Pan Pacific Auditorium

This 1957 image shows the Pan Pacific Auditorium, a casualty of time and fire that was once located near the CBS Television studios and the current site of the Grove Shopping Center.

Its final gasp of glory was in the movie "Xanadu" from 1980. Today, it is commemorated in the façades of the entrances to DCA and Disney's Hollywood Studios in Orlando.

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Here's a rare interior shot from the 1940's:



Check out that drum line!



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Dreams For Sale, Pt. 2

The big selling items from the upcoming November 23rd Turner Classic Movies (aka TCM) and Bonhams Treasures From The Dream Factory auction are the ones from the 1941 Orson Welles classic, "Citizen Kane." This charcoal sketch depicts one of the opening shots from the movie. This second one shows Xanadu, the palatial home of Charles Foster Kane. The listing gives possible credit to Mario Larrinaga, who created the matte paintings used in the film.



Compare with a frame from the final film. Matte magic at its best!



Of course the real grabber from the auction is the Rosebud sled pictured below. Given to screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz at the end of filming, this is an incredible Holy Grail of movie history.



Estimated to sell at $100,000-200,000. I predict much more.









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