Thursday, August 21, 2008 – For Ollie and Stan

The earliest known record of Santa Monica and its residents being used in a movie was the 1933 Laurel and Hardy classic, Sons of the Desert.  The film, which is about Ollie and Stan sneaking away to Chicago and attend the annual "Sons of the Desert" lodge convention, features the Santa Monica Lodge of Elks in a "movie" newsreel of the lodge's convention parade. The Elks lodge is still there, on the corner of Main and Pier. Ollie and Stan are long gone.

A reminder of those days –

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Technical Note:

Photographs after March 3, 2008, were taken with a Nikon D200 – or a Nikon D70 when noted. All previous photographs were taken with the D70. The lenses used are (1) AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or (2) AF Nikkor 70-300 mm telephoto, or (3) AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 55-200 mm f/4-5.6G ED. Photography here is modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0.  The earliest photography in the archives was done with a Sony Mavica digital still camera (MVC-FD-88) with built-in digital zoom.

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