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european drama network was founded by producer Simon M Woods to produce modern movies of classic european plays and texts and distribute them online.  Although managed from a location in rural Worcestershire, England, it is fitting that this 'The Whole Equation' (or 'About Us') section should be written in an apartment in Downtown Los Angeles on the corner of 3rd and South Broadway, because the inspiration for the network is located here, the heart of the movie business in the silent era. It was a desire to make movies and lots of them, like the Hollywood
studio system of the 1920's and 1930's that drove the creation of
European Drama Network. Even the name 'The Whole Equation', takes its title from a line in F Scots Fitzgerald's unfinished novel 'The Last Tycoon' about Hollywood before the talkies. Its leading character based loosely on the legendary Hollywood producer, Irvine Thalberg, the boy wonder, who as head of production at MGM not only produced blockbusters like 'Ben Hur' but also its most creative and less commercial movies such as 'The Crowd'. It is also the title used for a book of a collection of essays by critic David Thomson about the history of Hollywood. Operating more like a theatre company than film producers, european drama network is committed to making movies that relish in the artifice of both film and theatre and that dispense with the current cinematic norm of reflecting the real world. While we admire the many great directing and acting talents who are making bigger budget and bigger audience films, this is not our way. We appreciate the talents of the vast number of great, but lesser known actors and directors who have a more individual eye. It is these talents and the rarer and lesser performed plays of european drama that we seek to eulogise, from Euripides and Homer to Goldoni and Chekhov. In doing what we like, we hope you will enjoy what we do too.  As for the 3rd and Broadway connection? On the opposite corners from the apartment where I write this, is both the Bradbury Building, which features heavily in the movie 'Blade Runner', and The Million Dollar Theater. Built in 1917 this was the first cinema opened by Sid Grauman, now more famous for the Chinese Theater in Hollywood with its cement hand and foot prints of the stars. The greatest silent movie stars not only appeared on screen at the Million Dollar Theater but most, from Mary Pickford to Rudolf Valentino, also appeared on its stage, Sid Grauman getting them to perform live at the premier of their newest movie. Valentino once fell in the orchestra pit and almost knocked himself unconscious.
Grauman went on to refurbish the Rialto theater on South Broadway before moving on to Hollywood.
For some of the information above I am indebted to the Bunker Hill Magazine in Downtown LA and the article by Denise Reich (June 2011).
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