Timeline compiled by Marc Wanamaker / museum historian
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1895
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1903-1910
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1904
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1910
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June 1, 1912
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March 1913
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July 1913
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Nov. 23, 1913
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Dec. 20, 1913
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Dec. 22, 1913 |
Dec. 29, 1913
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May 8, 1914
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June 1916
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Feb. 1918
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June 1926
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Jan. 1, 1950
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Dec. 27, 1956 |
Oct. 25, 1979
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Feb. 15, 1983 |
Dec. 13, 1985
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| A horse and carriage barn was located on the Hollywood California estate of Robert Northam. The barn was situated at the southeast corner of Selma and Vine Streets and acted as storage for horses, hay, and other farm supplies. | Hollywood was incorporated as a City in its own right | The Jacob Stern family purchased the Northam Citrus farm | Hollywood is annexed to the City of Los Angeles | Adoph Zukor formed the Famous Players Film Company in New York. | The Burns and Revier Studio and Laboratory is established at the Stern Family barn in Hollywood for rental to independent producers. J.J. Burns and Harry Reveier both in the film business for some time first lease the new studio to ex-Keystone comedian, Fred Mace. | The beginning of the organization of the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company is begun with officers, Jesse Lasky, President; Samuel Goldfish, General Manager; and Cecil B. DeMille as Director-General in New York | The formal incorporation of the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company is completed under the laws of New York with a capital of $50,000. The new company will produce on film the successful stage play, The Squaw Man with stage star Dustin Farnum | The Lasky Company arrived in Los Angeles and stayed at the Alexandria Hotel before moving to Hollywood. | An agreement is signed by Cecil B. DeMille on behalf of the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company with J.J. Burns of Burns and Revier Studio to lease the Stern barn and studio facilities at Selma and Vine Streets in Hollywood for $250 a month. | Production began on The Squaw Man at the newly acquired studio in Hollywood with stars: Dustin Farnum, Dick Loreno, Red Wing, and Winifred Kingston. | Paramount Pictures Corporation is formed (a distributing company) by W.W. Hodkinson with Jesse Lasky, Adolph Zukor, Hobart Bosworth, and other producers in New York. | Famous Players Film Company and the Lasky Feature Play Company merged into: Famous Players Lasky Corporation. | Famous Players Lasky Corporation absorbs Paramount Pictures, their distributing subsidiary. | The Stern barn/DeMille Lasky barn, was moved from Selma and Vine Streets in Hollywood to the back lot of the newly acquired United Studios on Melrose Avenue where the new Paramount Studios would be built. | After many corporate name changes the company's new name is Paramount Pictures Corporation. | Dedication of the Stern-DeMille-Lasky Bar as: Hollywood's First Major Film Company Studio, named a State of California registered landmark #554 | The Lasky-DeMille Barn is moved off the Paramount Studio property to a parking lot of the Hollywood Palace Theater on Vine Street. The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, responsible for moving the barn, fenced and boarded up the barn until a permanent site could be found. | The Lasky-DeMille barn was acquired from the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce by Hollywood Heritage, Inc. and moved to its present site, across from the Hollywood Bowl on Highland Avenue. | The Dedication ceremonies at the Lasky-DeMille Barn take place renaming it, The Hollywood Studio Museum, where it would become a museum dedicated to the early days of filmmaking in Hollywood. |
