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  • Oh if only they had sound! Thank you for giving these for free.

  • @SleepingAncient You are most welcome! Actually these are time coded window dubs from the telecine masters...

    Please take a look at our channel page-

    soapbxprod

    hundreds of clips and most of our feature documentaries are there.

    we're trying to raise funds to produce a feature length documentary showcasing Roddy's footage- There is a 7 minute "rough" assembly made from it and interviews with him and Kirk Douglas- the title is:

    Hollywood 1965

    Thanks for watching!

  • soapbxprod This is amazing stuff ! Shows such a gentler time. I love the woman at the beginning with the gogo boots and bikini. Did'nt poor Roddy die of throat cancer? tragic really. Thanks so much for posting !

  • @MrDennisatthebeach Thank you for your lovely compliment! The woman at the head of the clip is Tammy Grimes, a dear friend of Roddy's- she was very famous! Actually Roddy died of lung cancer...

  • I meant to say was people want to EVIL things and most of those people who disrespect rock hudson also do the same to OBAMA conservatives hate HOLLYWOOD more then even WASHINGTON or WALL STREET call the anti-hollywood moreFAR RIGHT ugly ducklings

  • @Underdog123 Must fight the desire to generalize! Got to take each person one at a time- too easy to say "All Liberals", "All Conservatives"... like saying "All Blacks" or "All Whites"...

  • hey I like rock hudson a legend In deed live on labor day but dead OCTOBER 2nd sad when he dies sadder where he from like me CHICAGO lost the olympics 24 years after and EVIL TEA PARTY celebrates because he was homosexual and died of AIDS no mystery about his death but some have no respect for he lived I view as a devasating but nothing to change what happened.

  • @Underdog123 I'm not sure what you are saying exactly, but I love Rock Hudson too! And so does Doris Day. That's good enough for ME! :)

  • Lauren Baccall always as beautiful

  • @NeatWilliam One tough broad! She'd like that moniker I think...

  • There's no sound?

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  • @Pattyplace1 Correct. Though it baffles the mind, what we call "silent movies" often involves a lack of sound.

  • @Pattyplace1 Home movies with sound were an difficult and expensive proposition in 1965. Even for Hollywood stars. The only single system (no separate tape recorder) 16mm cameras were the Auricon or the Frezzolini, with either an optical track burner or mag head inside (you needed special mag striped film for that) and they cost a small fortune. Remember that movie cameras are mechanical. They make noise, so they have to be specially built not to...

  • It's crazy to think how he was a closeted gay man

  • @LifeOfTheParty323 Fortunately, not to his real friends- of which he had MANY!

  • Just fun! no bs, diamonds, regular folks who happen to be good actors. they like hot dogs and beer too!!

  • @windstorm1000 You got it! How democratic! AND normal! Don't you love Julie Andrews driving a Ford Falcon wagon? She won the Oscar this year- 1965- for The Sound of Music!

  • @windstorm1000 You got it! How democratic! AND normal! Don't you love Julie Andrews driving a Ford Falcon wagon? She won the Oscar this year- 1965- for The Sound of Music!

  • @soapbxprod She's great. That is George cukor, Rock and Adophe Green at the beginning.

  • @windstorm1000 That is EXACTLY RIGHT! Good eyes!

  • What year is this recorded?

  • @LaoSoftware What does the title say? Are you joking?

  • @soapbxprod : Labor Day 1965. LOL. I didn't even look at the title. Crazy me. Thanks for uploading. I love watching old movies/videos about the 1960's and 1970's. Life was simple and carefree back then.

  • @LaoSoftware Please take a look at our channel page-

    soapbxprod

    hundreds of clips and most of our feature documentaries are there.

    There is a 7 minute "rough" assembly made from Roddy's footage and interviews with him and Kirk Douglas- the title is:

    Hollywood 1965

    Thanks for watching!

    Luke Sacher

  • why they all keep sticking there tongues out,is it a freemason thing ?

  • @Da2faan LOL! maybe just a 60s thing!

  • @Da2faan It's an instinctive thing some people will do when the camera is on them for awhile. Just to be funny.

  • @calalilygirl  o i c, ty

  • These are absolutely sublime!!!!

    What a time to be in.

    Please more, just superb. Real stars of an era so gone....so sad.

    As for Natalie wood stunning!

  • @GregorHo Thanks so very much! Natalie is my ONE TRUE LOVE... with the exception of my wife- who looks a lot like Barbara Stanwyck- Guess that RJ and I have similar tastes in women! We have many other clips of Roddy's footage here on our channel, as well as a "rough" assembly titled "Hollywood 1965" that we are using to pitch a feature documentary. Almost all of our completed features are uploaded here as well. Best Wishes and Happy Holidays to you!

  • @soapbxprod I've watched them all lovingly. Are there other years apart from just 65. fascinated.

  • @GregorHo Wish there were! Roddy shot all of them that spring and summer- but he didn't give us any others... when he passed away, all of his archive was sealed for 100 years according to the dictates of his will. So we will probably never know what other treasures he captured for posterity!

