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American Zoetrope

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American Zoetrope
TypeProduction company
IndustryMotion pictures
Television
FoundedDecember 12, 1969; 53 years ago (1969-12-12)
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
,
United States
Key people
Francis Ford Coppola
George Lucas
OwnerRoman Coppola
Sofia Coppola
Websitezoetrope.com

American Zoetrope (also known as Omni Zoetrope from 1977 to 1980 and Zoetrope Studios from 1980 until 1990) is a privately run American film production company, centered in San Francisco, California and founded by Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas.

Opened on December 12, 1969,[1] the studio has produced not only the films of Coppola (including Apocalypse Now, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Tetro), but also George Lucas's pre-Star Wars film (THX 1138), as well as many others by avant-garde directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Akira Kurosawa, Wim Wenders and Godfrey Reggio. American Zoetrope was an early adopter of digital filmmaking, including some of the earliest uses of HDTV.

Four films produced by American Zoetrope are included in the American Film Institute's Top 100 Films. American Zoetrope-produced films have received 15 Academy Awards and 68 nominations.

American Zoetrope is located in the Sentinel Building
American Zoetrope is located in the Sentinel Building

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San Francisco

San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California, with 815,201 residents as of 2021, and covers a land area of 46.9 square miles, at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City and the fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. Among the 91 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco was ranked first by per capita income and sixth by aggregate income as of 2021. Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco include SF, San Fran, The City, Frisco, and Baghdad by the Bay.

California

California

California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2 million residents across a total area of approximately 163,696 square miles (423,970 km2), it is the most populous U.S. state and the third-largest by area. It is also the most populated subnational entity in North America and the 34th most populous in the world. The Greater Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas are the nation's second and fifth most populous urban regions respectively, with the former having more than 18.7 million residents and the latter having over 9.6 million. Sacramento is the state's capital, while Los Angeles is the most populous city in the state and the second most populous city in the country. San Francisco is the second most densely populated major city in the country. Los Angeles County is the country's most populous, while San Bernardino County is the largest county by area in the country. California borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, the Mexican state of Baja California to the south; and it has a coastline along the Pacific Ocean to the west.

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the major figures of the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Coppola is the recipient of five Academy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, two Palmes d'Or and a British Academy Film Award (BAFTA).

George Lucas

George Lucas

George Walton Lucas Jr. is an American filmmaker. Lucas is best known for creating the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises and founding Lucasfilm, LucasArts, Industrial Light & Magic and THX. He served as chairman of Lucasfilm before selling it to The Walt Disney Company in 2012. Lucas is one of history's most financially successful filmmakers and has been nominated for four Academy Awards. His films are among the 100 highest-grossing movies at the North American box office, adjusted for ticket-price inflation. Lucas is considered to be one of the most significant figures of the 20th-century New Hollywood movement, and a pioneer of the modern blockbuster.

Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola, John Milius and Michael Herr, is loosely based on the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War. The film follows a river journey from South Vietnam into Cambodia undertaken by Captain Willard, who is on a secret mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz, a renegade Special Forces officer who is accused of murder and presumed insane. The ensemble cast also features Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne and Dennis Hopper.

Tetro

Tetro

Tetro is a 2009 drama film written, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Vincent Gallo, Alden Ehrenreich and Maribel Verdú. Filming took place in 2008 in Buenos Aires, Patagonia, and Spain. An international co-production between the United States, Argentina, Spain and Italy, the film received a limited theatrical release in the U.S. on June 11, 2009.

Star Wars

Star Wars

Star Wars is an American epic space opera multimedia franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the eponymous 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon. The franchise has been expanded into various films and other media, including television series, video games, novels, comic books, theme park attractions, and themed areas, comprising an all-encompassing fictional universe. Star Wars is one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time.

THX 1138

THX 1138

THX 1138 is a 1971 American social science fiction film co-written and directed by George Lucas in his directorial debut. Produced by Francis Ford Coppola and co-written by Walter Murch, the film stars Robert Duvall and Donald Pleasence, with Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie and Ian Wolfe in supporting roles. The film is set in a dystopian future in which the populace is controlled through android police and mandatory use of drugs that suppress emotions.

Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as François Truffaut, Agnès Varda, Éric Rohmer, and Jacques Demy. He was arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era. According to AllMovie, his work "revolutionized the motion picture form" through its experimentation with narrative, continuity, sound, and camerawork. His most acclaimed films include Breathless (1960), Vivre sa vie (1962), Contempt (1963), Band of Outsiders (1964), Alphaville (1965), Pierrot le Fou (1965), Masculin Féminin (1966), Weekend (1967), and Goodbye to Language (2014).

Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed thirty films in a career spanning over five decades. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Kurosawa displayed a bold, dynamic style, strongly influenced by Western cinema yet distinct from it; he was involved with all aspects of film production.

Godfrey Reggio

Godfrey Reggio

Godfrey Reggio is an American director of experimental documentary films.

Academy Awards

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry. They are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), in recognition of excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership. The Academy Awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment industry in the United States and worldwide. The Oscar statuette depicts a knight rendered in the Art Deco style.

Formation

Initially located in a warehouse at 827[2][3][4] Folsom Street on the second floor of The Automatt building, the company's headquarters have, since 1972,[5] been in the historic Sentinel Building, at 916 Kearny Street in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood.

Coppola named the studio after a zoetrope he was given in the late 1960s by the filmmaker and collector of early film devices, Mogens Skot-Hansen. "Zoetrope" is also the name by which Coppola's quarterly fiction magazine, Zoetrope: All-Story, is often known.

In 1980, the company bought General Service Studios in Hollywood, California, and became Zoetrope Studios, to produce and distribute films, as did later DreamWorks studio.[6][7]

In 1999, it signed a deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for a first-look financing and production agreement.[8] In 2000, it signed a 10-year financing pact with VCL Film + Meiden to handle foreign sales of their own titles.[9]

American Zoetrope is now owned entirely by Coppola's son and daughter, directors Roman Coppola and Sofia Coppola,[10] while a majority of the film library is now owned by Lionsgate (with some exceptions, for example, Bram Stoker's Dracula, which is currently owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment) while StudioCanal owns international distribution rights.

Zoetrope.com, the Coppola family's website, was created around 1996 and became an online community for writers. In 2016, Francis Ford Coppola announced its relaunch as a "virtual studio".[11]

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Folsom Street

Folsom Street

Folsom Street is a street in San Francisco which begins perpendicular to Alemany Boulevard in San Francisco's Bernal Heights district and ends perpendicular to the Embarcadero on the San Francisco Bay. For its southern half, Folsom Street runs north–south, but it turns northeasterly at 13th street. It runs through San Francisco's Bernal Heights district, Mission District, SoMa District, Yerba Buena District, and South Beach district.

Columbus Tower (San Francisco)

Columbus Tower (San Francisco)

Columbus Tower, also known as the Sentinel Building, is a mixed-use building in San Francisco, California, completed in 1907. The distinctive copper-green Flatiron style structure is bounded by Columbus Avenue, Kearny Street, and Jackson Street; straddling the North Beach, Chinatown, and Financial District neighborhoods of the city. Much of the building is occupied by film studio American Zoetrope, and the ground floor houses a cafe named after the company. The Sentinel Building is listed as San Francisco Designated Landmark No. 33.

Kearny Street

Kearny Street

Kearny Street in San Francisco, California runs north from Market Street to The Embarcadero. Toward its south end, it separates the Financial District from the Union Square and Chinatown districts. Further north, it passes over Telegraph Hill, interrupted by a gap near Coit Tower.

San Francisco

San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California, with 815,201 residents as of 2021, and covers a land area of 46.9 square miles, at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City and the fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. Among the 91 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco was ranked first by per capita income and sixth by aggregate income as of 2021. Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco include SF, San Fran, The City, Frisco, and Baghdad by the Bay.

Hollywood, Los Angeles

Hollywood, Los Angeles

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. Its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the U.S. film industry and the people associated with it. Many notable film studios, such as Columbia Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., and Universal Pictures, are located near or in Hollywood.

