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Hollywood at Last!

Hollywood at Last!

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TV Movie   Documentary
📜 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)
🌏 Languages Available: Dutch , English
📆 Date Released: 1979-08-26
⌚ Running Time: 51 mins
⭐ Vote Average: 0.0

Beloved Cast

Karen Bunde original image
Carowner / Herself
Karen Bunde
Leo Davis original image
Letteringartist / Himself
Leo Davis
Barry Hyman original image
Filmtitleartist / Himself
Barry Hyman
Piet Schreuders original image
Narrator / Himself
Piet Schreuders
Ted Wegar original image
Letterexpert at LA Times / Himself
Ted Wegar

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