- Title: V-6966
- Summary: MISC. HOLLYWOOD: REUNION HAL ROACH'S "OUR GANG COMEDY" KIDS; TYRONE POWER WITH DAISY THE COW WHO STARS IN "OLD CHICAGO". TWO LEGENDARY COMEDIANS ON TENNIS COURT. CHARLIE CHAPLIN PLAYS GROUCHO MARX GAME OF TENNIS; SONJA HENIE AT SID GRAUMAN'S CHINESE, LEAVES HER SKATE PRINT ON "WALK OF FAME'. BIG SWIMMING MEET AT BRENTWOOD COUNTRY CLUB HOSTED AND OFFICIATED BY COMEDIAN STAN LAUREL. COMEDIAN LOU COSTELLO AT OFFICE, CLOWNS AROUND, DEMONSTRATES HIS "SERV-ICE" ELECTRIC ICE-MAKING MACHINE WHICH HE INVENTED.
- Description:02:48:28 - "THE HOLLYWOOD SPOTLIGHT". VARIOUS SCENES REUNION BETWEEN HAL ROACH'S 1921 "OUR GANG" COMEDY" KIDS, AND THEIR 1936 SUCCESSORS. 02:48:28 - YOUNGER AND OLDER OUR GANG KIDS SIT AT LONG DINING TABLE HAVING A LUNCHEON. TWO GROUPS POSING FOR GROUP SHOT. OLDER GROUP IN BACK OF HIS/HER YOUNGER COUNTER PART. 02:48:42 - OLDER MARY CORNMAN STANDS BEHIND DONNA HOOD, FOUR YEAR-OLD HEROINE, POSE. 02:48:46 - ORIGINAL FAT BOY JOE COBB STANDS BEHIND PORKY LEE, POSE. 02:48:50 - JOHNNY DOWNS AND "SPANKY" MCFARLAND HORSE AROUND. "SPANKY" THROWS PLAYFUL PUNCHES AT THE OLDER DOWNS' FACE. 02:48:55 - "FARINA" INTRODUCES HIMSELF AND SMALLER AND YOUNGER "BUCKWHEAT" IN FRONT OF HIM, WHO SAYS, "YOU SAID IT!" 02:49:01 - JACKIE CONDLON STANDS BEHIND CARL "ALFALFA" SWITZER, ASKS ALFALFA TO SING. 02:49:06 - "ALFALFA" SINGS, "WE WILL KILL YOUR RED ROOSTER, WE WILL KILL YOUR RED ROOSTER, WE WILL KILL YOUR RED ROOSTER, WHEN SHE COMES", TO THE TUNE OF "SHE'LL BE COMIN' ROUND THE MOUNTAIN". CU HE MAKES COMICAL FACE AFTERWARDS. 02:49:22 - THE "OUR GANG", OF 1921, SIT IN GRASS, POSE FOR GROUP SHOT. CU PHOTO OF ORIGINAL "OUR GANG COMEDY" KIDS, AS THEY LOOKED IN 1921. 02:49:27 - THE 1936 "OUR GANG COMEDY KIDS", ALL LINED UP SIDE BY SIDE. THE SMALLEST (DONNA HOOD) TO THE TALLEST (CARL "ALFALFA" SWITZER). 02:49:41 - "HOLLYWOOD SPOTLIGHT". ACTOR TYRONE POWER IN MOVIE COSTUME FOR FILM "OLD CHICAGO", WALKS "DAISY, MRS. O'LEERY'S COW, WHO STARTED THE INFAMOUS CHICAGO FIRE, TO GATE OF STUDIO. GATEMAN LETS IN "DAISY: AND HER "CO-STAR" TYRONE. TYRONE PROCEEDS IN SPRAYING COW WITH HAND-POWERED INSECT SPRAYER. 02:50:00 - ACTRESSES ALICE BRADY, PHYLLIS BROOK AND ALICE FAYE IN EARLY CENTURY COSTUME, EACH CARY ARM FULL OF HAY FOR THE COW. POWER TAKES COW TO THEM, COW EATS HAY. 02:50:14 - "SPORTS". TENNIS. ACTORS-COMEDIANS, GROUCH MARX AND THE GREAT CHARLIE CHAPLIN PLAY AGAINST EACH OTHER IN TENNIS DOUBLES MATCH, TO AUDIENCE OF FILM CELEBRITIES. BOTH HAVE TENNIS CHAMPIONS, ELSWORTH LYONS AND FRED PERRY AS PARTNERS. 