HOLLYWOOD, THE MOVIE INDUSTRY AND MOVIE STARS

 

Hollywood

 

220264                             00:22:36                               1939          Sil            B/W

Walter Wanger  close ups
[Hollywood Studio - Walter Wanger, Meehan, Lovering, Harry Warner]

 

220264                             00:24:08                               1939                       B/W     [Hollywood Studio - Walter Wanger, Meehan, Lovering, Harry Warner]

Walter Wanger sitting at desk talking (MOS) w/John Meehan & Otto Lovering.   11:331:52 Insert of hand checking figures.  CU of Harry Warner.

 

220264                             00:31:34                               1939          Sil            B/W

[Hollywood - Studio Heads & Actors]                              

Hal Roach & Griffith talking (MOS) with chorus girls legs behind.  Ext. of Blackton at editing table looking at film with magnifying glass.  Shows kid’s zoetrope, spins it.  Goldwyn & Roosevelt standing by set.  Interior w/de Mille riding camera crane & gesturing. de Mille & Ms Rossen out of studio.  Gate of de Mille closed by security guard. With old Pathe camera & cranking.  Laemmle reading paper. Col. Seely with trained dogs.  Lee DeForest at bench manufacturing radio tube.  Jack Warner at desk with trophies behind; talks on phone.  Clara Kimball Young sits down at patio table & writes notes.

220264                             00:44:09                               1943          Sil            B/W          

[Walt Disney Animation Studios]

Ext. outside of gate as people come and go.  Military men & women.  MCU of sign.  Guard with Coast Guard Patrol on sleeve.  Animation dept. window & signs.  People in and out.  Arts working in Ink & Paint Dept.  Women inking & drawing plane.  Man at board flipping cels.  Models.  Plane diving.  Large multi-plane camera with operators at camera.  Loading cels & shooting them.  Disney explaining drawings to Naval Officers.  Artists listen & explain about them.

 

220268                             20:50:56 - 20:51:54           1959          Sd             B/W          

DeMille Obit

DeMille down steps and welcomed to Egypt.  Sitting in chair looking at script & waving fan.  Looking thru binoculars.  With loudspeaker.  Egypt set.  Firing pistol from directors chair as Arabs run.

 

220267                             14:10:12 - 14:11:30           1959          Sd             B/W          

News In Brief - (31st Annual Oscars)
Exterior of Pantages theater w/ marquee.  Spotlights.  Stars arriving.  Ingrid Bergman, fans against police.  Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis arrive.  Interior pans over audience.  Cagney announces Hayward winning for I Want To Live.  John Wayne watches Irene Dunne announcement for David Niven as Best Actor. Oscars

 

220261                             22:08:28 - 22:14:48           1947 c       Sd             B/W          

[Actors Dedicate Motion Picture Country Hospital]

Claude Jarman Jr & Greer Garson pose with patient outside home.  Ronald Reagan as President of Screen Actors Guild reading statment to CBS & other mics. intros Bowran, Mayor of L.A., Jean Herschel, Dinah Shore, Robert. Young.  Shirley Temple reading statement re dedication of Motion Picture Country Hospital in Calabasas in San Fernando Valley.  Jean Herschel (Dr. Christian) introduced and reads from statement tells about portion of salary going to this.  Shirley Temple introduced & gives statement.  Robert Young introduced as radio actor.  Mayor of Hollywood introduced.

 

220261                             22:00:08 - 22:08:20           1947          Sil            B/W          

[Oscar Awards - 1947]
Shirley Temple and John Agar (then her husband) pose for cameras, good shots of press photographers.  Sidney Greenstreet flanked by two women.  Elizabeth Taylor & ? Nicky Hilton.  Red Skelton & wife.   Claude Jarman Jr  and ?  Eric Johnston.  Two others.  Sonny Tufts.  Greer Garson & Ernst Lubitsch.  Others.  Robert Montgomery.  Charles Coburn.  Margaret O’Brien &  Dorothy Lamour.  Couples arriving.  Couple on sound stage with newsreel cameramen recording.  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. giving Oscar(s) to ??.   Jack Benny giving Oscar to Ernst Lubitsch.   Harold Russell of Best Year of Our Lives getting Oscar from Shirley Temple.  Claude Jarman Jr getting Oscar from Shirley Temple.  William Wyler getting Oscar from ??.   Eric Johnston giving Oscar to Samuel Goldwyn.  Goldwyn getting special award(?) from ??.  Goldwyn, Russell & Wyler holding Oscars. Russell with Oscars and ??.   Lionel Barrymore in wheelchair giving Oscar to Anne Baxter.  Ray Milland giving Oscar to Olivia de Havilland.  CUs de Havilland.

