Lawrence, F.

Japanese: Lawrence,F.(英語表記)LawrenceF
Lawrence, F.

…The Independent Motion Pictures Company (IMP) was established in 1909 by Carl Laemmle (1867-1939), one of the pioneers of American cinema, and was founded in 1912 by merging several smaller companies. Laemmle, who started out as a movie theater manager, believed that the commercial foundation of film was the fame of the actors, and he recruited Florence Lawrence (1886-1938), an actress who was known as the "Biograph Girl" from Biograph, with a contract for an unprecedented salary of $1,000 a week at the time, and used her name in the title of the first film, thus laying the foundation for the "star system" in Hollywood. In order to compete with the Motion Picture Patents Company, which had a monopoly on everything from film production to theatrical release, he moved his base to Los Angeles and in 1815 built Universal City, a major film city in the San Fernando Valley (today there are guided tours of the city), making a major contribution to making Hollywood the center of the movie industry.

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Japanese:

…アメリカ映画のパイオニアの一人として知られるカール・レムリCarl Laemmle(1867‐1939)が1909年に設立したインデペンデント・モーション・ピクチャーズ・カンパニー(IMP)を基礎に,いくつかの群小会社を合併して12年に設立された。映画館の経営から出発したレムリは,映画の商業的基盤は俳優の名声にあると考え,〈バイオグラフ・ガール〉として知られていたバイオグラフ社所属の女優フローレンス・ローレンスFlorence Lawrence(1886‐1938)を,当時にしては破格の週給1000ドルという契約で引き抜き,その名まえを初めて映画のタイトルにかかげて,ハリウッドにおける〈スター・システム〉の基礎を築いた。また,ニューヨークを中心に映画製作から興行まで独占していたモーション・ピクチャー・パテンツ・カンパニーに対抗して拠点をロサンゼルスに移し,15年,サン・フェルナンド・バレーに一大映画都市ともいうべき撮影所〈ユニバーサル・シティ〉(今日ではガイド付きの見学ツアーが行われている)を建設して,ハリウッドを映画の中心地にすることに大きく貢献した。…

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