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Craft workers on strike stand outside Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Culver City, 1937

Description:
Craft workers on strike stand outside Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Studios in Culver City. Nearly 2500 craft studio workers went on strike against major motion picture studios, including MGM, Warner Brothers, and Paramount. The strike was issued by Charles Lessing, president of the Federated Motion Picture Crafts, and the American Federation of Labor.
Date:
July 31, 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Craft workers on strike stand outside Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Culver City, 1937

Culver City Chief of Police C.T. Truschel watches craft workers on strike at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, Culver City, 1937

Description:
Culver City Chief of Police C.T. Truschel watches craft workers on strike at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. Nearly 2500 craft studio workers went on strike against major motion picture studios, including MGM, Warner Brothers, and Paramount. The strike was issued by Charles Lessing, president of the Federated Motion Picture Crafts, and the American Federation of Labor.
Date:
July 31, 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Culver City Chief of Police C.T. Truschel watches craft workers on strike at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, Culver City, 1937

Actor Chill Wills at an outdoor set at the Hal Roach Studio, Culver City, 1963

Description:
RELICS OF GLORY – Actor Chill Wills sits on flatcar under Our Gang Cafe, holding handful of weeds he pulled from cracked streets of Hal Roach “laugh factory” that now resound to wreckers’ ball. (“Echoes of mirth fade as Roach Studio falls: wrecking crew battering down walls of famed ‘Laugh Factory’ of golden era,” Los Angeles Times, 1 Jul. 1963: A1)
Date:
circa July 1, 1963
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Actor Chill Wills at an outdoor set at the Hal Roach Studio, Culver City, 1963

Royal party of Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden watches a movie being made at MGM studio, Culver City, 1926

Description:
The Royal party traveling with Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden watches a movie being made at the MGM Studio, with the Crown Princess Louise of Sweden (3rd from left in a white dress and hat), MGM vice-president Louis B. Mayer (5th form left with a handkerchief in his suit pocket and wearing glasses), and Lois Frances Booth, wife of Prince Erik Count of Rosenberg (wearing a large white hat, 3rd from right). Reported with other photographs in "Motion-Picture Industry Acts as Host to Future King and Queen During Day of Entertainment..." Los Angeles Times, 24 July 1926: A1.
Date:
July 23, 1926
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Royal party of Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden watches a movie being made at MGM studio, Culver City, 1926

Royal party of Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden watches a movie being made at MGM studio, Culver City, 1926

Description:
Louis B. Mayer (center) hosts Crown Princess Louise of Sweden (left) and Lois Frances Booth, wife of Prince Erik Count of Rosenberg during a tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie studio. Reported with other photographs in "Motion-Picture Industry Acts as Host to Future King and Queen During Day of Entertainment..." Los Angeles Times, 24 July 1926: A1.
Date:
July 23, 1926
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Royal party of Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden watches a movie being made at MGM studio, Culver City, 1926

Royal party of Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden on walk through MGM studio, Culver City, 1926

Description:
The Royal party traveling with Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden walking at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) studio with the prince (right), Louis B. Mayer (2nd from right), the Crown Princess Louise of Sweden (left), and other unidentified people with the group. Reported with other photographs in "Motion-Picture Industry Acts as Host to Future King and Queen During Day of Entertainment..." Los Angeles Times, 24 July 1926: A1.
Date:
July 23, 1926
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Royal party of Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden on walk through MGM studio, Culver City, 1926

Crown Prince Gustav Adolf and Crown Princess Louise of Sweden with actor Tim McCoy at MGM studio, Culver City, 1926

Description:
Crown Prince Gustav Adolf and Crown Princess Louise of Sweden (center left) face actor Tim McCoy in cowboy costume during a tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie studio. Others in the royal party are visible in the background. . Reported with other photographs in "Motion-Picture Industry Acts as Host to Future King and Queen During Day of Entertainment..." Los Angeles Times, 24 July 1926: A1.
Date:
July 23, 1926
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Crown Prince Gustav Adolf and Crown Princess Louise of Sweden with actor Tim McCoy at MGM studio, Culver City, 1926

Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden with Arapaho tribe members and Tim McCoy at MGM studio, Culver City, 1926

Description:
Six men reported to be members of the Arapaho tribe meet with Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden, who is seated on the ground. Actor Tim McCoy (left) speaks to a tribe member. They are at the Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer movie studio. Reported with other photographs in "Motion-Picture Industry Acts as Host to Future King and Queen During Day of Entertainment..." Los Angeles Times, 24 July 1926: A1.
Date:
July 23, 1926
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden with Arapaho tribe members and Tim McCoy at MGM studio, Culver City, 1926

Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden with Arapaho tribe members and Tim McCoy at MGM studio, Culver City, 1926

Description:
Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden, seated (center), shakes hands with a man reported to be a member of the Arapaho tribe. Actor Tim McCoy (seated, left) watches. They are at Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer movie studio. Photo appears with the article "Motion-Picture Industry Acts as Host to Future King and Queen During Day of Entertainment..." Los Angeles Times, 24 July 1926: A1.
Date:
July 23, 1926
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden with Arapaho tribe members and Tim McCoy at MGM studio, Culver City, 1926

Flooded residential area after heavy rains, Culver City, 1920s

Description:
View of two houses and a wooden commercial building in a flooded area after heavy rain. A sign on the commercial building reads "The Mesmer City Corporation, LTD." Two other signs read "Oil Information Here" and, seen in reverse, "Full Oil Rights." Mesmer City was a promotional idea for a city in the area between Culver City, Inglewood and Marina del Rey. It was never developed.
Date:
[1920-1929]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Flooded residential area after heavy rains, Culver City, 1920s