Let's Go to the Movies
Let's Go to the Movies
Bustling soundstage, adult Caucasian females descending and ascending stairs; adult Caucasian male technicians and crew working on and around stage. Man opening cabinet door of Edison Kinetoscope. Sideview close-up of man viewing film through Kinetoscope; tilt down to film passing through gears. Man, wearing duster jacket and cap with driving goggles, turning crank on early automobile, shaking the car; woman sitting in car. Three men, wearing duster coats getting out of early Ford Model T. Man, wearing duster, goggles, releasing brake, turning steering wheel; puff of smoke emanating from underneath car.
Let's Go to the Movies
Excerpt from short film "Old Kentucky" (1909) starring Mary Pickford. Posted sign: "Raff and Gammen's Entertainment Arcade. "
Let's Go to the Movies
Adult Caucasian man, wearing shirt-sleeves, vest, straw boater hat while cranking early projector. Crowd walking outside movie theater. Rear view of audience in movie theater, watching silent trick film. Title card and train robbery excerpt from "The Great Train Robbery" (1903) directed by Edwin S. Porter, produced by The Edison Company. Title card and battlefield excerpt from "The Birth of a Nation" (1915) directed by D.W. Griffith.
Let's Go to the Movies
Newsreel title card: "President [Theodore] Roosevelt Advocates Big Stick Policy." Rear view of audience seated in movie theater, applauding President Roosevelt delivering outdoor speech. Phonograph cylinder in operation. Filament glowing in glass tube. Adult Caucasian man working in laboratory. Early sound wave impulse shown on monitor. 35mm film being pulled through Vitaphone machine. Adult Caucasian male engineers working in sound laboratory; man standing at microphone. Vinyl record spinning on turntable, stylus recording.
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Excerpt from "Richard III" (1929), starring John Barrymore.
Let's Go to the Movies
Day shots. Campus movie theater marquee: "Robinson, Bogart and Bacall in Key Largo, News, Walt Disney and Melody Time Cartoon." Esquire movie theater marquee: "Beatrice Lillie, On Approval, Jeannie." Low angle view of Hawaii Music Hall. Gaumont de Montparnasse movie theater. Posters outside movie theater in Italy: "La pui bella storia d'amore realizzata da Walt Disney: Bambi." Movie theater in China. Cinema Marignan advertising, "Grand Prix International." Crowd standing outside movie theater in Japan. Massive movie artwork outside Cinema Gaumont Marignan in Paris, France, "Nosotros" among the advertised. High angle view of Hollywood street scene, business district. Adult Caucasian men and women walking along sidewalk. American flag flying atop U.S. Post Office in Los Angeles. High angle view of people walking along street inside motion picture studio compound.
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Low angle view of adult Caucasian male carpenter cutting wood plank. Metal being cut on band saw, sparks flying. Clothing being ironed on ironing board. Adult Caucasian male make-up artist applying beard to actor. Men in recording studio making sound effects, recreating thunder storm. Man spraying a young adult Caucasian woman's leg. Furniture stacked in a room. Man finishes painting on woman's hosiery on her thigh. Hand pulling leather-bound books bookshelf. Sewing machine being operated. Film editors working on upright Moviola editing machines in editing department; CU hot glue splicer being used, editing film.
Let's Go to the Movies
Panning high angle view of outdoor studio set. "Stage 10," tilt down to closed and locked door, swinging pendulum warning anyone not to enter. Adult Caucasian male grip operating large klieg light inside studio soundstage. Activity between takes on movie set. Hands turning dials on sound recording machine. 35mm film camera. VS of numerous strands of 35mm film passing through industrial film processing machine. Adult Caucasian man enters editing department with several film cans stacked on a dolly; other men working in the room. Editor looping film through upright Moviola editing machine.
Let's Go to the Movies
Images of adult Caucasian male cowboy riding bucking bronco passing through viewer at a progressively faster rate. 35mm film piling up.
Let's Go to the Movies
Adult male and female workers picking cotton by hand in cotton field. Bales of cotton traveling on hooks, descending conveyor belt. Raw cotton being processed, separated, softened, liquefied, churned, turned into a thin sheet of cellulose. Blocks of silver being placed into mixing vat, then liquefied.
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Slow pan across a banquet table showing place settings, flower centerpiece. Silverware display. Two massive cuts of raw lumber being hoisted via chains in forest; adult Caucasian male lumberjack watches as a massive dust cloud is kicked up. Sacks of plaster. Man working on plaster sculpture. Orchestra on sound set; superimposition of paint pouring from can. Men throwing switches on big fuse boxes. Male grips turning klieg lights above movie set. Trains traveling. Liquid bubbling, boiling in glass beaker.
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Adult Caucasian male scientist conducting experiment in laboratory; liquid in flask. Scientists working in laboratory. Man observing a sample being mixed shaken back and forth using a wheel and piston. VS of scientists working in laboratory: looking through microscopes, mixing batches of liquid. Cars slowing driving down street of a small town; cars parked to the side in parking spaces. Two adult Caucasian men reviewing poster artwork in office. Man drawing, illustrating at easel while woman watches. Man taking seat at desk, looking at ledger. Women sitting at rewind tables, inspecting film; woman winding reel. Label being pasted onto film reel shipping cans. Stacks of film shipping cans in shipping and receiving department.
Let's Go to the Movies
Santa Anita movie theater, marquee advertising Dana Andrews, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero in "Deep Waters," and "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein." Movie theater advertising Brian Aherne & Madelaine Carroll in "My Son, My Son"; George Brent and Basil Rathbone in "International Lady." Signs, main facade of drive-in movie theater showing double bill of "Ruthless" and Abbott and Costello in "The Noose Hangs High." Santa Monica movie theater marquee advertising "Hazard" (Paulette Goddard, MacDonald Carey) and "River Lady." Academy movie theater, advertising Betty Grable, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Cesar Romero, Walter Able in "That Lady in Ermine" & Janet Martin in "King of the Gamblers." Movie marquee advertising "Fighting Father Dunne." Metal reels spinning on upright Moviola editing machine. Adult Caucasian male film technicians working in room with spinning metal reels, upright editing machines. People standing in movie theater lobby, talking. VS of male film distributors, screenwriters, producers, art directors working in offices.
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Adult Caucasian male director sitting in director's chair beside film camera. Male cinematographer manning 35mm film camera; director standing beside him. Viewfinder shot of Cary Grant kissing Ingrid Bergman. Tilt down to male sound technician giving "OK" sign from behind sound monitor on film set. High angle view of male conductor leading orchestra through recorded performance. Male film editor looping 35mm film into upright Moviola editing machine. Film camera on crane driving through outdoor film set of city. Stagecoach driving through city; film camera on crane capturing shot. "The End."