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The Franklin Hotel
From the course: Photography Foundations: Composition
The Franklin Hotel
This is the Franklin Hotel. It's just off of the main square in Mangum. It's a beautiful five-story building built in 1929 for the than astronomical cost of $230,000. From what we understand, when it opened, it was a very regal place. This was meant to be the jewel hotel in this part of the state. Unfortunately, it opened just four to six weeks before the crash in 1929, and so sadly, it just never stood a chance. There was the crash and then the Depression of the Dust Bowl and then World War II. It's now abandoned, very, very abandoned, and we've been talking to some of the locals. We talked to a local high school student who said that it's haunted and that this whole in the awning is because some woman jumped out of the fifth-story window and went through the awning and so she still prowls the place and all that kind of stuff. The people of Mangum are being very responsible with the building. It's really sturdy. It's very well built. That's how it's been able to stand the test of…
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Lines7m 7s
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Analyzing lines6m 35s
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Exploring a town4m 7s
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The Franklin Hotel2m 7s
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Shapes10m 13s
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Repetition: Arranging the elements1m 37s
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Rule of threes1m 36s
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Perspective1m 47s
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Symmetry1m 10s
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Focal length, camera position, and depth2m 27s
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Intersections1m 41s
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Exercise: Practicing fundamentals with geometry1m 21s
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