https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/d8d61248-0600-4c34-a102-2ffe7db71522 Made by the short-lived Mercury Pictures (not to be confused with Orson Welles' company), this silent short "Studios on Parade" was sold to the home market in the 1940s. It begins with shots of the "Cardboard Valley" and shots of many movie studios from RKO Pictures to Warner Brothers, Universal, Cecil B. DeMille Productions, and Columbia Pictures. At :34 RKO and Paramount are shown. At :43 an abandoned set from the 1937 movie Wells Fargo is seen on the back lot. At :59 construction of a movie set is seen. At 1:07, the film goes on set of a Little Rascals shoot and at 1:19 "Mickey is run over" in a carefully staged shot. At 1:34 kid actors are seen in school on a working set. At 1:45 Spanky and Mickey are seen on the set in front of the car. At 2:00 "Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton" are caught in an artificial rain storm with acetylene torches producing lightning. At 3:10 more rain effects are seen. We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference." 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 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBS2U_M3mUY Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:25:09 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/d8d61248-0600-4c34-a102-2ffe7db71522 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.