 

200491                             01:06:16 - 01:21:12                              Sil            B/W          

Gaumont Graphic Los Angeles, CA  Film Stars in New Combination
Pickford, Fairbanks, Chaplin & Griffith: Wm McAdoo to manage their business affairs.  Signing, outside set.  George Melford’s Co producing “The Sheik”.  Camping out.  Agnes Ayres making up.  Rudolph Valentino in costume.  LS of Horses riding across desert; two camera cranking.  Valentino on horse with woman.  Francis X Bushman & Wife Beverley Bayne on Boardwalk at Atlantic City.  Their baby Richard playing in Sand.  Francis wrestling on sand.
Dog Show of Movie Stars Dogs: Maurice Tourneur with Belgian Police Dogs; Alice Lake & Ruth Roland; Lottie Pickford & Jack Pickford:
Harry Beaumont & Camerman on Set. Tom Moore shooting outside glass Studio:
Snow & Hollywood Starlets (Carol Curtiss &??) in bathing suits exercising:
Bessie Love & Charlie Murray putting on Make-Up. Tom Mix teaching Will Rogers to do rope trick.
Foolish Wives - Miss Dupont & Eric Von Stroheim on set; making up; Maid brings dog in; puts on make up. ‘Monte Carlo’ set.  Hope Hampton:
Pauline Frederick’s ranch; Snowy Baker; Sessue Hayakawa; Tsuri Aoki. Julian Eltinge & Marion Davies; potato peeling race.  Eat at picnic table:

200195                             05:16:20 - 05:27:18           1943          Sil            B/W

Disney Studios                  

Ext. outside of gate as people come and go.  Military men & women.  MCU of sign.  Guard with Coast Guard Patrol on sleeve.  Animation dept. window & signs.  People in and out.  Arts working in Ink & Paint Dept.  Women inking & drawing plane.  Man at board flipping cells.  Models.  Plane diving.  Large multi-plane camera with operators at camera.  Loading cels & shooting them.  Disney explaining drawings to Naval Officers.  Artists listen & explain about them.

200214 + 200213          02:00:00 - 02:07:57           1937          Sil            B/W          

Hollywood: stars arrive by small plane; cars along street  driven by stars - Dick Powell signing autographs outside Cecil B de Mille Productions at Paramount Studios.
02:03:41 Evangelist meeting - Aimee Semple McPherson.
02:05:54 Sign - personal guides to Movie Stars homes.  Building Bermans.  CU Woman Movie Star - back to Evangelist meeting - people dancing in trance like state.

 

220313                             02:19:03 - 02:22:38           1940s        Sd             B/W          

Ginnie Simms & Soldier at NBC Studio w/ Audience
GI timer at stand in control booth.  On stage GI & Ginnie Simms before all white audience & at NBC mic.  GI pretends he's talking to his wife, asking for more candy & permission to go to party w/ Simms.  Audience laughs.  Multiple takes.  MCU of each. CU of soldiers laughing.

 

220313                             02:22:40 - 02:27:28           1940s        Sd             B/W          

WWII - Homefront - CBS Playhouse Radio Broadcast
Black quartet, The Charioteers, singing 'Golden Slippers' before CBS mic, small orchestra behind. 02:25:12 Fred McMurray & Rita Hayworth at one mic; Ginnie Simms, Don Wilson & Lou Holtz at another.  Applause at end of song.  MCU of Quartet singing again.  01:26:15 McMurray & Hayworth in MCU applaud.  01:27:20  Simms, Wilson & Holtz in MCU.  Applaud.  Audience applauding (sd) with both civilians & military.  Control booth w/both civilians & military.

 

220313                             02:49:47 - 02:52:09           1940s        Sd             B/W          

WWII - Homefront - Entertainment, Joe Louis - Al Jolson
7 Black soldiers (incl. Joe Louis) outside of Warner Brothers sound stage; stop talking & salute passing officer.  02:50:13 CU of Joe Louis.  02:50:29 Sd. of Al Jolson singing 'When You are Far From Home...Mammy...'.

 

220313                             02:52:13 - 02:54:48           1940s        Sil            B/W          

WWII - Homefront - Entertainer, Loretta Young, Military Hospital
Ext. of military hospital.  Loretta Young escorted in; other soldiers walking past.  Int. Loretta Young sitting between beds talking w/ soldiers, passes ash tray.  Eats life saver & gives to guy smoking.  CU of her & him.  She goes to different bed & talks with soldier.

