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Hollywood at Last!

Hollywood at Last!

1979-08-26
  • TV Movie
  • , Documentary
51 minutes

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)

Theo UittenbogaardDirector
Piet SchreudersWriter
Theo UittenbogaardWriter

Top Billed Cast

Karen Bunde

Carowner / Herself

Leo Davis

Letteringartist / Himself

Barry Hyman

Filmtitleartist / Himself

Piet Schreuders

Narrator / Himself

Ted Wegar

Letterexpert at LA Times / Himself

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