Let's Go To The Movies
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Let's Go To The Movies is a short film from 1948 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
An overall picture of the background, development and technical advances made by the motion picture industry through the years. Includes Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Al Jolson, John Barrymore and others.
| Let's Go To The Movies | |
|---|---|
| Produced by | RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. |
Production companies | RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. |
Release date | 1948 |
Running time | 10:00 |
| Language | English |
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Shot List
23:32:15:01 Movie set during shoot for Wild West movie set.
23:32:32:15 VS man looks down into Kinetoscope. Pan down from man looking into viewfinder into Kinetoscope gears.
23:32:41:04 Man winds old-fashioned car for woman.
23:33:31:01 Turn of the century audience in movie theatre (nickelodeon); projection reads Ladies Please Remove Your Hats. Strange movie projected on screen shows man swatting two heads off table then removing a third head from table.
23:34:01:06 President Roosevelt Advocates Big Stick Policy ; audience watches Pres. Roosevelt on screen.
23:34:17:25 Frequency analyzer shows sine wave on monitor.
23:34:28:26 Singer Al Jolson performing in blackface in 1927.
23:35:04:08 John Barrymore in 1929.
23:35:53:14 VS movie theaters: Campus theater advertising Robinson Bogart Bacall, News & Cartoon, Key Largo, Walt Disney s Melody Time Cartoon ; Esquire theater Beatrice Lillie On Approval also Jeannie ; Hawaii Music Hall; billboard in Spanish Samuel Goldwyn presenta El Lechero ; Gaumont; Moulin Rouge Cinema; Filma Margina.
23:36:41:06 Three men doing sound effects on strange contraptions.
23:36:43:11 Make-up artist touching up woman s leg with airbrush for advertisement shoot.
23:36:49:02 VS CU hand pulling book of bookshelf.
23:36:54:05 VS film editors cutting and splicing film.
23:37:13:17 CU two hands making adjustments on two knobs (controls).
23:37:15:27 CU low angle of movie camera.
23:37:19:12 Long row of film being processed. Man with camera looks at scrolling film.
23:37:24:09 Man brings dolly of film canisters into busy film editors studio.
23:37:30:08 MS film editor inserts film into projector; CU film scrolling frame for frame of cowboy on bucking horse.
23:37:57:22 Film piling up in trash can.
23:38:50:09 Two enormous tree trunks dragged toward camera leaving large dust trail; man is nearly hit by the trees.
23:39:02:18 VS men pulling lever; men turning on spotlights.
23:39:16:24 VS scientists in lab coats working in laboratory with glasses beakers, flasks, microscopes, Bunsen burners, and other equipment.
23:39:55:13 VS movie theater exteriors: Santa Anita, Gilmore, Monica, Academy.
23:40:08:09 CU Spinning film reels.
23:40:10:15 large room with men monitoring rows and rows of spinning film reels.
23:40:44:03 VS on movie set of western; great shot of crane shot on movie set.