Echo Park Film Center Presents “Hooray for Edendale!”

For those of you who are interested in learning a little bit about Echo Park’s history, the Echo Park Film Center will be presenting Hooray for Edendale! this Saturday, March 20 at 8:00 pm. The film is a documentary that tells the story of Echo Park at the beginning of the 20th century and the film studios that helped to create Los Angeles’s film industry.

A celebration of the birth and early growth of the movie industry in Los Angeles that happened right here in our neighborhood! Award-winning film editor, writer and film industry historian Robert S. Birchard presents over 100 images and some early films exploring the Selig, Keystone/Bison, Pathe, Mixville and Norbig studios that constituted L.A.’s first “Studio Row” in the 1910’s.

The screening is FREE and open to everyone. The Echo Park Film Center is located at 1200 N. Alvarado St.