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Pickford-Fairbanks Studios – Vintage Print

Pickford-Fairbanks Studios, [between 1910 and 1920] — historic photograph
Pickford-Fairbanks Studios, [between 1910 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the Movies & Film collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, two of the biggest stars of the silent era, are the pair named in this photograph, which was taken at the studio they built together in Hollywood. The Pickford-Fairbanks Studios opened on Santa Monica Boulevard around 1919 and became a symbol of how the film business was shifting from New York and New Jersey to Southern California. Pickford and Fairbanks were both founding partners of United Artists, formed in 1919, which gave actors a measure of control over their own pictures. The print comes from the Library of Congress and dates from roughly the 1910s, a decade when the movie industry was growing fast.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1920]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1910-1920.Group portraits 1910-1920.Photographic prints 1910-1950.
SubjectsFairbanks, Douglas,--1883-1939. Pickford, Mary,--1892-1979. Motion picture industry--California--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,273 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-193240

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