Ghosts of Edendale Screening With Director Stefan Avalos
About the event
Get in the Halloween spirit and learn about neighborhood history–join the Echo Park Historical Society in the Edendale Library meeting room for a screening of the supernatural thriller The Ghosts of Edendale, with writer and director Stefan Avalos!
Long before “Hollywood” became synonymous with the commercial film industry, the Echo Park area, known as Edendale, was the center of filmmaking on the West Coast. There were several thriving film studios along Allesandro Avenue (now Glendale Boulevard), including the Selig Polyscope Company, the Mack Sennett Studios, and the Pathé West Coast Film Studio. The Keystone Kops drove their paddy wagon up and down the nearby hills and crashed it into Echo Park Lake. Stars like Mabel Normand, Fatty Arbuckle, and Harold Lloyd filmed pictures here, and Charlie Chaplin’s first film was made at the Mack Sennett Studios. William Selig leased part of a nearby ranch to shoot westerns, which was soon bought by Tom Mix and renamed Mixville. But by the 1920s, most of the studios and production had moved west to Hollywood, and Edendale became a quiet downtown-adjacent residential neighborhood.
Filmmaker Stefan Avalos moved to the area in 2001, and…
