Let's go to the movies

Duration: 0:37:13

Genre: Educational | Show business | Sponsored

Year Published: 1948

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | Members of the Motion Picture Industry: Presenter | Teaching Film Custodians: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: The first in a series of twelve, one-reel films designed to present behind-the scenes activities of the motion picture industry. This film chronicles the technical and aesthetic growth of moving pictures, using excerpts from "The Great Train Robbery", "The Birth of a Nation", "Easy Street", "The Jazz Singer", "In the Hills of Old Kentucky", "Show of Shows", and "Night Song". A salute to the 30,000 people working in Hollywood includes a montage which illustrates some of the 272 different crafts involved in filmmaking. An overview of the physical production of celluloid (cotton and silver) is included. The narrator promises additional short films about each step in movie production.

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Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive, Visual Studies Workshop

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