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> Subject: [2] "Top Secret" Hollywood
> 

> Ibid.
>  
> by David Guyatt
> 02-01-2009, 09:08 AM
> On the movie studio:
> 
> http://www.laurelcanyon.org/20cHist.html
> 
> In 1947, the Army Air Corps built its top-secret movie production studio on
> Wonderland Park Avenue. Military training films and Department of Defense
> documentaries were churned out, including a particularly famous series on the
> aboveground nuclear tests in Nevada. The studio was deactivated in 1969, and
> thanks to the efforts of the Laurel Canyon Association, it was prevented from
> being zoned for further commercial activity.
> 
> http://www.laurelcanyon.org/Images/20th%20History/LookoutMtStudio.jpghttp://ww
> w.laurelcanyon.org/Images/20th%20History/LookoutMtStudio3.jpg
> 
> 
> The top secret 1352d Motion Picture Squadron (Lookout Mountain Laboratory)
> hidden in the valley of Wonderland Park Avenue. The studio created
> documentaries on Nevada nuclear tests among other projects and is now a unique
> residence complex.
> 
> David Guyatt
> 02-01-2009, 09:32 AM
> http://www.mouseplanet.com/articles.php?art=mg060222eb
> 
> My Family Disney Dynasty, Part 1
> 
> After the war he worked as a freelance commercial artist in Los Angeles, and
> in 1951 he joined the animation section at the U.S. Air Force Lookout Mountain
> Laboratory, Hollywood's ³secret² film studio. There he worked as a layout,
> background and story-sketch artist on training and informational films for the
> Air Force and Atomic Energy Commission, traveled to Yucca Flat in Nevada and
> Eniwetok in the Pacific to witness atomic and hydrogen bomb testing.
> 
> http://www.sott.net/articles/show/156913-Inside-The-LC-The-Strange-but-Mostly-
> True-Story-of-Laurel-Canyon-and-the-Birth-of-the-Hippie-Generation-Part-IV
> 
> What would become known as Lookout Mountain Laboratory was originally
> envisioned as an air defense center. Built in 1941 and nestled in
> two-and-a-half secluded acres off what is now Wonderland Park Avenue, the
> installation was hidden from view and surrounded by an electrified fence. By
> 1947, the facility featured a fully operational movie studio. In fact, it is
> claimed that it was perhaps the world's only completely self-contained movie
> studio. With 100,000 square feet of floor space, the covert studio included
> sound stages, screening rooms, film processing labs, editing facilities, an
> animation department, and seventeen climate-controlled film vaults. It also
> had underground parking, a helicopter pad and a bomb shelter.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ©Unknown
> Lookout Mountain Laboratory
> 
> Over its lifetime, the studio produced some 19,000 classified motion pictures
> - more than all the Hollywood studios combined (which I guess makes Laurel
> Canyon the real 'motion picture capital of the world'). Officially, the
> facility was run by the U.S. Air Force and did nothing more nefarious than
> process AEC footage of atomic and nuclear bomb tests. The studio, however, was
> clearly equipped to do far more than just process film. There are indications
> that Lookout Mountain Laboratory had an advanced research and development
> department that was on the cutting edge of new film technologies. Such
> technological advances as 3-D effects were apparently first developed at the
> Laurel Canyon site. And Hollywood luminaries like John Ford, Jimmy Stewart,
> Howard Hawks, Ronald Reagan, Bing Crosby, Walt Disney and Marilyn Monroe were
> given clearance to work at the facility on undisclosed projects. There is no
> indication that any of them ever spoke of their work at the clandestine
> studio. 
> 
> http://www.sott.net/image/image/9078/medium/LML.jpg
> ©Unknown
> 
> The facility retained as many as 250 producers, directors, technicians,
> editors, animators, etc., both civilian and military, all with top security
> clearances - and all reporting to work in a secluded corner of Laurel Canyon.
> Accounts vary as to when the facility ceased operations. Some claim it was in
> 1969, while others say the installation remained in operation longer. In any
> event, by all accounts the secret bunker had been up and running for more than
> twenty years before Laurel Canyon's rebellious teen years, and it remained
> operational for the most turbulent of those years.
> 
> The existence of the facility remained unknown to the general public until the
> early 1990s, though it had long been rumored that the CIA operated a secret
> movie studio somewhere in or near Hollywood. Filmmaker Peter Kuran was the
> first to learn of its existence, through classified documents he obtained
> while researching his 1995 documentary, "Trinity and Beyond." And yet even
> today, some 15 years after its public disclosure, one would have trouble
> finding even a single mention of this secret military/intelligence facility
> anywhere in the 'conspiracy' literature.
