This 1925 silent film was written and directed by H. Bruce Humberstone. It shows Broderick O’Farrell getting a tour of Universal Studios from Hayden Stevenson. The two visit various movie sets and the studio’s zoo. They meet many famous actors and directors along the way, showing that Universal Studios is indeed a “City of Stars.”

0:13 Manbeck Pictures Corporation title card (Manbeck was not a producer of the film, but a 1960s company that re-released it), 0:31 a star with fairies on it, 1:08 Carl Laemmle Presents “The City of Stars – A Reporter’s Visit to the Universal Studios”, 1:37 Written and directed by H. Bruce Humberstone and edited by Byron Robinson, 2:24 heavy traffic on Hollywood Boulevard, 2:52 Broderick O’Farrell gets out of a taxi and observes strange looking people nearby in amazement, 4:30 a tall man in a cowboy costume asks O’Farrell for a light, 4:45 people fight to get onto a shared car, 5:42 the shared car arrives at Universal Studios and all the actors get off, 6:10 O’Farrell looks around, enters a building, and waits in a waiting room, 7:50 O’Farrell begins speaking to Jean Hersholt who played in “My Old Dutch”, 8:32 O’Farrell meets Hayden Stevenson who will give him a tour, 9:06 Norman Kerry from “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” greets O’Farrell as he is dressed for “The Phantom of the Opera”, 9:58 O’Farrell and Stevenson begin the tour and he is nearly run over by a carriage, 10:31 Harry Pollard working on “California Straight Ahead,” 10:52 Gertrude Olmsted, 11:19 Marian Nixon, 12:24 Bill Desmond climbing into a car and O’Farrell and Stevenson run up to talk to him, 13:15 Desmond drives them to the Black Ranch at lightning speed, 13:53 they stop to speak with Reginald Denny who plays in “I’ll Show You the Town”, 15:00 both continue driving, 15:21 O’Farrell and Stevenson watch a Western Scene with Lola Todd being rehearsed and then speak to her, 16:13 Jack Hoxie speaks to both, 16:33 both get back into the car and drive off, 17:12 different animals at the zoo including an elephant and several camels, 17:52 overview of Universal Studios from above, 18:21 Josie Sedgwick in a rodeo, 18:40 the set of Larry Trimble as he is making “My Old Dutch”, 18:50 a man chasing a man in a monkey suit who begins chasing O’Farrell and Stevenson, 20:03 the monkey chases them onto the set of a movie being directed by Bill Seiter and begins causing chaos, 21:02 O’Farrell and Stevenson meet Seiter, 21:23 Laura La Plante starring in “The Teaser”, 21:38 Pat O’Malley, 21:55 Margaret Quimby playing in “Perils of the Wild”, 22:02 Alexander Carr starring in “Two Blocks Away”, 22:29 the two leave the set and continue their tour, 22:57 Alice Joyce and Clive Brook during the filming of “The Home Maker”, 23:14 Cullen Landis and Jacqueline Logan during the filming of “Peacock Feathers, 23:38 Norman Kerry and Patsy Ruth Miller during the filming of “The Nature Girl”, 23:03 Mary Philbin during the filming of “The Phantom of the Opera”, 24:28 Hoot Gibson rehearsing for “The Man in the Saddle”, 25:01 May McAvoy during the filming of “My Old Dutch”, 25:27 House Peters and Ruth Clifford during the filming of “The Storm Breaker”, 26:02 Louise Dresser during the filming of “The Goose Woman”, 26:25 Virginia Valli and Eugene O’Brien during the filming of “Siege”, 26:36 O’Farrell and Stevenson meet boxer Mickey Walker and his manager Jack Kearns, 27:03 General Manager Raymond L. Schrock, 27:23 a writer speaking to Schrock, 28:30 the two men say goodbye to each other.

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