02:50:27 - GROUCHO MARX SERVES TO START GAME. VARIOUS SCENES OF GAME IN PROGRESS. AUDIENCE OF UNIDENTIFIED FILM CELEBRITIES. 02:50:42 - CHARLIE CHAPLIN SERVES TO LYONS, MAKES SEVERAL WELL PLAYED RETURNS. CHAPLIN AND PERRY WIN GAME. ALL FOUR SIT ON TENNIS COURT SURFACE, EAT LUNCH. 02:51:07 - FILM STAR-OLYMPIC ICE SKATING CHAMPION SONJA HENIE, PUTS ON ICE SKATES TO MAKE PRINT ON HOLLYWOOD'S "WALK OF FAME" OUTSIDE SID GRAUMAN'S CHINESE THEATER. 02:51:18 - CU SONJA HENIE SMILES AS SHE PLACES SKATE SKATE PRINT INTO CEMENT WALK. CU SONJA'S NORWEGIAN LANGUAGE GREETING, HER SIGNATURE, HAND AND SKATE PRINTS. 02:51:43 - "HOLLYWOOD REEL" SIGN: HOLLYWOOD BLVD." PRODUCERS ERSKINE JOHNSON AND COY WATSON CRUISING DOWN HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD IN CONVERTIBLE, CAMERA READY. 02:52:17 - "CLOSE UPS AND LONG SHOTS". VARIOUS SCENES SWIMMING MEET FOR HOLLYWOOD YOUNGER SET AT BRENTWOOD BANTAM CLUB, IS OFFICIATED BY HOLLYWOOD'S GREAT COMEDIAN, STAN LAUREL. 02:52:19 - THREE YOUNG GIRLS FACING CAMERA, DO BACK STROKE AS THEY HOLD U. S. FLAGS IN HAND 02:52:25 - OFFICIAL STAN LAUREL LINE UP YOUNG GIRLS AT EDGE OF POOL FOR START OF RACE. CU LAUREL MAKES SOME OF HIS FAMED FACIAL EXPRESSIONS, AS HE MAKES SEVERAL ATTEMPTS TO FIRE STARTING PISTOL WITH EYES CLOSED FOR FEAR OF HEARING LOUD BANG. WHEN IT DOES GO OFF THE GIRLS DIVE IN, LAUREL SHOWS EXPRESSION OF SURPRISE. 02:53:07 - GIRLS SWIMMING IN THEIR LANES, AUDIENCE OF BOYS, GIRLS CHEERING THEM ON. 02:53:14 - STAN LAUREL SHAKES, HOLDS STOP WATCH TO EAR. CU LAUREL'S MAKES HIS FAMOUS GRIN. 02:53:24 - STAN SHAKES HANDS WITH WINNER, YOUNG TOMMY BRAVERMAN, GETS CONFUSED AS TO WHOM TO PIN THE AWARD. 02:54:52 - "HOLLYWOOD REEL". "COSTELLO" BUILDING ON SUNSET BOULEVARD. VARIOUS SCENES OF ACTOR-COMEDIAN LOU COSTELLO OF MOVIES, TELEVISIONS "ABBOTT AND COSTELLO" FAME, SHOWS PRETTY PAULA MARTIN, HOW TO USE ELECTRIC ICE-MAKING MACHINE HE INVENTED. INVENTION 02:54:57 - LOU COSTELLO, CIGAR IN MOUTH, WALKS OUT OF HIS OFFICE BUILDING, MAKES SOME CLOWNING GESTURES BEFORE HE SPOTS PRETTY PAULA MARTIN WHO PASSES, ENTERS HIS BUILDING. LOU FOLLOWS, MISSES DOOR WALKS INTO GLASS WALL. 02:55:38 - LOU OFFERS PAULA GLASS OF WATER, MISSES THE GLASS AS HE POURS WATER OUT OF PITCHER. HE TASTES WATER, SPITS IT OUT. HE TAKES HER GLASS SHOWS HER HIS "COSTELLO SERV-ICE" ELECTRIC ICE DISPENSING MACHINE, FINANCED BY LOU FOR $50.000. 02:56:06 - CU MECHANISM SHOWING HOW MACHINE WORKS. LOU CLOWNS AROUND WITH PAULA. 02:56:54 - TAPE ENDS.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1934
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1930s
- File Name: V-6966