LETS 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, Hollywood-centric 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 Let’s 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 hand-cranked motorcar. Crossfade to automobiles of the 1910’s, 1920’s (0:41). Silent film clips: Mary Pickford “In the Hills of Old Kentucky” (1:00). A sign advertises “Raff & Gammen’s Entertainment Arcade.” POV looking into a penny arcade Kinetoscope. Clip: Charlie Ch