Film
Hollywood at Last!
1979 · 51m · TV Movie · Documentary
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Overview
Dedicated Dutch graphic designer Piet Schreuders visits Los Angeles to investigate all kinds of typeface as used in title-credits for movies and TV-series, letters on billboards, shop-windows or street-signs, the banner-headlines of The Los Angeles Times, and climbs finally to the giant letters of the HOLLYWOOD-sign. In the meantime he discovers, to his great satisfaction, the location and stairs where Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy shot their movie 'The Musicbox', by combining street-signs, partially shown on still-pictures of this movie: "…MONTE" and "…ENDOME", which turn out to be found on the street corner of Del Monte and Vendome in Culver City. This documentary is bluntly intercut with commercials, a phenomenon not yet known in the Netherlands in 1979. (Theo Uittenbogaard)
Cast
Karen Bunde
Carowner / Herself
Leo Davis
Letteringartist / Himself
Barry Hyman
Filmtitleartist / Himself
Piet Schreuders
Narrator / Himself
Ted Wegar
Letterexpert at LA Times / Himself
Crew
- Theo UittenbogaardDirector
- Theo UittenbogaardWriter
- Piet SchreudersWriter
- Roelof KiersExecutive Producer
Details
- Release date
- August 26, 1979
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 51m
- Genres
- TV Movie, Documentary
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