 

220313                             02:54:49 - 02:57:47           1940s        Sil            B/W          

WWII - Homefront - Entertainers
Ciro's sign in neon, not lit, lit.  Interior w/ Anne Shirley, Joan Davis and others with officers.  Dancing crowded around tables.  Shirley in CU.  02:56:00 Presentation of bombardier’s wings to Anne Shirley. MOS.  Edgar Bergen & 2 soldiers at table.  Doing hand puppet tricks.

 

                                          

220516                             09:24:44 - 09:25:35           1964          Sd             B/W          

Universal City
Signs Universal City, pan to entrance studios.
Executive George J. Jubler Jr. ?? with cast Doug McClure and Marylin Maxwell around turbine engine car for promotion of auto racing drama.  Open car hood to show turbine.  JamesTeron?? lead actor.  Photographers. Cast drives off in car.

 

220533                             00:52:05 - 01:03:54           1945          Sil            B/W          

Movieland Magic
Publicity stills of female Hollwywood film stars dropping to surfac.
00:54:10 Hollywood starlets walking towards trucking camera in garden setting - multiple takes four girls walking and smiling.  00:55:55 Hollywood Wonderland - Architectural drawings / blueprints, Hollywood stars publicity stills, music scores, fashion designs  falling onto surface - multiple takes.  00:58:40 CU legs of chorus girls rehearsing dance routine.  Pull back to show girls - girls dancing with trays.
01:00:12 Orchestra playing in front of film which shows couple in canoe.  01:00:55 Orchestra playing in front of blank screen - interior sound mixing box. Orchestra playing in front of cinema screen - projected film shows men on horseback and couple in Indian canoe.

 

220523                             19:35:55 - 19:37:13           1965          Sd             B/W          

Meg Visits Studio - Princess Sees How Movies are Made

Princess Margaret and Earl of Snowden welcomed to Universal City by Jules Klein.  Hollywood stars meet couple including Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee, Lana Turner and Robert Eaton, Maurice Chevalier.  Couple make studio tour on movie lot.  Princess sitting with Alfred Hitchcock.  Royal couple on studio lot with fake snow.  On set Beau Geste.  Stunt show.

 

220539                             12:28:18 - 12:30:35           1961          Sd             B/W          

Oscars - Spartacus Takes Four Awards
33rd Annual Academy Awards. Arrivals - Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, Jean Simmons. Eva Marie Saint reads winner  for best supporting actor - Peter Ustinov  in Spartacus. Huw Griffith and presentation for  best supporting actress - Shirley Jones. Greer Garcon announces best actor - Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry. Yul Bryner announces best actress - Elizabeth Taylor. Audrey Hepburn announces best picture - The Apartment, accepted by producer Billy Wilder.

                                          

220564                             11:42:38 - 11:44:58           1946          Sd             B/W          

[Hollywood Strike - 1946 ca]
Man stands on lawn in front of bungalow that had been bombed & talks to camera.  Pickets outside studio.  Men arrested.

220564                             11:48:30 - 11:52:00           1946          Sil            B/W          

[Hollywood Strike - 1946 ca]
People outside bombed houses; pickets.  Cleaning up debris; Policemen arresting women & men.  Man in front of bungalow.

 

220581                             07:00:10 - 07:11:05           1949          Sd             Col 

Los Angeles - City of Destiny – Part One
Car pov through desert towards mountain ranges. Scenics - palms - orchards, vineyards.  Spanish style buildings.  Beaches - housing.  Los Angeles stockshots - street scenes - buildings.  Roads and traffic.  LA civic centre - City Hall - Hall of justice - Federal building - County General Hospital.

Hotels and apartments.  Modern architecture.  Public library.  Old town - street market - local working with wrought iron.  Hispanic man playing harp.  Girl doing Spanish dancing - flamenco. Spanish fiesta - xylophone and guitars provide music.  07:05:46 Old Plaza Church - fountains - High Sierra mountains - aqueduct system - waterways and canals. Pipeline through desert - reservoirs.
07:07:16 Suburban housing and gardens - mansions. More suburbs and flowers.  Eucalyptus tree - bougainvillaea - jacaranda tree – poinsettias.  07:08:58 AVs highways and road network around Los Angeles - traffic, cars.  Wilshire boulevard - travelling shot POV.  UCLA - students on campus.  University of Southern California.