California

California

California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2 million residents across a total area of approximately 163,696 square miles (423,970 km2), it is the most populous U.S. state and the third-largest by area. It is also the most populated subnational entity in North America and the 34th most populous in the world. The Greater Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas are the nation's second and fifth most populous urban regions respectively, with the former having more than 18.7 million residents and the latter having over 9.6 million. Sacramento is the state's capital, while Los Angeles is the most populous city in the state and the second most populous city in the country. San Francisco is the second most densely populated major city in the country. Los Angeles County is the country's most populous, while San Bernardino County is the largest county by area in the country. California borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, the Mexican state of Baja California to the south; and it has a coastline along the Pacific Ocean to the west.

DreamWorks Pictures

DreamWorks Pictures

DreamWorks Pictures is an American film company and distribution label of Amblin Partners. It was originally founded on October 12, 1994 as a live-action film studio by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen, of which they owned 72%. The studio formerly distributed its own and third-party films. It has produced or distributed more than ten films with box-office grosses of more than $100 million each.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc., also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and abbreviated as MGM, is an American film, television production, distribution and media company owned by Amazon through MGM Holdings, founded on April 17, 1924, and based in Beverly Hills, California.

Roman Coppola

Roman Coppola

Roman François Coppola is an American director, screenwriter, producer. He is the son of Francis Ford Coppola and Eleanor Coppola.

Sofia Coppola

Sofia Coppola

Sofia Carmina Coppola is an American filmmaker and actress. She has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Golden Lion, and a Cannes Film Festival Award, as well as a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.

Lionsgate

Lionsgate

Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation, doing business as Lionsgate, is a Canadian-American entertainment company. It was formed by Frank Giustra on July 10, 1997, domiciled in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and is currently headquartered in Santa Monica, California, United States. In addition to its flagship Lionsgate Films division, the company contains other divisions such as Lionsgate Television and Lionsgate Interactive. It owns a variety of subsidiaries such as Summit Entertainment, Debmar-Mercury, and Starz Inc.

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992 film)

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992 film)

Bram Stoker's Dracula is a 1992 American Gothic horror film directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. It stars Gary Oldman as Count Dracula, Winona Ryder as Mina Harker, Anthony Hopkins as Professor Abraham Van Helsing, and Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker.

