Hollywood at Last

Dedicated Dutch graphic designer Piet Schreuders visits Los Angeles to investigate all kinds of typeface as used in titlecredits for movies and TVseries letters on billboards shopwindows or streetsigns the bannerheadlines of The Los Angeles Times and climbs finally to the giant letters of the HOLLYWOODsign In the meantime he discovers to his great satisfaction the location and stairs where Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy shot their movie The Musicbox by combining streetsigns partially shown on stillpictures of this movie MONTE and ENDOME which turn out to be found on the street corner of Del Monte and Vendome in Culver City This documentary is bluntly intercut with commercials a phenomenon not yet known in the Netherlands in 1979 Theo Uittenbogaard