“LET’S 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