Guest Magoo Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Here's a very cool little five-minute film of vehicles cruising Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills one beautiful California day in 1935. Evidently the film was originally shot as rear projection stock footage for the Hollywood movies but at any rate, there's a lot of interesting stuff going on. Check out the big old Rolls-Royce Sedan early in the sequence, and some cherry '34 and '35 Fords. How many vehicles can you identify? (You guys all of them, probably.) Video: Crusing Wilshire Boulevard, 1935 | Mac's Motor City Garage.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldcarfudd Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 It's startling to me how few cars, and how few people, there are in that film. How crowded would it be today? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tenugent Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 id have to watch again to count -alot of gas stations.great video-thanks-got anymore... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curti Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Great vidio! How many cars with white walls can you spot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarrsCars Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 It's startling to me how few cars, and how few people, there are in that film. How crowded would it be today?As someone who lived for many years in Los Angeles in the recent past I can say that you are just as likely to see empty sidewalks today as back then, nobody walks in that town... everybody drives, not that I mind really. I used to take my dog to the little park that runs along Santa Monica Blvd. in Beverly Hills and sit under a giant Ficus tree and just spend a couple of lazy hours watching the parade of insane rare and cool automobiles that would drive past. It's such a car-centric town that many of my friends living there had no idea there was even a modest subway system beneath LA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave@Moon Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 You have to wonder how much gasoline the station with the exhorbitant price of 12.9 cents/gal. was selling when the other 2 stations with curb signs were both 9.9 cents.Love the Packard dealer's showroom and used car lot at 3 min./14 sec.!!:cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R Walling Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 Every once and a while I seen the drivers stick their arm out the window whenever thet stopped or turned, I wonder what that was all about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huptoy Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 It looks like the car on the right is a 1929 or maybe 1930/31 Hupmobile Model S with wire wheels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plymouthcranbrook Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 Every once and a while I seen the drivers stick their arm out the window whenever thet stopped or turned, I wonder what that was all about?It looked like a couple of times a driver was giving the old hand signal for slowing down. That is left arm out of driver window pointed down. When I got my drivers permit in 1965 we had to know all three hand signals for stop, left and right turn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Magoo Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 It looked like a couple of times a driver was giving the old hand signal for slowing down. That is left arm out of driver window pointed down. When I got my drivers permit in 1965 we had to know all three hand signals for stop, left and right turn.I think Roger was pulling our legs a tiny bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leomara Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Why did this link go away and now they ask you to go to YouTube? Also, all the YouTube copies have music added, I wanted to here the noise of the traffic which was there before. ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Magoo Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Why did this link go away and now they ask you to go to YouTube? Also, all the YouTube copies have music added, I wanted to here the noise of the traffic which was there before. ???No good reason, simply the prerogative of the person who hosts the YouTube channel. I have never found a version with ambient sound, only silent and music-tracked versions. Apparently the footage was created to use in process shots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlLaFong Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 When I got my drivers permit in 1965 we had to know all three hand signals for stop, left and right turn.My grand daughter took her test last week. You still need to know them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leomara Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 No good reason, simply the prerogative of the person who hosts the YouTube channel. I have never found a version with ambient sound, only silent and music-tracked versions. Apparently the footage was created to use in process shots.Magoo, thanks for the input. Yes, there is a version where you hear the noise from the car or truck which is moving the camera and in it you can hear the acceleration and shifting of gears, very cool, however I don't know what happened to that version..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarrsCars Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Magoo, thanks for the input. Yes, there is a version where you hear the noise from the car or truck which is moving the camera and in it you can hear the acceleration and shifting of gears, very cool, however I don't know what happened to that version.....I don't remember that one either. If you find it let me know. Not saying it's impossible but it would have been much more difficult to record sound in a moving vehicle at that time, "talkies" didn't even happen until about 8 or so years prior so the technology would have been costly, especially if it was just for process shots. I'd wonder if they simply didn't dub audio to match in the version you saw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JACK M Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Ironically my first trip along Wilshire Blvd was this last Saturday. Lots more traffic now and I don't recall that many gas stations.I don't much care for the traffic that I encountered in LA. They seem to be much more aggressive than I am used to. Especially the young girls. They all drive like they are late. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Magoo Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 Ironically my first trip along Wilshire Blvd was this last Saturday. Lots more traffic now and I don't recall that many gas stations.I don't much care for the traffic that I encountered in LA. They seem to be much more aggressive than I am used to. Especially the young girls. They all drive like they are late.You nailed it. They're also texting, applying makeup, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
39BuickEight Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 Neat video!In LA you need a good car, in NY you need good shoes. Been to both, love them both! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Magoo Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Magoo, thanks for the input. Yes, there is a version where you hear the noise from the car or truck which is moving the camera and in it you can hear the acceleration and shifting of gears, very cool, however I don't know what happened to that version.....Would love to find that. Will keep my eye open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pomeroy41144 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 (edited) Here is the version with car sounds. In my opinion, these automobile sounds were probably added after the film was shot. I say this because all you hear is the car sound--there is no ambient sound of the street or of other vehicles, horns, etc. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=42a_1360248193 Edited January 25, 2014 by Pomeroy41144 (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leomara Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Thank you Pomeroy41144, now that I think about it your explanation is probably correct but this version does give it charm...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Magoo Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Thanks, Pomerory41144, good find. I believe your take on the sound is correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C Carl Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 This does deserve to be renewed back to the top. Thanks to Curt for remembering this video. - Carl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Dobbin Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 Neat film clip. I liked the silent version better because the sound was kind fake sounding. I did notice no traffic lane lines on the pavement. Most drivers behaved anyway! Wouldn't happen that way today. I especially liked to see lots of closed car models, proving not all old cars were roadsters or phaetons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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