LET S GO TO THE MOVIES 1949 AMPAS DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION OF HOLLYWOOD FEATURE FILMS XD45354

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films Visit Visit our website One of a series of short subjects made in 1949 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Let s Go to the Movies provides a brisk, Hollywoodcentric gloss of early narrative film history, coupled with brief glimpses behind the scenes of major studio productions. A curtain opens on an Academy Awards Ceremony with an Oscar statuette on the stage (0:10). Title: Members of the Motion Picture Industry present Lets Go to the Movies (0:13). A movie studio backlot with false tenement building fronts, actors in costumes, a film crew and stage sets (0:23). An Edison Kinetoscope. An early handcranked motorcar. Crossfade to automobiles of the 1910s, 1920s (0:41). Silent film clips: Mary Pickford In the Hills of Old Kentucky (1:00). A sign advertises Raff Gammens Entertainment Arcade. POV looking into a penny arcade Kinetoscope. Clip: Charlie Ch