New Book Celebrates History of Oklahoma City's Film Row

July 26, 2011 - PRLog -- Oklahoma City: Film Row, a new pictorial history book that tells the story of the recently revitalized Oklahoma City Film Exchange District through never-before-seen vintage photographs, will be published August 15.

Film Row once flourished as a sales hub for theater owners needing films, posters, and concessions for their Midwest venues. The film exchange offices along this three-square-block area housed major film production studios like Paramount Pictures, MGM, Universal, Fox, and Warner Brothers from 1907 until the 1980s. But changes in demographics, economy, and technology nearly wiped their memory from the city landscape.

Now these decades-old structures and their nearly forgotten history are being rediscovered and utilized once again for business. This book tells their story through rare images discovered in shoeboxes, back rooms, and the Oklahoma Historical Society’s archives. Most of the images within these pages are shared here for the very first time.

"My research revealed many photographs of long forgotten faces and places within my community," Wynn said. "I quickly realized that I had an obligation to preserve them. By taking the time to brush away the cobwebs and reveal the lives and world these people lived in then, we begin to better understand the people and the world we live in today."

Oklahoma City: Film Row will be available August 15, 2011 at area bookstores, independent retailers, online retailers and through Arcadia Publishing at (888) 313-2665 or www.arcadiapublishing.com.

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