On Wed, 06 Jul 2016 17:04:54 -0600, retrowavelength
<retrowavelength@yahoo.com> wrote:
> About 1923 John McDermott (a talented director and screenwriter)
>began construction of the eventually-sprawling Spider Pool estate house
>and it seems to have begun when McDermott's purchased 6 "Algerian rooms"
>used in a recently completed picture. It turned out to be an ongoing
>project and it's believed he did most or all of the work. Interestingly
>and perhaps suggestively John directed a picture, "The Spider and the
>Rose" in 1923.
>
> A 1927 movie fan magazine described McDermott's house which he
>called his "crazy house." It was an eclectic mix of styles and
>incorporated more defunct movie set props and structures rather than
>seeing the used surplus movie stuff waste away due to neglect. (Sets
>were apparently well made and if cared for would last for many years.)
The task now is for someone to search though movies of that time to see if
the large spider panel is from a movie. A big job to be sure but with old
stuff being digitized fast and computers recognizing images .....
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