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The Sensation Seekers

677 A rarity. Surviving extant fragments of the 1926 production based on Ernest Pascal's story "Egypt".

Roughly 1/3 of the film missing. Most of the beginning middle and end of the film are present. All of the material is pieced together in the correct chronological order it appeared in the film.

This is the final feature directed by Lois Weber. This film stars the legendary silent screen siren Billie Dove.

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1. The Sensation Seekers A rarity. Surviving extant fragments of the 1926 production based on Ernest Pascal's story "Egypt".
  
  Roughly 1/3 of the film missing. Most of the beginning middle and end of the film are present. All of the material is pieced together in the correct chronological order it appeared in the film.
  
  This is the final feature directed by Lois Weber. This film stars the legendary silent screen siren Billie Dove.

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1920s Phil Ethington
Contents of this tag:
1. Three Sisters of Mass Media: Cinema, Radio, Television, 1920s-1950s
2. White Shadows in the South Seas: The Making of Imperial Hollywood in the 1920s
3. Industrial-Residential Groundwork: Inscribing the Boom of the 1920s
4. Walter Gordon's Photographic Tour of African American Los Angeles, 1920s-1960s
5. Los Ángeles contra La Raza Cósmica: U.S.-Mexico Petropolitics and the Counterrevolution of the 1920s
6. The Diverse Origins of Motion Picture Production: Sex, Race, Ideology, and purpose, 1890s-1920s
7. New York City's Media Power: Financial and Creative Control of Hollywood in the Classic Era, 1920s-1930s
8. John Joseph Cantwell (1874-1948), Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles; Edward L. Doheny (1856-1935), and Carrie Estelle Doheny (1875-1958; Papal Countess 1939-), 1929
9. Doheny Mansion, 8 Chester Place, West Adams Los Angeles c. 1920
10. Clara Kimball Young Studio 1921 - 1924
11. White Shadows: Mass Media / Empire, 1920s-1950s
12. Fletcher Avenue Bridge at Ripple St, looking north-east (1927)
13. Los Angeles Aviation, 1912 (Van Nuys Airport) - 1928 (Mines Field, later LAX) Montage by Phil Ethington. Source images: TOP: Aerial survey and direction of traffic at National Air Races, Mines Field -- Los Angeles, September 8-16, 1928. acsc-m871 Negative Box 6 (1401-E) Automobile Club of Southern California. BOTTOM: Pilot Glen Martin at the controls of his aircraft as a mechanic prepares the plane for takeoff at the Dominguez Hills Air Meet, 1912. chs-m13344 TICOR/Pierce CHS-11680.
14. La Calavera Catrina y Frida Kahlo, Detail, Diego Rivera, Murales Palacio Nacional (1929)
15. The Mexican Revolution, The Los Angeles Metropolis, and American Political Culture, 1880s-1920s
16. Taking Place: Mexico and the Counterrevolution in Los Angeles in the 1920s
17. Dolores del Río, circa 1920
18. Industrial Groundwork, 1920s
19. Live Map of Bunker Hill and Downtown Los Angeles, 1920s-1930s
20. Hearst Newspaper Chain Advertisement (c 1920s)
21. Pulp Fascism: Hollywood's White Hunters, 1920s-1930s
22. Westwood Village, 1920s Water and Power Org "1932)#* - A panoramic view of Westwood Village in Westwood, Los Angeles. The domed building in the center is the Janss Investment Corp., and the road to the right of it is Westwood. Left of that is the University Professional Building, with Crawford Drugs at the corner on the ground level. The spire down the street between Janss and the Professional building is the Fox Theatre. Across Westwood from Janss is the Citizens National Trust & Savings Bank. On the west side of Westwood in the background is the tower of the Holmby Building. The cross street is now Kinross Avenue, while the street leading to the theater is Broxton."; http://waterandpower.org/museum/Early_Views_of_UCLA.html
23. Foolish Wives (Von Stroheim, 1922) Monte Carlo Set
24. Relief map of territory served by lines of [the] Pacific Electric Railway in Southern California (1920)
25. Labor of Stars: Artists, Artisans, and the Contested Visual Workplace of the 1920s-1930s
26. Equity Pictures Corp.
27. East Africa, c. 1920
28. KRKD Radio Tower (c. 1920), 541 S. Spring Street, seen from Broadway, looking southest, showing Arcade Theater (c 19***)
29. Evangelene, Starring Dolores Del Río (1929)
30. Queen Kelly (Dir. Erich Von Stroheim, Producer Joseph Kennedy, starring Gloria Swanson, 1927 unfinished.
31. Unloading At Mombasa, 1929: Trader Horn Crew Begins 11-Month Cinematic Safari.
32. The Girl From Hollywood, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Macaulay Co. 1922)
33. Metro and Goldwyn Studios 1919, with Map of Culver City, USGS 1927
34. Edward L. Doheny: Borderland Oil Baron, 1890s-1920s
35. Ralphs' Grocery, (1929)
36. Buster Keaton, The Cameraman (1928)
37. Sid Grauman's Chinese Theater, Postcard, (circa 1927), 6925 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
38. KNX Radio (1923- "KNX is an AM broadcast radio station on 1070 kHz in Los Angeles, California, United States. It runs an all-news format. The station is owned by the CBS Radio subsidiary of CBS Corporation. KNX continues to hold a Class A license from it being one of the original clear-channel stations allocated under the 1928 U.S. band plan. KNX broadcasts from facilities shared with sister stations KCBS-FM, KTWV and KAMP-FM located on Los Angeles' Miracle Mile; its transmitter and antenna array site are located at Columbia Park in Torrance (northeast of the intersection of Hawthorne Boulevard and 190th Street). The station also broadcasts a HD Radio signal, streams online, and simulcasts on the FM band on the HD2 channel of KAMP-FM (97.1 FM)." From Wikipedia, 2015.09.01: , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNX_(AM).
39. Radio KFI, 16 April 1922-Present "KFI is an AM radio station in Los Angeles, California, owned and operated by iHeartMedia, Inc. It received its license to operate on March 31, 1922 and began operating on April 16, 1922, and after a succession of power increases, became one of the United States' first high-powered, "clear-channel" stations. KFI, which broadcasts on 640 AM, is the dominant class A 50,000 watt station in North America. It operates as a talk radio station, airing a mixture of syndicated and locally originated news and talk programming. In the Spring 2006 quarter Arbitron rating, KFI was the most listened to radio station in Los Angeles, averaging approximately 1.5 million listeners during any given weekday. The station was the most listened to AM radio station as well as the most listened to news/talk radio station in the country, beating out WABC in New York City and WSB (AM) in Atlanta." From Wikipedia, 2015.09.01, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFI
40. Artes Populares, 1922 and 2006. Panoramic Montage by Phil Ethington (2006).
41. The Rise of Ronald Reagan, Actor, 1920s-1940s
42. Eastside Real Estate Office, 1923
43. Monty Blue, Raquel Torres, and Marquesan Actors in M-G-M's White Shadows in the South Seas (Dir. Van Dyke, 1928)
44. "Nanook of the North" [1922] From Internet Archive: "Nanook of the North (also known as Nanook of the North: A Story Of Life and Love In the Actual Arctic) is a 1922 silent documentary film by Robert J. Flaherty. In the tradition of what would later be called salvage ethnography, Flaherty captured the struggles of the Inuk Nanook and his family in the Canadian arctic. The film is considered the first feature-length documentary, though Flaherty has been criticized for staging several sequences and thereby distorting the reality of his subjects' lives. In 1989, this film was one of the first 25 films to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". ---------- Also, see Robert J. Flaherty's "Man of Aran" [1934] http://www.archive.org/details/manOfAran1934
45. Airplane Synchromy in Yellow-Orange. Stanton MacDonald-Wright. 1920. Oil on canvas. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
46. Industrial Map of Los Angeles Harbor and Vicinity (1924) Automobile Club of Southern California.
47. Sessue Hayakawa as the Prince of the Island of Desire in a publicity still for The Beggar Prince (Haworth, 1920).
48. Universal City, USGS Map, Detail, 1928
49. The Forty-One Cities of Los Angeles County in 1924
50. War Paint (Van Dyke, 1926)
51. The Hollywoodland Sign at Night, c 1925.
52. Signal Hill, 360-degree Panoarama, 1927
53. Raquel Torres in White Shadows in the South Seas (M-G-M, Dir. Van dyke, 1928)
54. Ku Klux Klan parades down Pennsylvania Ave 1928
55. From Vienna to Chicago to Los Angeles: The Formation of Southern California Modernism, 1890s-1920s
56. Oil Derrick, Signal Hill, 1929
57. The Sensation Seekers A rarity. Surviving extant fragments of the 1926 production based on Ernest Pascal's story "Egypt".
  