> 
> http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/SMIL/subjectguides/Social_Sciences/masscomm
> 
> ATOMIC FILMMAKERS: BEHIND THE SCENES
> 50 min. 1998 VC #5032
> Peter Kuran
> Story of the people who worked at Lookout Mountain Laboratory in Hollywood,
> Calif and who were responsible for making
> over 6,500 films for the Dept. of Defense and others, many having to do with
> filming nuclear tests.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lookout_Mountain_Air_Force_Station
> 
> Lookout Mountain Air Force Station
> From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
> 
> 
> Lookout Mountain Air Force Station as seen from above.
> The Lookout Mountain Air Force Station (LMAFS) located on Wonderland Avenue,
> Los Angeles, California, provided in-service production of classified motion
> picture and still photographs to the U.S. Department of Defense and the Atomic
> Energy Commission from 1947-1969.[1]
> The 100,000-square-foot (10,000 m2) facility is built on 2 acres (8,100 m2) of
> land and was originally built in 1941 as a World War II air defense center to
> coordinate radar installations. The studio was established in 1947 and its
> purpose kept secret. The studio consisted of a complete stage, 2 screening
> rooms, a helicopter landing pad, a bomb shelter and 17 climate controlled film
> vaults as well as, two underground parking garages. With the latest equipment
> the studio could process both 35 mm and 16 mm motion pictures as well as
> optical prints and still photographs. The nuclear tests at Nevada Test Site
> were filmed in various formats including CinemaScope, stereophonic sound,
> VistaVision and 3-D photography.[1]
> Contents [hide]
> 1 Personnel
> 2 Films
> 3 Residence
> 4 See also
> 5 References
> 6 External links
> [edit]Personnel
> 
> The studio contained staff from many prominent studios alongside its military
> staff. Civilian personnel from Warner Brothers, Metro-Goldwyn Mayer and RKO
> Pictures worked at the studio in functions such as producers, cameramen and
> directors.[1] W. Donn Hayes (1893-1973), coiner of the American Cinema Editors
> (ACE) title and past president of the Motion Picture Editors Guild, worked at
> Lookout Mountain as his last career assignment; he had been in the film and
> television industries since 1916.[2] Peter G. Kuran worked at Lookout
> Mountain[3] before going on to an award-winning career involving both
> directing and visual effects work. In some cases, Kuran has brought footage of
> atomic tests developed at Lookout Mountain directly to his later work.
> Field staff included photographers who were airmen assigned to the USAF 1352d
> Photographic Squadron,[4] formed out of the 4881st Motion Picture Squadron in
> 1952.[5] In the mid-1960s, Michael R. Potochick was the group commander.[3]
> [edit]Films
> 
> A New Look at the H-bomb (H-bomb and Other Smash Hits). Part 1: A New look at
> the H-bomb; Part 2: Operation Cue; Part 3: United States Civil Defense in
> action; Part 4: Let's face it (produced by United States Air Force Lookout
> Mountain Laboratory Air Photographic and Charting Service); Part 5: What you
> should know about biological warfare (produced in cooperation with the Federal
> Civil Defense Administration). Produced by Reid H. Ray Film Industries, Inc.
> Hollywood's Top Secret Film Studio (Atomic Filmmakers) (VHS) updated and
> rereleased on DVD in 1999 as Hollywood's Top Secret Film Studio - The Atomic
> Filmmakers. Directed by Peter Kuran. DVD includes the documentary Atomic
> Filmakers: Behind The Scenes.
> Trinity and Beyond, (1995) documentary directed by Peter Kuran.
> Nukes In Space (1999). The development of the military intercontinental
> ballistic missile (ICBM). Directed by Peter Kuran.[6]
> Atomic Journeys: Welcome to Ground Zero (1999). A tour of U.S. atomic test
> sites in Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Mississippi, and Alaska. Directed by
> Peter Kuran.[7]
> Nuclear Rescue 911: Broken Arrows & Incidents (2001). Documentary directed by
> Peter Kuran.[8]
> [edit]Residence
> 
> Since its deactivation it has become part of the residential neighborhood
> which has surrounded it, and is presently the residence of a Municipal Court
> Commissioner and an artist.[9]
> [edit]See also
> 
> First Motion Picture Unit
> [edit]References
> 
> ^ a b c US Department of Energy, Nevada Office. The Nevada Test Site's Secret
> Film Studio: Lookout Mountain (July 2006)
> ^ IMDb. Biography for W. Donn Hayes
> ^ a b International Combat Camera Association. ICCA Membership Roster
> ^ University of California, Berkeley. Media Resources Center, Moffett Library.
