Thunderbird Films presents a 1920’s era, black and white, silent movie tour of Universal Studios. The movie opens in a movie set with a white building fronted by large flags, 00:20. The camera pans down the street to other white buildings and cars passing in the street, 00:48. The first scene takes place in The Scenario Department, 1:05. Men are smoking and going over paperwork in an office, 1:15. A very large white building is pictured, 1:20. Eddie Lyons and Lee Moran arrive, 1:25, followed by Victoria Forde, 1:38. The company is directed on what costumes to wear, 1:55. The scenery for the show is ordered, 2:20. The costumes are picked out, 2:35. Seamstresses work at sewing machines, 2:46. The furniture and settings show are removed from the property room, 2:55. A man walks down a corridor past other men with a movie camera, 3:38. The largest stage in the world is shown as the camera pans across it, 3:47. The scenes are set, 4:11. Men and women clamor around a movie camera, 4:25. The ensemble tries to make a movie scene, 4:42. Actors play their roles as the camera is run manually by a director, 4:55. The cast rearranges the set, 5:40. Transportation is slow but sure; an elephant pulls a cart with someone driving from sitting atop the elephant, 6:07. A scene is staged where men run through a door, 6:26. Mr. Otis Turner’s Company making a feature play, 6:44. An African marketplace set is shown, 6:52. Men on horseback come through the market, 6:57. The camera pans around the sound stage waiting for the actors to begin, 7:16. Lunch time, the crew takes a break for some food in the cafeteria, 7:52. A waiter waits on a table of ladies and gentlemen at the studio commissary 8:23.

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This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com