  Roughly 1/3 of the film missing. Most of the beginning middle and end of the film are present. All of the material is pieced together in the correct chronological order it appeared in the film.
  
  This is the final feature directed by Lois Weber. This film stars the legendary silent screen siren Billie Dove.
58. Monte Blue and Woody Van Dyke on set of M-G-M's White Shadows in the South Seas, Marquesas Islands, 1928
59. White Shadows: Imperial Hollywood, 1920s-1930s
60. The Bohemian Left in the 1920s
61. Diego Rivera, Revolución mexicana, Palacio Nacional (1929-30)
62. Song Extracts From 1920s Movies-01-10
63. Intertitle, White Shadows in the South Seas (M-G-M, Dir Van Dyke, 1928)
64. Water, Power, Fuel, 1924: Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Promotional Graphic
65. Honor Bilt Modern Homes, Sears Roebuck Co, c. 1920
66. Queen Kelly (Prod. Joseph Kennedy, Dir. Erich Von Stroheim, Starring Gloria Swanson, Unfinished, 1928
67. Los Angeles: Capital City of the US-Mexico Borderlands, 1880-1920s
68. The “Monterey” Homes at Beautiful Leimert Park, Elevations and Floor Plans, c. 1927
69. Metropolis (UFA, 1927) Publicity Poster
70. Sid Grauman's Chinese Theatre (Meyer & Holler, 1927)