> Propaganda and Disinformation
> ^ USAF History. 1352nd Sq.
> ^ IMDb. Nukes In Space (1999)
> ^ IMDb. Atomic Journeys: Welcome to Ground Zero (1999)
> ^ IMDb. Nuclear Rescue 911: Broken Arrows & Incidents (2001)
> ^ The Center For Land Use Interpretation. Lookout Mountain
> [edit]External links
> 
> The Center For Land Use Interpretation. Map coordinates of Lookout Mountain.
> California Literary Review. Peter Kuran. Images from How To Photograph An
> Atomic Bomb; some images of Lookout Mountain photographers at work
> 
> Magda Hassan
> 02-01-2009, 10:32 AM
> The existence of the facility remained unknown to the general public until the
> early 1990s, though it had long been rumored that the CIA operated a secret
> movie studio somewhere in or near Hollywood. Filmmaker Peter Kuran was the
> first to learn of its existence, through classified documents he obtained
> while researching his 1995 documentary, "Trinity and Beyond." And yet even
> today, some 15 years after its public disclosure, one would have trouble
> finding even a single mention of this secret military/intelligence facility
> anywhere in the 'conspiracy' literature.
> 
> Puts paid to the theory that you can't keep a big thing secret doesn't it?
> 'Conspiracy Theorists' are often dismissed by others with that brush off. Here
> is a facility producing more films than Hollywood involving hundreds if not
> thousands of people over the years right in the middle of LA a huge metropolis
> and there is no 'evidence' until 1990's.
>  
>  
>  
> In a message dated 7/15/2009 1:14:32 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, Das GOAT
> writes:
>>  
>> http://www.deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-698.html
>>  
>>  
>>  
>> What would become known as Lookout Mountain Laboratory was originally
>> envisioned as an air defense center. Built in 1941 and nestled in
>> two-and-a-half secluded acres off what is now Wonderland Park Avenue, the
>> installation was hidden from view and surrounded by an electrified fence. By
>> 1947, the facility featured a fully operational movie studio. In fact, it is
>> claimed that it was perhaps the world¹s only completely self-contained movie
>> studio. With 100,000 square feet of floor space, the covert studio included
>> sound stages, screening rooms, film processing labs, editing facilities, an
>> animation department, and seventeen climate-controlled film vaults. It also
>> had underground parking, a helicopter pad and a bomb shelter.
>> 
>> Over its  lifetime, the studio produced some 19,000 classified motion
>> pictures ­ more  than all the Hollywood studios combined (which I guess makes
>> Laurel Canyon the  real Œmotion picture capital of the world¹). Officially,
>> the facility was run  by the U.S. Air Force and did nothing more nefarious
>> than process AEC footage  of atomic and nuclear bomb tests. The studio,
>> however, was clearly equipped to  do far more than just process film. There
>> are indications that Lookout  Mountain Laboratory had an advanced research
>> and development department that  was on the cutting edge of new film
>> technologies. Such technological advances  as 3-D effects were apparently
>> first developed at the Laurel Canyon site. And  Hollywood luminaries like
>> John Ford, Jimmy Stewart, Howard Hawks, Ronald  Reagan, Bing Crosby, Walt
>> Disney and Marilyn Monroe were given clearance to  work at the facility on
>> undisclosed projects. There is no indication that any  of them ever spoke of
>> their work at the clandestine studio.
>> 
>> The  facility retained as many as 250 producers, directors, technicians,
>> editors,  animators, etc., both civilian and military, all with top security
>> clearances  ­ and all reporting to work in a secluded corner of Laurel
>> Canyon. Accounts  vary as to when the facility ceased operations. Some claim
>> it was in 1969,  while others say the installation remained in operation
>> longer. In any event,  by all accounts the secret bunker had been up and
>> running for more than twenty  years before Laurel Canyon¹s rebellious teen
>> years, and it remained  operational for the most turbulent of those years.
>> 
>> The existence of  the facility remained unknown to the general public until
>> the early 1990s,  though it had long been rumored that the CIA operated a
>> secret movie studio  somewhere in or near Hollywood. Filmmaker Peter Kuran
>> was the first to learn  of its existence, through classified documents he
>> obtained while researching  his 1995 documentary, ³Trinity and Beyond.² And
>> yet even today, some 15 years  after its public disclosure, one would have
>> trouble finding even a single  mention of this secret military/intelligence
>> facility anywhere in the  Œconspiracy¹ literature.
>> 
>> http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr96.html
>>  
>> 
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