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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: W.W. Hodkinson papers
Creator:
Hodkinson, W.W. (William Wadsworth)
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1171
Physical Description:
13.5 Linear Feet
(27 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1881-1971
Abstract: W.W. (William Wallace) Hodkinson (1881-19710) opened one of the nation's first movie theaters in Ogden, Utah in 1907. He became
a leading West Coast film distributor, and founded Paramount company in 1914 for distributing films of Adolph Zukor's Famous
Players Company. He left the motion picture business in 1929 to form Hodkinson Aviation Corporation, and later formed the
Central American Aviation Corporation and Companía Nacional de Aviación in Guatemala. The collection consists of correspondence,
financial records, diaries, reports, notes, photographs, tape recordings, clippings, and other printed material related to
Hodkinson's involvement with the motion picture and aviation industries.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
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Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located
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Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
[Identification of item], W.W. Hodkinson papers (Collection 1171). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Original rough box numbers are given in square brackets following each entry; the original labels which contained brief descriptions
of contents have been retained in the Collections File.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
1720472
Hodkinson was born in 1881 in Pueblo, Colorado; worked as railroad telegrapher and correspondence school salesman; opened
one of the nation's first movie theaters in Ogden, Utah in 1907; became a leading West Coast film distributor; went to New
York in 1914 to negotiate film contracts, remaining to become one of the leading East Coast distributors; founded Paramount
company in 1914 for distributing films of Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Company; company name changed in 1918 to Paramount
Pictures; left motion picture business in 1929 to form Hodkinson Aviation Corporation, and later formed the Central American
Aviation Corporation and Companía Nacional de Aviación in Guatemala; he died in 1971.
Collection consists of correspondence, financial records, diaries, reports, notes, photographs, tape recordings, clippings,
and other printed material related to the involvement of William Wallace Hodkinson with the motion picture and aviation industries.
Arranged in the following series:
- Original diaries (Boxes 1-4).
- Aviation (Boxes 5-8).
- Motion picture industry (Boxes 9-27).
Pioneer film distributor
Interview of name of W.W. Hodkinson [oral history transcript] / Elizabeth I. Dixon, interviewer. UCLA Library Special Collections,
Center for Oral History Research interview, 1966-1967. Available at UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, UCLA.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Aeronautics, Commercial -- Archives.
Motion pictures -- Distribution -- Archives.
Diaries.
Paramount Pictures Corporation (1914-1927)
Hodkinson, W.W. (William Wadsworth), 1881-1971--Archives.