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Caroline Luce, Author

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Getz House - Citations and Additional Resources

Invaluable information and photos for this path provided by Chris Kallenburg and Mary (Getz) Hudson. 

Ballin's murals at the Getz House were covered over in the 1960s and are no longer viewable, but the house itself is currently (August 2014) for sale. For more photos and information, contact the real estate brokers at Hilton Hyland.  

The Getz House was profiled in Architectural Digest vol. II no. 1 (1929) and vol. II no. 2 (1929). 
It was also profiled in a Sept. 20th, 2010 article in CurbedLA, which can be accessed here.

The murals in the Getz house were reviewed by Arthur Millier, “The Ballin Murals in Los Angeles,” California Southland (1927) and by Arts and Decoration Magazine, col xxix no. 4 (Aug., 1928), p. 39.

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1. The definition of “nickelodeon” varies considerably, I have borrowed my understanding from Bowser, Eileen, The Transformation of Cinema, 1907-1915 (Berkeley, UC Press, 1990) p. 4-6. 

2. Gabler, Neal, An Empire of their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood (New York: Crown Publishers, 1988) pp. 1-7.

3. Gabler, An Empire of Their Own, on Laemmle, pp. 56-57, 63. On Zukor and Paramount, p. 42. 

4. Ovnick, Merry, “The Mark of Zorro: Silent Film’s Impact on 1920s Architecture in Los Angeles,” California History vol. 86, no 1 (2008): 28-59, esp. 29, 35-36, 40.

5. “The Picture a Medium for Art - Hugo Ballin, Goldwyn Art Director, Has Taken the Photoplay Seriously as Field for Creation,” The Moving Picture World, July 12th, 1919. Article clipping appears in the Hugo Ballin Papers, Department of Special Collections, Charles Young Library, UCLA, Box 21, Folder 3.

6. “Motion is Over-Emphasized: Ballin – Producer Declares That he has Sought a More Subtle Appeal in His Picturization of ‘East Lynne’” Exhibitor’s Herald Fen. 26th, 1921, clipping in Ballin Papers, UCLA Special Collections, Box 21, Folder 3; and “Hollywood Artist Famous” by Harriet Clay Penman, clipping (no publication or date given) appears in a scrapbook in the Ballin Papers, UCLA Special Collections, Box 29, Folder 2. 

7. Clippings including details and reviews of films appear without authors or dates in a scrapbook in the Ballin Papers, UCLA Special Collections, Box 29, Folder 2. 

8. Jan Furey Munta, “Gordon B. Kaufmann: California Classicism” in Johnson, Kaufmann and Coate: Partners in the California Style, ed. Jay Belloli, Alson Clark, Jan Furey Muntz, Stefanos Polyzoides (Pomona: Scripps College; Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1992), p. 31. 

9. Ovnick, Merry, “The Mark of Zorro: Silent Film’s Impact on 1920s Architecture in Los Angeles,” California History vol. 86, no 1 (2008): 28-59.

10. Quoted in Ovnick, "The Mark of Zorro," p. 40.

11. Arthur Millier, “The Ballin Murals in Los Angeles,” California Southland (1927).


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