[Tourmaline]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

posted earlier by Tourmaline (enlarged)

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Tourmaline, I found these photos from 1916, but no address. (the fence is the same as in your photograph above, but it doesn't show such a grand entrance)

"David Horsley's Motion Pictures and Bostock Jungle Film Co."


http://hollywoodphotographs.com/deta...studios-in-la/





below: I think the grand entryway shown in Tourmaline's photograph is visible down the street (above the streetcar).


http://hollywoodphotographs.com/deta...ilm-costudios/

Does anyone recognize the large apartment building down the street?

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Unrelated or not?


I have seen references to Jungle Film Studio at 1720 N Soto, which coincidentally is close to Lincoln Park and Selig Zoo at 3800 Mission Rd. But it is unclear that this is related to Bostock, unless Bostock had more than one location. The 1915CD lists an employee/co-owner of E & R Jungle Film Co., Joseph S Edwards, but not JF address.

Now that "quick-on-the-draw" HossC has provided Bostock's 1919 S Main location, I would have expected to see more photos. Notice in the bottom photo the name is painted on a roof. Visible from a distance? By 1923, per the '23CD, the same location is Joseph Steinberg's Used Cars.



From IMDB

Horsely was in Europe when war broke out in August 1914. The Bostock Animal and Jungle Show was evicted from its London exhibition rooms due to military necessity. The manager of the Jungle Show sold it to Horsely for $40,000, approximately a tenth of his fortune from the sale of his Universal stock. Horsely transported the show's assets to the US by ship. From the docks of Brooklyn, Horsely shipped the menagerie, which included 58 lions and two elephants, to Los Angeles. Altogether it cost him a total of $15,000 to freight the animals from England to L.A. He spent a further $47,500 to create a new park for his show, including grandstands, arenas, cages, and a concrete fence on a property at Washington and Main that rented for $600 per month.

After he opened the show in 1915 he was facing a daily overhead of $225, though the most tickets the show ever sold in a day was $165, while on a bad day the show took in as little as $1.25. To make the show pay, Horsely built a film studio at the site that he called the Bostock Jungle Films Co., which included its own film processing lab. Horsely began turning out movies, many of which used the wild animals as background. His new studio made five-reel dramas with Crane Wilbur, "Stanley in Africa" pictures, and approximately 200 comedies with George Ovey. By the fall of 1918 his movie-making venture was through, and when he filed for bankruptcy in 1919, the once-rich Horsely was $38,000 in debt.

The loss of his company, his exotic animal show and his fortune broke David Horsely. He died on February 23, 1933, a forgotten man, barely remembered as one of the men who saved the film industry from The Trust and pioneered Hollywood as a filmmaking center. Horsely was interred in Hollywood Cemetery, now known as Hollywood Forever Cemetery, reduced to a footnote in American cinema history. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0395438/

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