{"id":77,"date":"2009-02-14T13:22:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T13:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2009-02-14T13:33:13","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T13:33:13","slug":"orange-countys-first-film-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2009\/02\/14\/orange-countys-first-film-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange County’s First Film Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"
While\u00a0movie theatres have\u00a0existed in Orange County for slightly over one hundred years, the first public screening of a motion picture in the county\u00a0dates back\u00a0to June 25, 1897. Held in the upstairs “opera house”, of Santa Ana’s 2nd Spurgeon Building, the film presented was the, March 1897, James J. Corbett vs. Bob Fitzsimmons heavyweight title fight.<\/div>\n
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Filmed by Enoch Rector, utilizing three 63 mm cameras, the fourteen round fight\u00a0had been\u00a0captured on 11,000 feet of film and transfered to Rector’s, proprietary, Veriscope projection technology for distribution. Developing in to somewhat of a national sensation, the Corbett vs. Fitzsimmons film had toured the country, via territorial licensing agreements, earning an estimated $120,000 nation wide. Perhaps, due to the territory’s licensee, the Santa Ana showing was billed as being\u00a0a “Vivascope Production”, rather than\u00a0the official “Veriscope”.<\/div>\n
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Proving how cyclical issues of social morals and\u00a0film content\u00a0can be, newspaper coverage of the\u00a0day tended to focus on the film’s “brutality” and the “hideous depravity” of viewing such images. Equally reminiscent of modern cinematic controversies, many areas sought to\u00a0block the film’s showing and several states attempted to pass legislation, in an effort to protect “public decency”. Yet, just as we experience today, the “outrage” and “controversy” only served to promote the film further. At Santa Ana’s Spurgeon Building, the Corbett vs. Fitzsimmons film proved, not only to be Orange County’s first motion picture screening, but\u00a0also the county’s first sold out movie.\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While\u00a0movie theatres have\u00a0existed in Orange County for slightly over one hundred years, the first public screening of a motion picture in the county\u00a0dates back\u00a0to June 25, 1897. Held in the upstairs “opera house”, of Santa Ana’s 2nd Spurgeon Building, the film presented was the, March 1897, James J. Corbett vs. Bob Fitzsimmons heavyweight title fight. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}