connection to the team behind Churchill-Wexler Film Productions, a company that once inhabited 801 Seward Street (now D’Ziner Sign Co.) and created many of the educational films shown in schools from the Fifties through the Eighties. Technicolor—who once occupied 823 Seward (the current home of film production company, Smuggler, Inc.)—now resides a few doors down at 861, a building with a history colorful enough to make the company proud. Harman-Ising Studios made many of their Happy Harmonies here before Disney occupied the location in 1938. The latter studio needed a space for its Bambi animators during its Burbank studios' construction. A decade later, Woody Woodpecker’s creator, Walter Lantz Productions, moved in. After a devastating fire destroyed its Melrose Avenue plant in 1929, Consolidated Film Industries built a massive processing facility at what is now 933 to 959 Seward Street, the modern glass and steel structure currently home to post-production audio powerhouse, Formosa Group. The Harlow, located at 1001 Seward Street, is one of the District's newest builds and perfectly bridges the street's past and future through both its purpose and design. This ultramodern structure evokes the sweeping design of an old Hollywood soundstage and boasts more than 100,000 sq. ft. of office space developed for the digital content creators who now lead the industry. Whereas Seward may not be the star at the top of Hollywood’s well-lit marquee (there are plenty of other streets in competition for that title), it remains one of the city’s most vital and hard-working supporting players, a role it has held humbly and proudly for many decades and likely will for many more to come. z
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