"On Location: New book presents a photographic history of filming in Los Angeles" from the Los Angeles Times by Richard Verrier

For nearly four decades Hollywood historian Marc Wanamaker has indulged his passion: collecting photographs from location film shoots in Los Angeles dating back to the early 1900s. Now, he hopes his new book featuring more than 200 vintage images, including Harold Lloyd dangling off the side of a building above 8th and Spring streets in the 1930 film “Feet First,” will remind the film industry of the city’s rich heritage at a time when much of production is migrating elsewhere. Wanamaker, a film history consultant and former curator of the Hollywood Heritage Museum, has collected about 250,000 still photographs that document the countless hotels, ranches, parks and beaches across Los Angeles that supplied the backdrop for some of Hollywood’s greatest films. [...] Wanamaker, who co-wrote the book with local authors Karie Bible and Harry Medved, said he wanted to use the photos to highlight L.A.’s deep ties to the movie business as film industry promoters and city officials attempt to stem runaway production. This week the nonprofit group FilmL.A. unveiled a new marketing campaign to boost the local film industry.

See also: Early Beverly Hills (CA) (Images of America), Location Filming in Los Angeles (Images of America Series), Early Warner Bros. Studios (Images of America) (Images of America Series)