[Home Movies: Pietsch Collection: "Black and White Weekend Jaunts," Part I]

[Home Movies: Pietsch Collection: "Black and White Weekend Jaunts," Part I]

Rejissyor: Pietsch, John. title: California 1941 title: Week-End Jaunts title: July 4, 1941 brief POV of Los Angeles streets through windshield VS Griffith Park and Griffith Observatory Griffith Observatory and Greek Theatre sign Sunset Boulevard seen in POV through windshield title: Homes of the Stars -- Jack Benny, 1148 Pickfair Way, Baby Snooks, Ralph Bellamy, Burns & Allen, Mary Boland, May Robson, Frank Morgan, "Humble Shack of Atwater Kent," "Here Lives Hormel, No Stockyard Smell,." Los Angeles overlooks, overlooking swimming pool. Title: July 12, 1941 Nice POV of nearly empty, newly built Hollywood Freeway; Hollywood Bowl exteriors and interiors; sign for Lake Hollywood; lake; Great POV of woman driving to the reservoir, shot over her shoulder Gay's Lion Farm, El Monte, California, with sequence of captive lions; trainer in jodhpurs with whip and lions making pyramids; this would be good if not shot through chainlink fence. Title: July 26, 1941. "The Tannahills join us on a field trip." Nice shots of men shooting 8mm movies on road to Mt. Wilson, good road shots, deer at Mount Wilson; family shots of 2 men and 2 women hanging out: on the road, feeding the deer, deer standing on hind legs to be fed, drinking soda or beer from can. Other shots; sign showing "Entrance to Mount Wilson Park Hotel and Observatory," the 100-inch telescope; exteriors of same; going up steps of telescope building; more exteriors, old (radio?) towers visible, more deer.

https://archive.org/details/6270HMPietschCollectionBlackAndWhiteWeekendJauntsPartI01355511 · Public domain (Internet Archive)