A Ticket to Hollywood: Europeans in Los Angeles, 1925-1956, Part One. Prologue
A Ticket to Hollywood: Europeans in Los Angeles, 1925-56, Prologue is an innovative and visually stimulating approach to Los Angeles cultural history focusing on those men and women of arts and letters whose journey to Southern California was mostly spurred by the opportunities the motion picture industry was believed to generate, or reasons as diverse as their backgrounds, circumstances, and creative outputs. In a series of exclusive interviews granted by cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, composer David Raksin, screenwriter Malvin Wald, architecture historian Robert Winter, and many others the story will unravel of a fascinating time in a fascinating place.
A Ticket to Hollywood' showcases much expressly shot material as well as candid footage and rare photographs from private collections. Unlike similar projects, it makes Los Angeles and its ever-changing geographic, historical, and cultural landscape its center of interest, with the city of today as the multifaceted container for the stories of yesterday. Stressing the role of LA in the lives of the immigrants matches the filmmaker's belief that the city and its distinguished European residents grew together and contributed, albeit unevenly, to each others growth.
A TICKET TO HOLLYWOOD: EUROPEANS IN Los Angeles, 1925-56 - PROLOGUE is an expanded and more ambitious version of A Ticket to Hollywood, Europeans in Screenland, 1925-56, winner of the Best Documentary Short award from the independence film Fest of Colorado.Not an end in itself, PROLOGUE is soon to be followed by an upcoming broader scope one-hour feature for which principal photography has been completed.
PROLOGUE features original music by jazz composer/soloist Mauro Zazzarini which contributes to evoke a sense of time and place and punctuates the many great stories told.