This shot is from very early Hollywood – the Goldwyn studio lot in Culver City. This was taken in 1919, two years after Sam Goldfish and Edgar Selwyn formed Goldwyn Pictures. Goldfish liked the name so much he took it as his own, then Selwyn sued him—and lost. In 1918 Goldwyn Pictures purchased the old Triangle lot in Culver City. Goldwyn Pictures adopted Leo the Lion as their logo, and the Latin slogan, “Ars Gratia Artis” meaning “Art for Art’s Sake”, which of course became the MGM slogan when Metro and Goldwyn merged in 1924. (Louis B. Mayer’s name wouldn’t be added until 1925.)
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