Hollywood Scenes

16mm footage:

Landmarks & Establishing shots: Hollywood sign; Griffith Park Observatory; high angle Hollywood area at dusk; outside the El Capitan (Disney) Theater - people buying tickets, walking across the stars on the sidewalk; flag-draped building after 9/11; Capitol Records building at night; KFWB radio station exterior at night; traffic on the 101 freeway at night from a bridge; Hollywood Farmer's Market

Construction of the Hollywood/Highland complex (current home to the Academy Awards ceremony); Hollywood/Highland complex shortly after opening with crowds

Memorial tributes at Frank Sinatra's sidewalk stars (there are two different stars).

Warren Beatty putting his handprints and footprints in cement at the Chinese Theater

Premiere of the film "Godzilla" at the Cinerama Theater

The 1996 "Razzie Awards", a spoof of the Oscars

Hollywood's "Welcome Back Desert Storm Parade"

Scenes of the seamy side of Hollywood: closed stores, graffiti, trash in the street; shot in 2004

8mm home movie footage:

Brown Derby restaurant; "Hollywoodland" sign with couple posing in foreground