 

220581                             07:11:06 - 07:21:59           1949          Sd             Col 

Los Angeles - City of Destiny - Part Two
American football match between UCLA and USC - crowds in stadium - opening ceremony.
07:11:51 Hollywood - pan across city.  Top shot cross roads at Hollywood and Vine - traffic.  Sunset and Vine - NBC studios.  Grauman’s Chinese Theater.  Paving stones with hand prints - walk of fame.  AVs 20th Century Fox studios.
07:13:34 RKO studios and behind scenes filming of Baltimore Escapade.  Director Richard Wallace signals for take - actors waiting - scene being filmed - camera on tracks filming Shirley Temple.  Producer Richard Berger and Shirley Temple discuss next scene.  Sound man on lot.  Camera crane. Steam train into shot.  Star Robert Young into shot.  Shirley Temple having make-up applied.  Various shots movie being shot.  07:16:18 Night shots Hollywood - Paramount movie theatre.  Lobby of cinema during premiere.  Santa  Claus Lane.  Sunrise over Hollywood bowl - girls blowing trumpets - children’s choir at Hollywood bowl for Easter thanksgiving.  07:17:33 AVs San Fernando Valley - studios, golf courses, houses.  07:18:08 Hydro electric power - Hoover dam - electricity pylons.  Industry and factories in LA.  Car production - steel foundry - lathe cutting steel.  AVs and ground shots oil derricks.  Aircraft and tarmac. Workers leaving factories.  07:20:09 AVs LA harbour - port areas.  Ships in dock.  AV L.A. yacht harbour - shots from boat of palatial launch, smaller boats and industrial tankers.  Docks - unloading and loading freight.  Ocean liner pulling out from dock.

 

220581                             07:22:00 - 07:31:00           1949          Sd             Col 

Los Angeles - City of Destiny - Part Three
Pan over car park for farmers market. Food and produce on sale.  Visitors at tables on outdoor patios.  Los Angeles park - boating.  Pershing Square - crowds watching soap box orators.  Griffith Park - families having picnics and relaxing on grass.  Children playing.  Outdoor festival, children’s pageant.  07:24:08 AV Griffith Observatory and planetarium.  07:24:22 Crowds at horse racing track.  Race. Hollywood park - horse racing.  Baseball - neighbourhood teams playing. People playing golf - crowds watching golf.  Tennis clubs - polo played. Green bowls. Swimming pools - private and public.  Diving. Divers in slow motion. Swimming race.  07:28:03 Good shots Traffic along road by beach. Beach scenes - surf - water sports - sun bathing. Muscle beach (Venice Beach) Muscle men and women display - lifting weights.  Volleyball on beach. Yachting and dinghy boats.  POV driver down palm tree lined road.  City shots.

 

220584                             09:12:44 - 09:13:55           1939          Sil            B/W          

Movie Stuntsters Risk Their Necks at Benefit Show
Motion picture stunt men stage a busman’s holiday benefit for injured brethren, stunt man thrown from moving car - stunt man leaps from motorcycle into moving car.  Stunts on horseback - slow-motion as cowboy makes horse fall.

 

220585                             11:00:10 - 11:09:41           1937          Sil            B/W          

Hollywood Street Scenes
Exterior  building with sign Hollywood Mortuary.  Bus / coach with banner on side saying Jane Withers fans.  Pendulum on clock of Mortuary Building swinging, shop window of the Homedrug Co. - cosmetics in window.  Large white building - architecture - long shots other buildings.  Hamburger  Kiosk Wimpy’s  with sign of cartoon character  Wimpey from Popeye outside.  11:01:56 Santa Fe train pulling in.  Art Deco strange shaped building ?  Street scene, woman in very short skirt or skirted swimsuit walking dog.  11:02:21 Radio show being recorded.  11:03:27 Beauty parlour - woman having face made up - cosmetics / lipstick.  Woman having hair done, male hairdresser.  11:04:34 Show at Hollywood Bowl - night shots.  11:05:14 Wigmakers - girls making wigs.  Hands combing out wig for Alice Faye.  Another wig for Gracie Allen being set.  Make-up artist applying lipstick.  11:07:33 Night shots Hollywood Bowl (not useable).  11:08:40 Walter Winchell at NBC microphone.

