Summary

PETRIFIED MATERIAL

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: PETRIFIED MATERIAL
File Number: PET-336 1 inch
Color: B W
Type: Outtakes
Year: 1920s; 1930s
Description: 02:01:00:00 B W 1930s Theater EXT - "Midnight Show" "Edward G Robinson" on marquee. 02:03:40:00 B W 1920s Interior nightclub - chorus girl dancers, dance orchestra. (Warner Bros. outtake) could be very early 1930s (1930 1931) 02:05:54:00 B W 1932 Street EXT - Arrow Theater - Vaudeville "15 cents in all the world no meal like this". (Looks like, but is NOT Coney Island a street car trolley with the words "Pacific Electric" passes by CAM from R to L the location may be near Venice Pier in California). 02:08:01:00 B W 1930s Nightclub interior - dancers (flamenco?) people walking to their tables. 02:10:00:00 B W 1920s Amusement park fun house - Coney Island. People on big "slide" ride, and other great old rides and attractions, including someone in blackface inside a dunk tank. (One of the people on the slide is Louise Fazenda). 02:15:26:00 B W 1920s Interior of silent movie house 02:17:32:00 B W 1920s Roaring 20s New York City: 1927 footage of heavy street traffic in New York City - "Wings" marquee - '5 cents new rate' for taxi cab. (Broadway Times Square area). Double decker buses. Loew's State movie theater marquee LON CHANEY IN "THE BIG CITY" (1928) GREAT POV shots from rear of moving car, passing through Broadway Times Square period automobiles, pedestrians, buildings. 02:22:20:00 B W 1910s-1920s Mack Sennett Girls frolic at Jones Beach (?) circa 1919. Girl plays baseball on beach. Sennett Girls at Venice Beach circa 1919 - parade, swimming. Beauty contest at Venice Beach. 02:30:53:00 B W 1920s Drink set ups - inserts. GREAT CU shots of hands shaking cocktail shakers, squirting seltzer into drink glasses, rubbing a champagne bottle in ice bucket, pouring martinis, popping cork of champagne bottle. Waist high shot of bartender behind cocktail bar, mixing drinks. More cocktail shaker shot (different angles). CU tray filled with cocktails. CU 45-degree angle shot of seltzer being squirted into drink glasses. Great mcu shot of champagne glasses lined up in a row, hand pouring champagne into glasses (45-degree angle). 02:37:06:00 B W 1920s CU of hands opening Champagne bottle. 02:37:23:00 B W 1920s 1930s Nightclub EXT signs, "Cotton Club", "Club Royale" in Chicago, "Coffin Nail", etc. Beginning at 02:40:00:26 GREAT sequence (night shots) of 1920s and 1930s New York City nightclub, theater, restaurant signs: Hotel Astor, Roseland ballroom marquee, Hollywood Restaurant, Paradise Cabaret (NTG Revue), Billy Rose's Music Hall (revue, newsreel, dancing and 3 course dinner "ALL FOR $1" !!!), Cotton Club all 1920s segment of Everglades club, Silver Slipper, Palais D'Or, Helen Morgan's 54th Street Club, Casa Lopez, Texas Guinan's 300 Club, Club Richman, and other signs from other cities. 02:49:02:00 B W 1920s Broadway "Warner's Theater", "Roseland", "Vitaphone". 02:49:32:00 B W 1920s Broadway - Times Square in the 20s. "The Jazz Singer" (play on Broadway). 02:50:08:00 B W 1920s Nightclub - people in formal dress dancing at circular bar, giant Creme de Menthe bottle. 02:51:53:00 B W 1920s Stock Market crash - chart showing daily average stock fluctuation. 02:52:16:00 B W 1920s Stock market ticker and reaction and date. 02:54:01:00 B W 1920s Sennett dancing girls - dance into garden. 02:55:00:00 B W 1920s Movie premiere - celebrities arrive.
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