Movie Studio Movies

Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.

Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The film city was solemnly inaugurated in 1937 by...

A group of tourists is given a tour of a movie studio lot. They see the various permanent sets that are used for different types of movies, and they...

Richard Dreyfuss hosts a celebration of the 80 year history of Universal Studios. Founded as IMP by Carl Leammle to oppose Edison's Motion Picture...

Sunset Boulevard is Andrew Lloyd Webber's latest musical. It is based on Billy Wilder's classic 1950 film. "Sunset Boulevard" is the story of faded...

This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a...

At fading indie horror studio, its owner Jefferson, and his nephew Caleb, a young horror movie obsessive and aspiring makeup artist, finally gets his...

This short film chronicles various events associated with MGM's 1937 convention for the studio's national sales and distribution staff.

This second entry in MGM's "Romance of Film" series documents how celluloid movie film is processed and features behind-the-scenes glimpses of...

In this murder mystery, sexy blonde film star Irma Gladden is found dead in her car after shooting the last scene in her film, "Falling Star" at...

This humorous Pete Smith Specialty short looks around various studios on a film lot.

In 1984, a massive fire destroyed the entire 17-year output of an exploitation movie studio. But the recent discovery of eleven lost trailers sheds a...

In this "Romance of Celluloid", MGM showcases performers whose careers are just starting. Excerpts from their recently released films are included....

Since 1922, Boulogne-Billancourt cinema studios have welcomed the greatest actors, directors and technicians of French cinema and have given birth to...