Trapped by Television

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1936. Vintage double-weight reference photograph from the 1936 film, with three stamps on the verso, one crediting photographer Ray Jones, and a mimeo snipe printed on the verso.

From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935, where he worked well into the 1950s.

Llye Talbot is an earnest, intrepid inventor of a television system who inadvertently gets involved with a crooked businessman and gangsters out to steal his invention.

10 x 8 inches. Lightly faded, else Near Fine.

[Book #164529]