1915 Universal City Hollywood Movie Studio Brochure Carl Laemmle Silent Era

Date: 1915Artist: Unknown     Size (in): 28” x 9.25” (unfolded) Size (cm): 71 x 23.5Condition: BLinen backed: No This is an original and scarce 1915 brochure promoting Carl Laemmle’s Universal City film studio complex as a tourist attraction in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, California.   This brochure is a single piece with seven panels printed both sides that measures about 4” x 9.25” folded and folds open to about 28” x 9.25”.  This brochure has a 1915 copyright by the Universal Film Manufacturing Company and the text makes reference to the opening of Universal City on March 15, 1915.   The front cover panel reads in part:  THE CRAZIEST CITY IN THE WORLD – Universal City California Near Los Angeles Where Universal Moving Pictures Are Made  This brochure gives “…an interesting little history in five spasms” of a sort of whimsical account of how Carl Laemmle’s vision for Universal City came to be.   One panel of the brochure features a montage of photographic views of