Let’s Go to the Movies

Duration: 400 ft.

Year Published: 1950

Creator: RKO Radio.

Complete Record: ES of a film set. man standing over a kinetoscope. CU of kinetoscope. shots of three different evolutionary stages of the automobile. “The Hills of Kentucky” with Mary Pickford. Charlie Chaplin film as in a penny arcade - flipping stills in rapid succession. continuous motion projector. crowd watching film. titles and scene from “the Great Train Robbery” and “Birth of a Nation”. large titles - “President Roosevelt Advocates the Big Stick Policy”. Scientist researching sound. earliest device to record sound for film. Scene and titles from the Jazz singer. Al Jolson sings Mamie. John Barrymore as Richard III. Philharmonic Orchestra. Campus Theater marquis for Key Largo playing with Kisney’s “Melody Time” cartoon. More marquis. billboard ads for movies. streets of Hollywood. Hollywood Post Office. lots of different movie crew people doing their jobs. Frame by frame view of man riding a bucking horse in a ring. then sped up view. huge tree being dragged through dirt while a man gets out of the way. more theater marquis.