1925 MGM METRO GOLDWYN MAYER STUDIO TOUR CULVER CITY CALIFORNIA HOLLYWOOD MOVIE MAKING 62364

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This extraordinary silent film dates to 1925 and presents a tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in Culver City, California — today the Sony Pictures Studios. The film opens at 1:33 with a sweeping shot of the studio lot. At 3:30 the studio gate on Washington Blvd. is shown and at 3:55, the studio's wire to New York (a telegraph!) At 4:00 MGM's main building on Washington Blvd. is seen with Model T Fords running past. At 6:37 Stage 14 is shown under construction; it is one of many on the lot. At 7:26 story executives including Mrs. M.F. Lee are shown. Writers and directors are shown at 7:53 including Carey Wilson, Howard Hawks, Agnes Charley Johnston, Frederic and Fanny Hatton, Waldemar Young, Jane Murfin, Max Marcin. Directors are shown at 10:33 (see below for a list of names), stars at 11:53, and the casting office at 15:45. At 17:39 Yellow Coach buses are seen unloading at the studio entrance. At 18;30 costume department staff is shown. At 20:45 some of the MGM cameramen are see...