 

220585                             11:09:54 - 11:17:52           1937          Sil            B/W          

Hollywood Street Scenes
Exterior Vendome Fine Foods store / shop, crowds outside getting autograph from unid. man.  Cars pass.  Modern glass building Sunset Boulevard.  Grauman’s Chinese Theatre exteriors - CU pavement / sidewalk - Jean Harlow handprints.  11:11:19 Cars pull into Nutburgers.  Exterior Al Levy’s Tavern.  11:11:58 Night shots - Neon lights - Pantages theatre.  11:12:20  Motion picture / film studio ? Interiors wardrobe ? room with men pressing ?   Studios - woman (Garbo ?) gets into chauffeur-driven limousine.  Car drives off.  11:14:12 Sign Eddie Schmidt - board with call times for many stars.  Exterior Universal Cafe - Meet and Eat with the Stars.  Two young women at table - milkshakes and hamburger.  11:15:50 Night shots show at Hollywood Bowl - shots of audience - men smoking pipes - first may be Wallace Beery, second is Edward G Robinson at 11:17:09.  Exterior Vendome food store - autograph hunters.

 

220585                             11:18:04 - 11:23:57           1937          Sil            B/W          

Hollywood - Stars Tennis Match - Ellsworth Vines Tennis
Swimming pool - Charlie Chaplin and others in tennis clothes Groucho Marx to left of frame - gags for camera.  Press with cameras. Groucho and Chaplin sitting on court.  Groucho fools around with sleeping bag on court.  11:19:29 Paulette Goddard with two men, all with home movie cameras. Chaplin plays doubles tennis ( left handed ) - knocking up with partner Fred Perry ? Shots of opposition playing, Groucho Marx and unid. man.  11:20:35 Groucho serves with row of Movie cameras behind.  11:21:13 Paulette Goddard removes sunglasses seated in audience.  Others in audience, Douglas Fairbanks, Ronald Coleman at 12: 21:26.  Possibly Miriam Hopkins at 11:21:36 with two men.  11:21:54 Paulette Goddard on left with possibly Bette Davis ??  11:.22:04 Harpo Marx mugging.  Match in progress - Harpo smiles for cameras.  Groups milling about as leave include Miriam Hopkins ? Douglas Fairbanks, Paulette Goddard and possibly Bette Davis.  Ronald Coleman in hat and sunglasses.  Other stars and starlets.  Exteriors bBeauty parlour advertising various treatments including Colonics.  Hollywood Planetarium on top of hill with domed roof.

 

220585                             11:24:12 - 11:31:52           1937          Sil            B/W          

Hollywood - Radio Show
NBC Radio Studio two men sitting at microphones.  Office with man on telephone and at typewriter.  11:26:02 Exterior Lonesome Club - for lonely folks 18-80. Girls on assembly line packing tins.  11:27:29 Interior face powder factory ?  men at machines.  11:28:40 Beauty  parlour, woman having make-up applied - Eyebrows and mascara. Male make up artist.
Man at desk to beaty product samples.  Interior store selling beauty products.  11:30:28 Exterior Max Factor or just Factor building.  Woman having lipstick applied.  Hairdressing.

 

220585                             11:32:03 - 11:33:38           1937          Sil            B/W          

Hollywood - Disney Studios
Women’s wardrobe department - women at sewing machines.  Shots unidentified people.  Carpentry shop, men using circular saws.  Design department.  Meeting ? - Props department – guns. 11:32:47 Group of VIPs in courtyard - walking in garden.  11.33:07 Two men at piano. Shirley Temple with woman in garden.  Couple sitting in chairs - Robert Taylor and possibly Loretta Young.

 

220585                             11:33:52 - 11:37:45           1937          Sd             B/W          

Hollywood - Disney Studios
Hollywood at night - top shot showing lights used as backdrop for singer Nino Martini.  Sings romantic ballad.  11:36:22 Shots of singer but with camera crews in vision.

 

220585                             11:46:00 - 11:53:38           1939          Sil            B/W          

Movies March On
Office - George J Schaefber and star Raymond Massey discuss script.
11:48:01 Two men discussing ? Will Hays and possibly Kenneth Clark.  11:49:31 ? looking through book in front of bookcase.  11:51:26  ? looking at plans ? Movie set showing lighting etc.  Three men come out of door on set - stand discussing plan?  11:52:47 Ginger Rogers ? with two men sitting on set talking. (Cards say David Selznick, Putunes and Berman - unable to identify who’s who).

