Culver City
Ever heard of Culver City? It really exists ! It is a small city somwhere in California. In Culver City the Goldwyn studios were situated, the studio responsable for great movie like the Laurel and Hardy films.
Piet Schreuder, graphic developer, artist, with a passion for Laurel and Hardy, visited the US to find te spots his heroes had filming. He made a movie about the famous stairs used in the Music Box and he visited Culver City, to reconstruct the shortest main street in the world.
In the Laurel and Hardy films Two Tars, Duck Soup and Angora Love this street is used for outdoor scenes, mostly by car, and the two heroes drive along this street while being filmed for different scenes. But if you look carefully you'll learn that this mainstreet isn't as long as the shots suggests. Piet Schreuder went to Culver City and reconstructed the fronts of the houses and shops of this 1930s main street. A great project, that was published in a small book titled The Shortest Masin Street In The World, a book I hope to find somewhere.
Enjoy a fragment from a documentary of this project.
Piet Schreuders, born in 1951, a very interesting artist, has made a lot of more interesting projects. He was also involved in the great Beau Hunks music project. Maybe he wil return in a next blog sometimes.
Keep swinging
Hans Koert
80: 24 January 1927: Washboard Blues-643260 Arkansaw Travellers
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Geniet van een stukje documentaire dat over dit project gemaakt is.
Piet Schreuders, geboren in 1951, is een heel interessant persoon en grafisch kunstenaar, die een heleboel projecten onder handen gehad heeft - Zo is hij nauw betrokken bij het Beau Hunks muziekproject, waarbij de originele filmmuziek opnieuw gespeeld werd. Hij zal vast en zeker nog wel eens langs komen in deze weblog.
Keep swinging
Hans Koert
80: 24 Januari 1927: Washboard Blues-643260 Arkansaw Travellers
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