Crowded South Broadway street shopping district of Los Angeles California in 1950. Intersection of 7th Street and S. Broadway Los Angeles. American Red Cross flags hang from many buildings and a sign "Give more than before" as part of a blood drive. Desmonds department store sign visible in distance on South Broadway. Traffic light on the street. Pedestrians crossing the street. Vehicular traffic of cars, trucks and streetcar trolleys on the street. Passengers step down from a streetcar at a stop. It is number 59 with a sign that reads, in part, South San Pedro. View of shops on S Broadway including Bullocks Department Store on the corner of 7th Street and Broadway, Le Roys at 633 South Broadway, Harris & Frank's. A policeman stands at the intersection and directs traffic. Near ground level view of legs and feet of pedestrians with late 1940s and early 1950's mens and womens fashions. 1940s and 1950 truck, bus, and car automobile traffic clogs streets and highways of Los Angeles. Clothes hanging in front of residential garden apartments. Two babies standing in doorway of ground floor apartment, and a young boy sitting on the building steps.
Crocodiles and alligators basking in the sun at a zoo. A large house with gardens. View of La Cienega Blvd. including the Coronet Theatre at 366 North La Cienega. Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery. Cars on a road. Mountains in the background. A man stands near his car. The car is parked in front of a flower shop. The man buys flowers. View of City Hall and shops nearby. A sign reads 'Brilliant furniture Company.
World premiere of the comedy film ‘My Man Godfrey’ (1957) in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Hollywood stars Eva Gabor, June Allyson, and Jeff Donnell outside the Grauman's Chinese Theatre (6925 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028, United States) in Los Angeles, California. June Allyson signs autographs, as fans cheer her on. Co-star David Niven joins Allyson as they meet their fans.
Clip includes scenes from two different events, one week apart. First scenes are from October 5, 1918. Large crowd gathered in Los Angeles California a stage with a mock tank in Central Park, during the Fourth Liberty Loan Drive in World War I. A banner reads "Buy bonds from Sessue Hayakawa" on a podium. Two little girls dressed in traditional Japanese attire kimono, seen on the podium. Japanese American movie star Sessue Hayakawa speaks through a megaphone to sell Liberty bonds during World War I. The next scene, from one week earlier on September 29, 1918, shows Hollywood actress Mary Pickford working the crowd and selling war bonds as she addresses the large gathering through a megaphone during the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign opening event in Los Angeles. Next Mary Pickford is seen seated on the stage. Shots of the crowd are seen. Next scene returns to the event on October 5, 1918. Sessue Hayakawa is speaking to the crowd, and the two Japanese girls on the stage are joined by another little girl, Hollywood child actor Mary Jane Irving. A man asks Mary Jane Irving to speak to the crowd, and she does. Sessue Hayakawa speaks again. Hollywood star Louise Fazenda stands in front a sales report board with a note pad writing down pledges. (Additional information from the Los Angeles Times, October 6, 1918: "Yesterday afternoon a big crowd turned out to greet Sessue Hayakawa and members of his company, including two bright little Japanese girls who shouted through megaphones, "Please buy a bond." Mary Jane Irving, an American sister in art, was on deck with the same message, which appealed mightily to the folks on the ground. Hayakawa made a stirring appeal for the sale of bonds. He said that although his color is different, and his features not the same as ours, he was 100 per cent American and then to prove it he bought $10,000 worth of bonds.")
The world premiere of screwball comedy film, ‘My Man Godfrey’ in Hollywood, Los Angeles. People in large numbers gather outside the Grauman's Chinese Theater (6925 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028, United States). One by one various Hollywood stars speaks over a microphone, on a dais outside the theater. Errol Flynn, with his two daughters, Sandra Dee, Dick Powell and June Allyson, also appear on the dais. June Allyson and her co-stars promote their new film to the press.
Scenes from the Fourth Liberty loan drive opening night event in Los Angeles California, United States. Officers, soldiers, sailors, veterans and mostly civilian men are seen marching, accompanied by a Navy Band on a crowded street of Los Angeles at night. They carry signs reading: "Liberty Loan," "service star," and "Eagle Loose." Large crowd gathered. Entertainers on stage sell and promote Liberty loan bonds as they address the gathering. People gathered around a bond sales desk. Hollywood actress Clara Kimball Young, in a dark dress and feathered hat, speaks to the crowd. She is then joined, seated, by Hollywood actress Blanche Sweet, in a white dress. Ms. Sweet removes her hat and the crowd appears to react to her hair style. The woman in the dark dress leads the crowd in a song. Next scene shows Hollywood actress Mary Pickford speaking to the crowd. Men subscribing to buy bonds. Crowd cheers the performers on stage as they stir up enthusiasm and update a board listing sales figures.
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