A Trip to Paramountown

''A Trip to Paramountown'' is a 1922 American short film, short silent film, silent documentary film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released through Paramount Pictures, to celebrate 10 years of Paramount's founding. The film runs about 20 minutes and features many personalities then under contract to Famous Players-Lasky and Paramount.

Overview

''A Trip to Paramountown'' is a promotional vehicle intended to show film industry employees in their normal, everyday work settings. It was released in the wake of several scandals associated with the film industry, such as the manslaughter trial involving silent screen comedian Roscoe Arbuckle, the death of actress Olive Thomas, who actually had died in New York City, New York, the murder of director William Desmond Taylor, and the drug-induced decline of Wallace Reid, who had been given morphine by a studio doctor after an on-set train wreck in 1919, which resulted in Reid's drug addiction and eventual death in January 1923.

This film influenced later studio-related scripted film fare such as Paramount's own ''Hollywood (1923 film), Hollywood'' (1923), Goldwyn Pictures, Goldwyn's ''Souls for Sale'' (1923), and MGM's ''Show People'' (1928).

Paramount later released ''A Trip Through the Paramount Studio'' (1927) in response to MGM's ''MGM Studio Tour'' (1925).

''A Trip to Paramountown'' was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Cast

Studio personnel, primarily actors, appear as themselves in cameos.

* T. Roy Barnes
* Alice Brady
* Betty Compson
* Dorothy Dalton
* Bebe Daniels
* Marion Davies
* William C. deMille
* Cecil B. DeMille
* George Fawcett
* Julia Faye
* Elsie Ferguson
* Wanda Hawley
* Jack Holt (actor), Jack Holt
* Leatrice Joy
* Lila Lee
* Walter Long (actor), Walter Long
* Bert Lytell
* May McAvoy
* Thomas Meighan
* George Melford
* Mary Miles Minter
* Tom Moore (actor), Tom Moore
* Conrad Nagel
* Nita Naldi
* Anna Q. Nilsson
* Wallace Reid
* Theodore Roberts
* Milton Sills
* Gloria Swanson
* Rudolph Valentino

Availability

''A Trip to Paramountown'' was released on Flicker Alley's 2007 DVD of several rare Rudolph Valentino films.

See also

*''The House That Shadows Built'' (1931 promotional film produced by Paramount)

References

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1922 films
1922 documentary films
1922 short films
American short documentary films
American silent short films
Black-and-white documentary films
Famous Players-Lasky films
Paramount Pictures short films
Documentary films about Hollywood, Los Angeles
American black-and-white films
1920s short documentary films
1920s American films

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