatre indicates the design was prepared for Mexico, probably in early 1940s.
Date:: [between 1919-1962]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Drive-in theatre, Ventura, photograph of rendering

Description:: This earliest-known concept for a drive-in theater by Lee, the Ventura Drive-In, shows a sophisticated use of illuminated triangular forms massed alongside the large illuminated screen structure and along the edges of the parking lot, creating an advertising sign for the theater out of the drive-in form itself. The sharp-edged forms are clearly Art Deco in character, a style that is sometimes called Zig-Zag Moderne. The design vocabulary was adapted from usage current in theatre design at the time.
Date:: [between 1919-1962]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Morris & Monroe
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Melody Lane Restaurant, Hollywood, interior rendering, booths

Date:: [between 1919-1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Luckhaus Studio
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Apartments (French), unbuilt concept, photograph of rendering

Date:: [between 1919-1962]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Newsreel Theatre "La Vona," photograph of rendering

Description:: Note on reverse: This theatre shall be its own advertising and the front shall sell the picture. Each row will have different colored lighting arrangements and the whole will be a blaze of color with the new fluorescent lighting units.
Date:: [between 1919-1962]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Union Oil and Gas, photograph of rendering

Description:: Unbuilt concept.
Date:: [between 1919-1962]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Melody Lane Restaurant, Hollywood, interior rendering, lunch counter

Date:: [between 1919-1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Luckhaus Studio
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

General Water Heater Corporation, bird's eye rendering

Date:: [between 1919-1962]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Luckhaus Studio
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Kolmitz Store, photograph of rendering

Date:: [between 1919-1962]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Office Building/Retail Stores, photograph of rendering

Description:: Unbuilt concept
Date:: [between 1919-1962]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Department Store, photograph of rendering

Description:: Unbuilt concept
Date:: [between 1919-1962]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Reforma Theatre, Mexico City, rendering

Description:: This theatre and office complex, perhaps taking its name from the Avenida de la Reforma in Mexico City, may be one of Lee's concepts for the Chapultepec Theatre (see 12401-12408) in Mexico City, which was located on the Avenida de la Reforma. The collection contains no photographs of the exterior of the Chapultepec.
Date:: [between 1919-1962]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Luckhaus Studio
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Melody Lane Restaurant, Hollywood, interior rendering, bar

Date:: [between 1919-1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Luckhaus Studio
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Marchetti's Restaurant, Los Angeles, photograph of rendering for re-model

Date:: [1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Office Tower/Retail Stores, photograph of rendering

Description:: Unbuilt concept
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Tower Theatre, Los Angeles, null

Date:: 1926-27
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Tower Theatre, Los Angeles, Photograph of rendering, hand-colored with pastel, colored pencil (?), watercolor.

Description:: This rendering of the Tower Theatre, Leeýs first theatre design, shows how effectively he was able to use the narrow lot crowded on both sides by taller buildings. The tower located at the corner advertised the theatre to the public.
Date:: 1926-27
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Landau Building, photograph of rendering

Date:: 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Luckhaus Studio
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Hollywood Western Building, Los Angeles, photograph of rendering

Date:: [between 1927-1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Fox Wilshire, Beverly Hills, foyer, photograph of rendering

Description:: The concept for the foyer proposed a domed ceiling, executed perhaps in stained glass or in paint on plaster. Curved staircases lead to the mezzanine above.
Date:: 1928-30
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Fox Wilshire, Beverly Hills, auditorium, photograph of rendering

Description:: The interior design concept was in lavish Art Deco, with contrasting light and dark (probably black and silver or gilt).
Date:: 1928-30
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Wurlitzer Theatre, Cincinnati, Elevation, alternate design (1)

Description:: Lee did two schemes for this theatre, office tower, and retail complex, planned for Cincinnati. Many studies for the design are also included in the collection.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Wurlitzer Theatre, Cincinnati, Elevation, alternate design (2)

Description:: Lee did two schemes for this theatre, office tower, and retail complex, planned for Cincinnati. Many studies for the design are also included in the collection.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Fox Wilshire, Beverly Hills, exterior, renderings

Description:: This publication shows three of Lee's many concepts for this lavish and important building in Beverly Hills. The building opened on September 19, 1930, only weeks before the stock market crash. Several sketches for the landmark tower survive in the Lee collection.
Date:: 1928-30
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Mount Sinai Hospital and Clinic, Los Angeles, photograph of rendering, hospital

Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoffman-Luckhaus
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Pershing Square Garage, Los Angeles, photograph of rendering

Date:: 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Lee, S. Charles, 1899-1990
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Pershing Square Garage, Los Angeles, photograph of rendering

Date:: 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoffman-Luckhaus
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Mount Sinai Hospital and Clinic, Los Angeles, photograph of rendering, clinic

Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Luckhaus Studio
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Studio Theatre, Hollywood, colored rendering of marquee

Description:: Lee depicts the basic elements of the marquee, the sign, and the entrance in this drawing.
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Studio Theatre, Hollywood, colored rendering of interior

Description:: A colored sketch in graphite and pastel of the auditorium of the Studio Theatre.
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962