The ghosts of Hollywood’s past haunt Bryn Mooser ’s office building—but that’s just the way he likes it.

At one of LA’s oldest soundstages, built by legendary movie producer Mack Sennett and opened in 1916, the walls are covered with pictures of Mabel Normand, one of the greatest comedians of the silent-film era and one of the first women to have her own studio. Charlie Chaplin filmed movies in this sprawling 25,000-square-foot space; so did David Lynch and Martin Scorsese . In its later years, music videos like Michael Jackson’s “Remember the Time,” No Doubt’s “Don’t Speak,” and Robin Thicke ’s “Blurred Lines” were all shot there.

Mooser, a prolific movie producer, likes to be surrounded by reminders of Hollywood’s progress—the leap to talkies, the infiltration of color, t

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