MGM Studio Tour
MGM Studio Tour
Excellent silent promotional film showing the MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or M-G-M) motion picture studio system circa 1925.
MGM Studio Tour
Title 1925 Tour
MGM Studio Tour
Card: "Let us go behind the motion picture screen, into the shadow land of make believe, to meet the men and women who create our photoplays - to follow them in their work..." "Culver City, California - The Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, a city within itself, stretching over vast acres of stages and departmental..." Great panning high angle MGM Studios office buildings and soundstages. The American flag flying proudly from office building below MGM sign.
MGM Studio Tour
Card: "The studio embraces an area of 43 acres, and its 45 buildings, including 14 big stages..." Great panning high angle of motion picture soundstage studios.
MGM Studio Tour
It would take a One Eyed Connelly to crash this gate Main gate and security at MGM. Unless these reception clerks had been tipped off to Okay your visit. Five Caucasian male MGM reception clerks posing for camera.
MGM Studio Tour
A direct wire keeps MGM in touch with New York. Older Caucasian man sitting at desk, using telegraph machine, typing message.
MGM Studio Tour
The main building, stately and imposing, fronts on the boulevard. POV traveling shot along Washington Street, starting with MGM main building with colonnades and the Ford Model T cars. Through gate and onto studio lot, then through back lots and past soundstages.
MGM Studio Tour
Stage No. 14 is rapidly nearing completion. Construction of Stage 14. Building frame being raised into position. Caucasian male construction workers hammering floor boards.