 

220585                             11:53:48 - 12:01:19           1939          Sil            B/W          

Movies March On - Hollywood Streets
Studio lot - buildings under construction - gate house with sign Walt Disney Prod.  Exterior The Brown Derby cars and traffic past.  11:54:36 Exterior NBC studios with cars. Exterior Trocadero. Exterior Earl Carroll Theatre - night shots with neon lights.  11:56:25 Exterior Grauman’s Chinese Theatre - close shots pavement outside Grauman’s with hand prints - various shots showing architecture.  11:58:10 Lee De Forest Laboratories - Top shot Hollywood studios and housing - Hollywood Boulevard - exterior Hollywood Roosevelt.  Top shots over city.  12:00:07 Exterior CBS Studios - RKO Studios - Paramount Pictures - Top shots city as night falls.

 

220603                             11:01:29 - 11:03:08           1964          Sd             B/W          

The Academy Awards
Cars arriving at theatre for 36th Oscars.  Interior  theatre - audience.  Gregory Peck names best actress Patricia Neale - accepted by Annabella ?.  Frank Sinatra announces best picture “Tom Jones” -  David Pr ? accepts for Tony Richardson.  Anne Bancroft names best actor  Sidney Poitier  - first Black to win an Oscar.  Poitier makes acceptance speech.

 

220603                             11:10:51 - 11:12:07           1965          Sd             B/W          

Academy Awards - Hollywood’s Night of Glamour
Crowds outside theatre waiting for stars to arrive for 37th Oscars.  Interior theatre - audience. Audrey Hepburn announces best actor - Rex Harrison for My Fair lady.  Sidney Poitier names best actress - Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins.  Julie Andrews makes acceptance speech.

 

220603                             11:21:09 - 11:24:49           1941          Sil            B/W          

Academy Awards Banquet  (Oscars )
Slow panning shot around banquet tables showing many film / movie stars including Bob Hope, Alfred Hitchcock, Ronald Reagan.  Same shot but with audience / people at tables clapping - very glamorous evening wear dinner.
11:24:11 MC with Bob Hope ?

 

LN 501-154                     02:00:09 - 02:05:56           1940s        Sd             B/W          

[Hollywood - Radio Networks - Jubilee Broadcast]
Ext. of NBC studios with pedestrians, military, traffic.   CBS ext (brief) Control booth & Bubbles Whitman announcing the Jubilee Radio Show as military men & woman watch & direct from booth.  Black military audience laughing & applauding.  Whitman w/ Rochester & Louis Armstrong reading script at NBC mic re KP.

 

LN 501-154                     02:05:58 - 02:08:41           1940s        Sd             B/W          

[Hollywood - Radio Networks - Command Performance Radio Broadcast]
Wilson & Carol Landis at CBS mic in front of Command Performance poster on stage.  He announces & she sighs.  CUs.  Multiple takes.  MCU Captain & soldier timing show.  CU sign.

 

220610                             08:37:30 - 08:43:46           1941          Sd             B/W          

Academy Awards  / Oscars
Several takes of Master of Ceremonies standing in front of curtain doing pieces to camera - presents President Roosevelt (FDR) (not seen)  - thanks the President.  This is being recorded before the event.
08:38:52 Joan Fontaine presenting plaque to best supporting actress Jane Darwell for Grapes of Wrath.  Joan Fontaine presents Oscar to Ginger Rogers (best actress).  Second take.  08:41:11 General Malvern? Presents Oscar to Colonel Levernson ? for achievements over the past nine years.  David Selznick presented with award for Rebecca.  Ginger Rogers standing with mother - thank you speech.  Bob Hope gets special award – gags as lines fluffed.  Bob Hope and Ginger Rogers stand together.

 

220784                             22:32:18 - 22:35:56           1937          Sil            B/W          

[Hollywood - Movie Stars]
People off American Airlines Flagship Illinois.  Movie Stars. Cord auto outside wealthy mansion.  Other fancy car along side & people talk.  William Powell signing autographs for kids.  On De Mille Productions lot.

                                          

220784                             22:36:00- 22:40:13            1937          Sil            B/W          

[Aimee Semple McPherson & Pentacostal]
Choir singing in church.  Man playing xylophone & 3 women singing at mic.  Tambourines & man preaching & jumping and waving.  Women with hands up in air praying and swaying.  Old man & others praying.  Women singing & clapping.  Blind woman.  Signs re movie star guides.  Modern (art deco) architecture & Dancing in church.  Woman possessed.

