Dedicated Dutch graphic designer Piet Schreuders visits Los Angeles to investigate all kinds of typeface as used in title-credits for movies and TV-series, letters on billboards, shop-windows or street-signs, the banner-headlines of The Los Angeles Times, and climbs finally to the giant letters of the HOLLYWOOD-sign. In the meantime he discovers, to his great satisfaction, the location and stairs where Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy shot their movie 'The Musicbox', by combining street-signs, partially shown on still-pictures of this movie: "…MONTE" and "…ENDOME", which turn out to be found on the street corner of Del Monte and Vendome in Culver City. This documentary is bluntly intercut with commercials, a phenomenon not yet known in the Netherlands in 1979. (Theo Uittenbogaard)
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Theo Uittenbogaard Director · Piet Schreuders Writer Theo Uittenbogaard Writer
Budget $100K · First release August 26, 1979 · Produced in Netherlands
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$100,000
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VPRO
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Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep (VPRO)
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Netherlands
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English
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Dutch · English
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Netherlands · August 26, 1979
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