Filmography

Feature films

Year Title Director Company Credit References
1969 The Rain People Francis Ford Coppola American Zoetrope Production company [12][13]
1971 THX 1138 George Lucas [12]
1972 The Godfather Francis Ford Coppola [12]
Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King Hans-Jürgen Syberberg Distributor [12]
1973 American Graffiti George Lucas Production company [12]
1974 The Conversation Francis Ford Coppola [12]
The Godfather Part II Francis Ford Coppola Production facilities furnished through (as American Zoetrope San Francisco) [12]
1977 Perfumed Nightmare Kidlat Tahimik Distributor [12]
Hitler: A Film from Germany Hans-Jürgen Syberberg Omni Zoetrope Distributor [12]
1979 Apocalypse Now Francis Ford Coppola Production company [12][14]
The Black Stallion Carroll Ballard [12]
1980 Sauve qui peut (la vie) Jean-Luc Godard Zoetrope Studios Production company/distributor [12]
Kagemusha Akira Kurosawa Production company [12]
1982 Parsifal Hans-Jürgen Syberberg Distributor [12]
The Escape Artist Caleb Deschanel Production company [12]
Passion Jean-Luc Godard Production company/distributor [12]
The Grey Fox Phillip Borsos Production company [12]
Koyaanisqatsi Godfrey Reggio
The Making of 'One from the Heart' Tony St. John
Hammett Wim Wenders [12]
One from the Heart Francis Ford Coppola Production company/distributor [12]
1983 The Outsiders Francis Ford Coppola Production company [12]
Rumble Fish Francis Ford Coppola [12]
The Black Stallion Returns Robert Dalva [12]
1984 The Cotton Club Francis Ford Coppola [12]
1985 Seven Minutes in Heaven Linda Feferman
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters Paul Schrader [12]
1986 Peggy Sue Got Married Francis Ford Coppola [12]
1987 Tough Guys Don't Dance Norman Mailer
Gardens of Stone Francis Ford Coppola [12]
Barfly Barbet Schroeder [12]
1988 Tucker: The Man and His Dream Francis Ford Coppola
1989 Wait Until Spring, Bandini Dominique Deruddere [12]
1990 The Godfather Part III Francis Ford Coppola [12]
1991 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper American Zoetrope [12]
1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula Francis Ford Coppola [12]
Wind Carroll Ballard [12]
1993 The Secret Garden Agnieszka Holland [12]
1994 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Kenneth Branagh [12]
Don Juan DeMarco Jeremy Leven [12]
1995 Haunted Lewis Gilbert
My Family Gregory Nava [12]
1996 Jack Francis Ford Coppola [12]
1997 The Rainmaker Francis Ford Coppola [12]
Buddy Caroline Thompson Production company (as An American Zoetrope Production) [12]
1999 The Florentine Nick Stagliano Production company
The Virgin Suicides Sofia Coppola [12]
The Third Miracle Agnieszka Holland [12]
Sleepy Hollow Tim Burton [12]
2001 Jeepers Creepers Victor Salva [12]
CQ Roman Coppola [12]
No Such Thing Hal Hartley [12]
Suriyothai Chatrichalerm Yukol [12]
2002 Pumpkin Anthony Abrams and Adam Larson Broder [12]
Assassination Tango Robert Duvall [12]
2003 Lost in Translation Sofia Coppola [12]
Jeepers Creepers 2 Victor Salva [12]
2004 Kinsey Bill Condon Production company (uncredited) [12]
2006 Marie Antoinette Sofia Coppola Production company [12]
The Good Shepherd Robert De Niro [12]
2007 Youth Without Youth Francis Ford Coppola [12]
2009 Tetro Francis Ford Coppola [12]
2010 Somewhere Sofia Coppola
2011 Twixt Francis Ford Coppola [12]
2012 A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III Roman Coppola [12]
On the Road Walter Salles [12]
2013 Palo Alto Gia Coppola [12]
The Bling Ring Sofia Coppola [12]
2014 Life After Beth Jeff Baena [12]
2015 A Very Murray Christmas Sofia Coppola [12]
Last Days in the Desert Rodrigo García [15]
2016 Paris Can Wait Eleanor Coppola [12]
Joshy Jeff Baena [12]
2017 The Beguiled Sofia Coppola [12]
2020 Love Is Love Is Love Eleanor Coppola [16]
On the Rocks Sofia Coppola [17]
2021 Mainstream Gia Coppola [18]
2023 Fairyland Andrew Durham [19]

Television series

Year Title Creator Company Credit Network Notes References
1990 The Outsiders characters by:
S.E. Hinton
developed by:
S.E. Hinton
Joe Byrne
Jeb Rosebrook 		Zoetrope Studios Production Company Fox co-production with Papazian-Hirsch Entertainment
1997 The Odyssey Andrei Konchalovsky
based on Odyssey by:
Homer 		American Zoetrope Production Company (as American Zoetrope San Francisco) NBC miniseries; co-production with Hallmark Entertainment [12]
1998 Moby Dick Anton Diether
Franc Roddam
Benedict Fitzgerald
based on Moby-Dick by:
Herman Melville 		Production Company USA Network miniseries; co-production with Nine Network Australia and USA Pictures [12]
1998-2001 First Wave Chris Brancato Sci-Fi Channel co-production with Sugar Entertainment [12]
2003 Platinum John Ridley
Sofia Coppola 		UPN co-production with The Greenblatt/Janollari Studio, International Famous Players Radio Picture Corporation and Eye Productions [20]
2004-2007 The 4400 René Echevarria
Scott Peters 		USA Network co-production with Renegade 83, Viacom Productions (season 1), Paramount Network Television (season 2) and CBS Paramount Network Television (seasons 3–4)
2014-2018 Mozart in the Jungle based on Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music by:
Blair Tindall
developed by:
Roman Coppola
Jason Schwartzman
Alex Timbers
Paul Weitz 		Amazon Video co-production with Depth of Field, Picrow and Amazon Studios [12]
Cafe Zoetrope at ground level of the building
Cafe Zoetrope at ground level of the building