 

220784                             22:40:24 -22:48:23            1937          Sil            B/W          

[Aimee Semple McPherson & Pentacostal] Evangelists - Religion
Ext. Aimee Semple McPherson Temple.  Woman laying on floor praying.  Others standing and praying and singing and clapping. Man dancing. 
22:42:25 Baseball players.  One with cigarette in mouth.  Pitcher warming up & pitching.  Spectators in dark glasses.  Catcher.  Joe E. Brown in baseball uniform.  Gags. 
22:44:30 Signs relating to Hollywood.  Tennis club on rooftop.  Colonic Therapy etc.; Fortune Teller Signs; Vernacular architecture; Modern Architecture (art deco).

 

220666                             17:08:56-17:19:40             1970s        Sil            Col 

Stock Footage - Los Angeles - Hollywood - California
AV from helicopter flying round skyscrapers.  Bank of America building.  AV highways - traffic - roads.  17:11:42 Pan up skyscrapers.  Modern architecture.  17:12:34 Sunset over sea - waves lapping on sandy beach (very red).  17:15:36 Mark Taper Forum at the Los Angeles Music Centre - good architecture shots.  Sign in marble on edge of pool re Music Center.  17:17:30 Hollywood Sign in hills - various shots - zooms.  17:18:37 POV travelling in car down palm tree lined drive.  Wealthy houses - mansions.

 

220621                             21:23:26 - 21:24:31           1943          Sil            B/W          

Rudy Vallee's (?) home.  Shows group of three Naval officers talking on balcony overlooking Hollywood?  CU actor Charles Lane ?

 

220621                             21:24:34 - 21:29:38           1943          Sd             B/W          

Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone - From Showbusiness at War.
Jack and Mary on stage presumably performing for Navy standing in front of NBC microphone - comedy routine Mary makes joke about Jack's time in the navy - says he went up the crow’s nest looking for eggs.  - repeated  many times different angles.

 

220469                             03:39:02 - 03:39:55           1945          Sd             B/W          

Hollywood Spotlight - Bob Hope Presents special Awards for Film Achievements
Look Magazine Awards.  Bob Hope awards  producer Daryl Zanuck for movie Wilson - Leon Shamroy for photography on Wilson - Walt Disney for producing Special training films for the Armed Forces.

 

220469                             04:29:51 - 04:31:45           1945          Sd             B/W          

Personalities - Eric Johnston Takes Film Industry Post
Johnston  becomes head of Motion Pictures Producers and Distributors Association of America (MPAA).  Johnston speech re formation of motion picture Institute; research program; promoting international interchange of movies; wider use of film as educational tool.

 

220472                             09:39:41 - 09:40:30           1945          Sd             B/W          

Galaxy Of Stars Attends World Movie Premiere
Exterior Fox Galaxy Circle.  Cinema marquee w/ film title “Leave Her To Heaven” and names of stars.   Vivien Blaine and Mannie Frank? Barbara Wyning? and William ? Producer Daryl Zanuck and wife.   Film director John M. Stahl with wife.   Roddie McDowell and Jane Powell.  Tyrone Power and wife French actress Annabella.  June Haver and Victor Mature.   Gene Crain and Paul Brooks.  Cornell Wilde with wife.  Gene Tierney.

 

220476                             18:10:30 - 18:11:06           1945          Sd             B/W          

Motion Picture Academy Awards “Oscars” to Outstanding Stars
Gary Cooper presents award to Bing Crosby.  Jennifer Jones gives award to Ingrid Bergman. Cameraman Leon Shamroy, producer Daryl Zanuck and screenwriter Lamar ?? Tolberg prize to Daryl Zanuck.

 

220481                             04:22:38 - 04:23:07           1946          Sd             B/W

Gene Tierney’s Prints Planted In Cement at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre
Gene Tierney imprints hands and feet with Sid Grauman.

 

220747                             08:43:49 - 08:44:58           1959          Sd             B/W          

News In Brief - (31st Annual Oscars)
Exterior of Pantages theatre w/ marquee.  Spotlights.  Stars arriving.  Ingrid Bergman, fans against police.   Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis arrive.  Interior pans over audience.  James Cagney announces Susan Hayward winning for I Want To Live.   John Wayne watches Irene Dunne announcement for David Niven as Best Actor.

 

220747                             09:00:26 - 09:01:40           1962          Sd             B/W          

Crowds outside Santa Monica Civic Auditorium - hoarding re 34th Annual Academy Awards.
Interiors - Rock Hudson announces best supporting actress Rita Merino, accepts award.  Joan Crawford announces best actor - Maximilian Schell -  gets statue.  Burt Lancaster announces best actress, Sophia Loren - Greer Garson accepts Oscar in Loren’s absence.  Best picture announced by Fred Astaire - West Side Story.  Robert Wise receives award.

