I’m glad that someone thought to take a shot of the back of the 300-foot set that D.W. Griffith built at the intersection of Sunset Blvd and Hollywood Blvd in Los Feliz for his colossus of a movie, “Intolerance.” (1916) According to one report I read, he used more than 3000 extras and the daily cost of employing them sometimes reached $12,000—and that was a lotta moolah in 1915! At the top of the set was can see a banner “Intolerance or ‘The Mother and the Law’” which was the original name of the movie until Griffith expanded the movie to included three more storylines. I’m guessing they meant it as an advertisement for the coming movie, but at 300 feet in the air, I’m wondering how many passers-by actually saw it.
I’m glad that someone thought to take a shot of the back of the 300-foot set that D.W. Griffith built at the intersection of Sunset Blvd and Hollywood Blvd in Los Feliz for his colossus of a movie, “Intolerance.” (1916) According to one report I read, he used more than 3000 extras and the daily cost of employing them sometimes reached $12,000—and that was a lotta moolah in 1915! At the top of the set was can see a banner “Intolerance or ‘The Mother and the Law’” which was the original name of the movie until Griffith expanded the movie to included three more storylines. I’m guessing they meant it as an advertisement for the coming movie, but at 300 feet in the air, I’m wondering how many passers-by actually saw it.
They found all this lol
If they told you they built it they lied.