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Motion picture industry -- Oregon -- Portland

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Oral history interview with Lew Cook

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9338
Abstract

Oral history interview with Lew Cook conducted by Martha Gies in two sessions on June 20 and June 26, 1979. Cook discusses the difficulty of safely storing nitrate film, which can spontaneously combust; talks about spending time at Portland’s Film Row in the early 1920s; and describes running his own business showing films in towns around Oregon.

Dates: 1979 June 20-26

Orlando J. "Banjo" Miller photographic collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 687
Abstract

Small collection of black and white photographs depicting Orlando J. "Banjo" Miller at various events promoting theaters and the war effort, and with his wife, Maude Miller.

Dates: circa 1941-1942

Only the brave

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2829
Abstract

Typescript screenplay for the movie "Flames" (working title: "Only the Brave") filmed in Portland, Oregon, 1926, and directed by Lewis Moomaw. Action involves a rescue from a forest fire.

Dates: circa 1926