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Order Number	00039912
Title	Paramount Ranch set
Collection ID	Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Location/Accession	Moving pictures-Sets
Date	1937
Physical Description	1 photograph :b&w
Historical Data	In 1927, Paramount Pictures purchased 2,700 acres of the old Rancho Las Virgenes (now Agoura Hills) for use as a "movie ranch." William Hertz bought the southeast portion in 1953 and built a permanent western town utilizing Paramount Pictures' old prop storage sheds. In 1980 the National Park Service purchased the land and today the Paramount Ranch Western Town is the only working movie western town in the National Park System.
Description	A set on the Paramount Ranch, located in Agoura Hills. Paramount Studios, who owned the ranch, used it for making movies from the 1920's through the mid-1940's. More than a hundred movies, mostly westerns, were shot there. The ranch included several large-scale sets, including a huge replica of early San Francisco, European village streets, and a Old West town.
Subject	Paramount Pictures, Inc. Motion picture studios--California--Los Angeles County. Motion pictures--Setting and scenery--California--Los Angeles County. Mountains--California, Southern. Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.). Paramount Ranch (Los Angeles County, Calif.). Malibu Creek State Park (Calif.).
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection