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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.
A Brief History of American Zoetrope. Francis Ford Coppola decided he would name his future studio "Zoetrope" after receiving a gift of zoetropes from Mogen Scott-Hansen, founder of a studio called Lanterna Film and owner of a famous collection of early motion picture making equipment.
Oct 26, 2020 · In 1969, after doing studio movies and deciding he wasn't a fan of the system, Coppola opened American Zoetrope. It was his own production shingle in San Francisco. His goal was to take chances on the weird and wild movies that studios usually turned away. The results... were mixed.
May 11, 2021 · While American Zoetrope nominally exists today as Coppola’s personal production company, its real impact lies in its original incarnation as an actual studio, which in many ways was both a product of the 1930s and the turbulent ’60s.
Oct 26, 2022 · A defining chapter in the history of Hollywood's transition from narrative and technical formalism to avant-garde-minded auteurism was the founding of American Zoetrope.
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May 11, 2021 · Throughout the fall of 1969, American Zoetrope began to take shape. Carpenters built “separate offices of equal size for Coppola, Lucas and [John] Korty, Zoetrope’s first official tenant.” The corporate papers for American Zoetrope were filed on November 14, 1969.
In short, it never happened. Why? How is it the boys on the ground floor were able to hold their own while the rest of the industry (the industry that-was-to-be) wilted? The documentary tells all, and shows how even Zoetrope itself, with all of Coppola's pull and energy, wasn't always on terra firma, particularly with Lucas' first film.
