{"id":27478,"date":"2023-09-03T07:56:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T14:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/?p=27478"},"modified":"2023-09-03T20:55:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T03:55:47","slug":"a-photo-of-the-metro-goldwyn-mayer-studios-sign-at-dusk-culver-city-california-1935-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2023\/09\/03\/a-photo-of-the-metro-goldwyn-mayer-studios-sign-at-dusk-culver-city-california-1935-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A photo of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios sign at dusk, Culver City, California, 1935"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AI love this shadowy shot of the famous Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios sign. I especially love the way the light of the dusk sky contrasts with the murkiness of that empty alley which had probably, just a few hours earlier, bustled with studio workers. The photo was taken by a Life magazine photographer in 1935, so I wonder which movies were in production that day. David Copperfield<\/em>? Mutiny on the Bounty<\/em>? A Night at the Opera<\/em>?<\/p>\n

@ThommyLA<\/span><\/a> on Twitter posted this photo he took of the same view in October 2012 and generously let me repost it here.<\/p>\n

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I love this shadowy shot of the famous Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios sign. I especially love the way the light of the dusk sky contrasts with the murkiness of that empty alley which had probably, just a few hours earlier, bustled with … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,53,36],"class_list":["post-27478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-culver-city","tag-mgm","tag-movie-studios"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XK3w-79c","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27483,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27478\/revisions\/27483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}