Hollywood - Sound Version (1965)

Hollywood, California, United States of America (USA).
Interior of an aircraft. Stewardess chats to passengers. Nice shots of passengers. Pan American aircraft lands at Los Angeles airport. Various shots of sights of Hollywood. Includes Chinatown, hotels, shopping streets, Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood & Vine sign, sidewalk paved with stars ("The Walk of Fame"?) - Audrey Hepburn's star is seen, autographed slabs of concrete outside Grauman's Chinese Cinema - hand prints and footprints. Names include Jeanette MacDonald, Al Jolson, Joan Crawford, Loretta Young, Colleen Moore and Marilyn Monroe.
L/S of the Hollywood Bowl. Beverly Hills houses of the stars seen from a moving car. Freeways ("they make Britain's M1 look like a lazy country lane").
Marineland - spectators and acts. A dog stands on board a surfboard which is pulled through the water. Performing seals do some tricks. Dolphin scoots out of the water on to the deck for a fish. Hoop is set on fire and dolphin jumps through it.
Warner Brothers lot - filming of The Great Race in progress. Stars in scene are Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood and Jack Lemmon. They are acting out a scene where their car is standing on an ice floe buffeted by the waves. Various shots of the scene which is shot in the studio tank - wave making machines are shown.
At a theme park we see a Wild West Town - "Ghost Town" (Knoll's Berry Farm). "This is Hollywood - just as much as the studios" states the narrator (many of the performers are wannabe actors). Various shots of the town, panning for gold, an old fashioned locomotive and an acted gun fight. The shot man is measured for a coffin.
Note: this print is rather scratched. Mute neg has also been transferred. See record for 311.02.
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[@jl3322]

Those freeways are bumper to bumper today.

[@kennixox262]

Not to mention that almost every home now in Beverly Hills has high hedges and gates to where you can't see the houses and I would imagine all the homes shown have been remodeled extensively or replaced since then. It is so nice when the Brits can come and see how the colonists live here.

[@dariowiter3078]

It's been that way even before the making of this British newsreel.

[@brianobrien7983]

Pan Am was the airline in every other film in the 60’s

[@ShakespeareCafe]

Those passengers are sitting in First Class. The 707 had 3 abreast seating in coach as in the movie Airport starring Burt Lancaster

[@goldenharborstudios7180]

Funny how they thought Thier time was fast paced. Compared to out's, they had it good. (Besides the wars)

[@davehue9517]

At the start of the video, looks nice...It must have been nice to travel by air before flight attendants tossed bags of peanuts at you and sighed and clicked their tongue if you asked for a water or another drink....

[@dariowiter3078]

Knott's Berry Farm is located in Buena Park, California, which is located in Orange County, one of California's 58 total counties that make the state geographically. Buena Park is about 2-to-3 miles away from Anaheim, California, world-famous since Sunday, July 17, 1955 as the neighborhood where Disneyland is located. 🙂

[@hanschristianbrando5588]

Dig those empty freeways! Where was everybody?

[@doormatt4393]

At 4:11 Natalie Wood was a good swimmer.

[@quiricomazarin476]

The good old days Caucasian & normality.

[@dariowiter3078]

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