ADOLPH ZUKOR / JESSE LASKY

An historic letter between American Motion Picture pioneers 

on sound in film

Plans to expand the use of sound in motion pictures

Adolph Zukor's typed  letter, three full, single spaced pages

July 23, 1928

on Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation

 Paramount Pictures letterhead

Times Square, New York

to Jesse L. Lasky **

Hollywood, California

Signed: "Adolph Zukor"

In part: "...would advise having one of existing projection rooms 

equipped immediately ... / with Western Electric as they are having the

 best engineers in the world work on the sound process ... / I believe that 

we should make an effort to do a talking picture with Bebe (Daniels)... /

today we are experimenting with Eddie Cantor..."

  

Condition: old punch  holes across top margin, else very good

** Jesse L. Lasky was an American motion picture pioneer who produced

 the first film in Hollywood, the epic western, The Squaw Man (1913). 

 Formed studio with his brother-in-law Samuel Goldwyn and was a

key founder of Paramount Pictures with Adolph Zukor. 

In 1927, Lasky was one of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion 

 Picture Arts and Sciences. 

Adolph Zukor was a Hungarian-American film producer, one of the three founders

 of Paramount Pictures with Jesse L. Lasky and William Wadsworth Hodkinson.

He produced one of Hollywood's first feature-length films 

The Prisoner of Zenda (1913). 

In 1949 an Honorary Academy Award was presented to Zukor for his services 

to the industry over a forty year period.

Remained Paramount's Chairman of the Board until his death

 in 1976 at age 103. 

Adolph Zukor, born: 1873, Ricse, Hungary; died: 1976, Los Angeles, California.

Jesse L. Lasky, born: 1880, San Francisco, California; died: 1958, Beverly Hills, California.