https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/f2aa6a41-a1b8-43d0-821f-23cb7e5376d6 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Part 1: https://youtu.be/dHaiZNmAQd8 "Hollywood My Home Town" (1965) features home movie footage shot by Ken Murray, showing some of Hollywood's greatest stars of the 20th Century in candid moments. Murray started shooting films in 1927 with a 16mm camera, capturing scenes of early Los Angeles, Hollywood Boulevard, and various studios. His footage includes stars like Will Rogers, Carol Lombard, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks. Murray notes changes in Hollywood with the advent of talkies and showcases early film industry technology and stars like Rudy Vallee and Maurice Chevalier. Murray received a special Academy Award in 1947 for "novel and entertaining use of the medium". • 0:17: Radio had a significant impact on Hollywood in the 1930s. • 0:19: Sunday nights were synonymous with Edgar Bergen and his characters Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd. • 0:30: Exciting moments included WC Fields' famous feud with Charlie McCarthy. • 0:42: A prized photo of WC Fields at Universal Studio. • 1:10: Radio brought Bing Crosby to Hollywood; he sang at the narrator's wedding. • 1:19: Bing Crosby's early movie career and his influence on popularizing golf. • 2:00: John Barrymore and Jean Harlow practicing golf. • 3:09: Polo was popular in the early 30s, with Will Rogers promoting the game. • 4:01: Tennis and badminton were also popular among Hollywood stars. • 5:12: Vacation trips and home movies captured a carefree quality. • 7:00: Various stars like Van Heflin and Susan Hayward were featured in home movies. • 9:13: The narrator's show "Blackouts" was a hit from 1942 to 1949. • 10:07: War changed many lives in Hollywood, with stars like Tyrone Power and Glenn Ford serving. • 12:31: Charity baseball games drew large crowds, featuring stars like Frank Sinatra and Andy Russell. • 14:19: Post-war, Bing Crosby played baseball with his sons. • 15:07: Bob Cummings taught his kids to swim in an unusual way. • 17:01: The narrator's son appeared on a TV show, reluctantly participating in a love song. • 18:35: The narrator reflects on three decades of filming Hollywood and its stars. • 20:17: Despite claims of lost glamour, Hollywood remains vibrant and glamorous to the narrator. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. 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=ky8IIHH2r8k Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:08:24 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/f2aa6a41-a1b8-43d0-821f-23cb7e5376d6 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.