Behind-the-scenes footage showing Alice Guy directing an early sound film.
Маленький, всеми помыкаемый реквизитор Давид, выведенный из себя бесконечными придирками ленивых рабочих и прежде всего собственного начальника по имени Голиаф, устраивает забастовку и начинает мстить своим обидчикам. Ему помогает девушка, которая ищет работу и переоделась парнем. Когда Давид выясняет, что это девушка, то влюбляется в нее…
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at work.
The owners of a movie studio are having problems with a temperamental director, and they promise an actor on one of his pictures that he can have the job if he can find a way to make the director leave the picture.
Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.
Pompeyo and Rodolfo work in a newspaper, but they dream of becoming film actors, so they go to a casting for an American film that will be shot in Madrid for a few days; but things will not turn out as they expect…
The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the studio's founding in 1912. It was a promotional film for exhibitors and never had a regular theatrical release and includes a brief history of Paramount, interviews with various actors, and clips from upcoming projects (some of which never came to fruition). The title comes from a biography of Paramount founder Adolph Zukor, The House That Shadows Built (1928), by William Henry Irwin.
The story follows a movie crew who is filming a musical in a small and idyllic alpine village. After their temperamental leading lady drops out of the film, they decide to replace her with the village's young post office clerk Gretl, who returns to Berlin with them. There she has to struggle with the movie's all-male crew, who all try to woo and win her.
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.
Интересно смотреть на эту ленту с высоты прошедших лет, и с удивлением отмечать высокое мастерство спецэффектов, грамотную режиссуру и добротный сценарий. Начинаются приключения с того, что на отдаленном, диком острове научная экспедиция захватывает громадную человекообразную обезьяну и, не мудрствуя лукаво, привозит ее в Нью-Йорк для показа праздной публике. Кто бы мог подумать, что этот жуткий монстр, способен на такое тонкое чувство, как любовь - эта чертова обезьяна, жить не может без миниатюрной и нежной главной героини...
Promoter "Smoothie" King helps a pair of phonies con their way into a movie company. As Wanda heads toward stardom, she turns more and more from King toward the matinée idol. King must decide between his plans and her happiness.
In this short film, an elderly cameraman and his camera reminisce about their days shooting silent films and news stories.
This short shows the entrances of the various Hollywood studios, then specifically visits Warner Bros. / First National Studios. We start at the casting office, then see Busby Berkeley and choreographer Bobby Connolly working with chorus girls on production numbers. Then come some candid shots of several contract stars. Finally we see comedian Hugh Herbert filming a scene for an upcoming release, then the various behind the scenes steps that transition the raw film in the camera into the finished product.
W.C.Fields enters the Warmer Bros. Studio. Beans tries to drive in, but the guard throws him and his car against a tree. Charlie Chaplin drives in, followed by Oliver Hardy on foot - but we see that it's really Beans in disguise. Oliver Owl is directing a picture; Beans sneaks onto the stage. He's watching from a catwalk when someone knocks him off, into the middle of the scene. Beans is thrown off the set, right into the set of a Frankenstein movie. He accidentally brings the robotic monster to life, and it crashes into the original studio, eating the camera. Beans tries to stop the monster, but is sent flying. He lands against a wind machine. which chops up the monster.
The star of "Song of the Toreador" receives threatening messages that he will not survive the preview screening of the film. The studio publicist works with the Director, the Producer and the police, to discover who is behind the threats.
Hyman Goldberger, the president of film studio Super-Colossal Pictures, is in trouble--his major backer is threatening to stop financing his pictures. He finds a group of six wealthy individuals who may want to become investors in the studio if his disgruntled backer pulls out. Unfortunately, his bumbling runner Albert picks that day to invite six of his street musician friends to be in the film that is currently shooting at the studio, and Hyman mistakes them for the potential investors. Complications ensue.
История теряющего популярность актера, предлагающего официантке сделать из нее знаменитость. Через некоторое время карьера девушки взлетает до небес, а его слава окончательно угасает.
Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve main star Annabel in ever outrageous stunts for publicity.
Джон Ллойд Салливан, самый преуспевающий комедиограф Голливуда, собирается впервые снять серьёзный фильм. Он верит, что в мире сегодня столько страданий и горя, что людям не до смеха. В поисках сюжета для свой новой картины «О, где же ты, брат!», Джон решает с одной монетой в кармане и в нищенском «рванье» проехать всю Америку, чтобы в полной мере осознать, что такое бедность и лишения. В первом же кафе он обнаруживает, что лишился даже той единственной монеты, которая была при нем. На помощь приходит невероятно красивая блондинка в вечернем платье, с которой ему предстоит разделить все радости и невзгоды своего удивительного похода за правдой…
The story of the adventures and entanglements of the son of a famous film producer who is forced to study law.