Golden Age of Hollywood - Hilarious Flubs & Outtakes from the 1930s
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Channel: Historic Films Stock Footage Archive · 2014 · Comedy
A remarkable collection of behind-the-scenes footage, bloopers, flubbed lines, and uncensored outtakes from early 1930s industrial and sales films, offering a rare glimpse of actors and filmmakers when the cameras kept rolling after things went wrong. The reel opens with period music and scenes involving automobile salesmen, chauffeurs, business meetings, and a Plymouth “Floating Power” dealership. Actors stumble over scripted sales pitches, break character, argue with one another, mug for the camera, and occasionally respond to mistakes with profanity rarely heard in surviving films of the period. Other sequences include a comic fantasy about winning an automobile race, a 1933 radio broadcast, Art Deco fashions, studio mishaps, vaudeville-style comedy, and numerous discarded takes from sales films produced by the Wilding Company. Broadcaster Lowell Thomas also appears in a memorable outtake. Later portions contain unusual and adult-oriented footage involving farm animals, including animal mating and a disturbing livestock procedure, as well as a brief scene involving an adult item found in an automobile. The material reflects attitudes and practices of its era that may be offensive or disturbing to modern viewers. The film concludes with more profanity-filled outtakes and a final farewell to the meeting. An extraordinary time capsule of early sound filmmaking, revealing the mistakes, jokes, frustrations, period language, social attitudes, and unexpected moments that audiences were never intended to see. For licensing inquiries please contact Historic Films Archive ([email protected] / http://www.historicfilms.com)