 

220747                             09:04:31 - 09:05:47           1954          Sd             B/W          

Blood Bank - Hollywood Responds to Plea for Donors
Col. James Edwards helped up from bed after giving blood in drive at Universal Studios.  Nurse helps with jacket.  Col James to camera re his time in Korea and makes appeal for donors.  V/O shots blood donors, stars and studio workers registering and at tables after donating.  Blood put into crates.

 

LN 501-206                     04:26:55 - 04:36:00           1957          Sil            B/W          

Night Premiere of My Man Godfrey
Tracking shot down red carpet along line waiting to greet stars.  Crowd waves to camera.  Crowds in stands waiting for movie actors.  Graumans Chinese Theater with My Man Godfrey in lights.  Crowd reactions, waving and smiling.  Wide shot cinema and more crowd waving etc.  04:28:10 Movie stars arriving including June Allyson.  Three young women starlets arrive with man in evening dress - pull out board My Man Godfrey.  Many unid stars arrive. Dick Powell.  Various shots stars brought to microphone after they leave theatre (mos).  04:34:29 Three female stars of film pose - June Allyson, Eva Gabor and Martha Hyer.   Exterior theatre.  June Allyson signs autographs.

 

LN 501-269                     16:19:46 - 16:25:54           1950s        Sil            B/W          

[Royalty visits Motion Picture Studio - Queen Juliana?]
Unid European royalty at long banquet table - VIPs walk past and shake her hand.  Later on sitting down at banquet dining.  Movie stars present.  Royalty attends filming of movie with actors in regal costumes.  Royalty stands on podium with VIP

 

 

Movie Industry

 

220293                             13:10:14 - 13:10:47           1961          Sd             B/W          

News in Brief: San Diego Labour Council honours Kirk Douglas for using all American labour in his movie Spartacus.  Douglas at celebration lunch - speech (not heard) accepts plaque.

 

220290                             06:16:22 - 06:17:08           1956          Sd             B/W          

Saranac Lake  NY - TB hospital which is funded by Movie industry.  Exterior Will Rogers Memorial Hospital.  Interior hospital, girl in bed. Richard F. Walsh visits patient.  Laboratory - man having X-Ray.  Directors meeting addressed by Robert J. O’Donnell (not heard) Statue Will Rogers - exterior hospital.

 

220316                             20:00:00 - 20:01:40           1951          Sil            B/W          

Movie Marquee:  Gone With The Wind; The French Line - Kill Movie Tax
Day and night shots of 42nd Street & Times Square.  Movie Theaters against movie tax.  Passers by sign petition.

 

220316                             20:01:57 - 20:03:47           1953          Sd             B/W          

Thunder Bay Ushers in Era of Wide Screen Movies
Times Square exterior at night for premiere.  Marquee for Loew's State shown.  Interior of cinema showing size of screen.  Premiere is in daytime with many people arriving from limousines. Announcer with mic.  Arrivals including Margaret Truman.  Boris Karloff and wife - Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, Xavier Cougat and Abbie Laine, Jimmy (James) Stewart and wife.  Crowds and excitement.

 

220457 & 200531          03:59:56 - 04:11:04           1930s        Sil            B/W          

Movies and Audiences
Five people in dark movie theatre smoking, watching and taking notes.  Film screened shown: 1920s, ball with elegant women and men.  Two of the people in office discuss and take notes, mark reels.  Door sign  “Miss Barry”, “Mr Abbott”.  Mickey Mouse cartoon on screen.  Mickey driving boat, goat eating sheet music then singing.  The Great Train Robbery. Gangster in train station, fight on train.  The Mary Irwin - John C. Rice Kiss.  Audience watching, MCU old lady.  Military parade on film.

 

220516                             09:04:54 - 09:05:38           1963          Sd             B/W          

Movie Awards - Theatre Owners Honor Cary grant and Angie Dickinson.
Theatre owners convention in NY.  Cary Grant as star of the year.  Tony Randall. Milton rackmil, Universal Pictures’ head.  Angie Dickinson named most exciting new star.  Photographers.  Cary Grant poses with award with John Steinberg?, retiring theatre owners president. John Roland? poses with Angie Dickinson and award.  Angie Dickinson and Cary Grant pose together.

220516                             09:30:46 - 09:31:43         &n