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THX 1138

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George Lucas

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The Godfather

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Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King

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American Graffiti

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The Conversation

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Perfumed Nightmare

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Kidlat Tahimik

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Hitler: A Film from Germany

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Apocalypse Now

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Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola, John Milius and Michael Herr, is loosely based on the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War. The film follows a river journey from South Vietnam into Cambodia undertaken by Captain Willard, who is on a secret mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz, a renegade Special Forces officer who is accused of murder and presumed insane. The ensemble cast also features Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne and Dennis Hopper.

Cafe Zoetrope

In the building lobby, Coppola operates a small Italian café, Cafe Zoetrope, featuring Inglenook Estate wine and memorabilia from his films.[21] Earlier, the building had been the location of Enrico Banducci's "hungry i" nightclub.

The neighborhood is well known for its cafes and its writers. Coppola wrote much of the screenplay for The Godfather in the nearby Caffe Trieste and Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Books is located up Columbus Avenue from the Sentinel Building.

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Enrico Banducci

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Enrico Banducci was an American impresario. Banducci operated the hungry i nightclub in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, where he launched the careers of The Kingston Trio, Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Bill Cosby, Jonathan Winters, and Barbra Streisand, and featured Woody Allen and Dick Cavett before they were well-known, as well as countless folk singers and comedians. The hungry i featured the original brick wall in the stage background, a staple for stand up comedy presentations ever since. Banducci bought the hungry i from its founder, Eric "Big Daddy" Nord, in 1950. Banducci later also started the Clown Alley hamburger stand as well as Enrico's Sidewalk Cafe on Broadway, a restaurant and jazz club that has since gone out of business.

Hungry i

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The hungry i was a nightclub in San Francisco, California, originally located in the North Beach neighborhood. It played a major role in the history of stand-up comedy in the United States. It was launched by Eric "Big Daddy" Nord, who sold it to Enrico Banducci in 1951. The club moved to Ghirardelli Square in 1967 and operated mostly as a rock music venue until it closed in 1970.

The Godfather

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The Godfather is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo, based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel of the same title. The film stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard Conte, and Diane Keaton. It is the first installment in The Godfather trilogy, chronicling the Corleone family under patriarch Vito Corleone (Brando) from 1945 to 1955. It focuses on the transformation of his youngest son, Michael Corleone (Pacino), from reluctant family outsider to ruthless mafia boss.

Caffe Trieste

Caffe Trieste

Caffè Trieste is an internationally known coffeehouse, retail store, and former franchise in San Francisco. The original cafe, opened in 1956, was the first espresso-based coffeehouse on the West Coast of the United States. Caffe Trieste is considered a San Francisco institution and a local hub for poets, writers, and beat culture.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti was an American poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. The author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, Ferlinghetti was best known for his second collection of poems, A Coney Island of the Mind (1958), which has been translated into nine languages and sold over a million copies. When Ferlinghetti turned 100 in March 2019, the city of San Francisco turned his birthday, March 24, into "Lawrence Ferlinghetti Day".

Source: "American Zoetrope", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 20th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Zoetrope.

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Francis Ford Coppola

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992 film)

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Tucker: The Man and His Dream

Sunset Las Palmas Studios

Roman Coppola

One from the Heart

Columbus Tower (San Francisco)

Michael Ballhaus

Eiko Ishioka

James V. Hart

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1974 film)

Apocalypse Now

August Coppola
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References
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  2. ^ Howell, Daedalus (January 31, 2013). "American Zoetrope: 827 Folsom, San Francisco". Daedalus Howell. Retrieved March 2, 2022.
  3. ^ oneperfectshot. "[WATCH] The Rise and Revolution of American Zoetrope and New Hollywood". Twitter. Retrieved March 2, 2022.
  4. ^ Connelly, Sherilyn (October 24, 2011). "The City's First Dot-Com, 1969: George Lucas and Francis Coppola's American Zoetrope". SF Weekly. Retrieved March 2, 2022.
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