  • I recognize GEORGE CUKOR, MARION MARSHALL, ROBERT 'RJ' WAGNER.

    It appears that BACALL was saying something about "that fuc*ing camera"

    What a mouth on that woman !

  • @Keltster LOL! That IS what she's saying! LMAO!

  • WHAT are Laureen Bacall and Rock saying in that one shot? Is it "Twice a week"... such goofs! love it!

  • @GinaToySculptor Here's what an anonymous fan wrote: what Lauren Bacall and Rock Hudson are saying to each other at about 2'15 in that video is the tag line from "Written on the Wind" - "What a woman tells a man - what a man tells a woman is [both turn to camera] Written on the Wind". During filming of that movie, which they both had fun on but thought was very silly, they'd start off their day doing the routine that they're doing here in the home movie.

  • @Kay2be2M Wasnt that old 16mm Kodacchrome reversal stock INCREDIBLE?

  • wish these had sound. these are amazing clips

  • @BoricuaDelight So do we! We're thinking of having a lip reader decipher all the dialogue and then bringing voice artists in to recreate/ADR all of it...

  • 1min in she says something like "must u film me with the fucking (or freaking) camera" and then it turns off. lol I think she was sincerely annoyed or jokingly being that way. regardless that was very easy to read (lip wise)

  • @BoricuaDelight Betty Bacall can be MORE that difficult! LOL

  • Wow, this one makes me really wish I could read lips, especially so because they're talking and hamming it up to the camera.

  • @VonFisch1 In fact, we are going to hire a lip reader when we start working on the feature film to be made from Roddy's footage! We have an initial rough assembly posted here on our channel titled "Hollywood 1965"- please take a look!

  • @soapbxprod  That's great! I will be looking forward to it! Thanks for all these wonderful films, how lovely of Mr. McDowall to give to you to share.

  • @VonFisch1 He was a great guy- and a good friend. Janet Leigh introduced us to him when we were making her biography for Lifetime's Intimate Portrait series. It's uploaded here on our channel- titled "Janet Leigh... A Life in Hollywood"

  • I think that's George Cukor at the beginning and at the end, heading to the Rolls Royce.

  • @riversidefan2 Yes it is! It you click on "Show More", you can see the complete description of each clip and all the tags as well!

  • The older lady in the hat. . .Natalie Schaefer from "Gilligan's Island"?

  • @fkd1963 Yes!

  • How wonderful to see the late, great George Axelrod again. I worked for him in London in the '70s when Lauren Bacall was his neighbour. Great days.

  • @MsTheid That's wonderful! Nina, George's daughter, has gotten in touch with us- we hope that she will be involved in our production of a feature length documentary using all the clips that we have uploaded here.

  • These are phenomenal. Can't quite articulate why... the silence adds a quality of 'realness' to them I think... seems to contextualise them. Compulsively going through all of your clips now. The ones with Bacall are stunning. I think what these really speak to is the intrinsic charisma of stars like Hudson & Bacall. The camera quite literally loves them, even without lighting, makeup, orchestrated mise-en-scene.

  • @eriiya09 Said it before somewhere- we are going to hire a lip reader, transcribe the dialog, and have voice artists as well as those in the footage who are still alive read the dialog to picture- called ADR...!

  • Mike Romanoff, the restauranteur , older gent with the mustache in the white mock turtleneck holding the umbrella.

  • @ARJAY1962 Way to GO! Was trying to remember who he WAS! He's in a lot of footage that I have of Frank (Sinatra) at Romanoff's! Couldn't do without all you fans- keep those cards and letters comin'!

  • Fascinating.! I was a child in Hollywood back in that time...my father was out there making movies like Camelot. Fascinating to see...I hope I get my fathers home movies one day...they make such engrossing viewing.thank you for sharing with us xx

  • @tyjeffries WOW! I will send you a private message with contact info! I was born in 1960- we might have met as toddlers! Luke Sacher (family name Biberman).

  • Good to hear! I've been watching your other documentaries and I'm very OPTIMISTIC!

  • @KalBackus Love to hear words of encouragement! Like a good director!

  • I love Lauren Bacall's eyes.

  • @cvjucla3 Don't forget the cheek bones and her jaw line!

  • @soapbxprod Very true. Thanks for uploading this excellent footage. I love looking at classic memorabilia from the past, especially scenes from my hometown of Los Angeles. Btw, I'll be going right through Malibu on Pacific Coast Highway on my way to Zuma Beach today. And I'll certainly remember your vids, while I look over at the houses along the Coast! Take care.

  • @cvjucla3 Take some PIX! Or better, an MPEG movie and upload to your YouTube page- then we all can compare then and Now!

  • @soapbxprod I may take some Pix. But today, I'm not going to be on the beach, where I could see these homes. I'll be going by on the highway. And Malibu has changed quite a bit. Most of these houses have been made into huge beach front mansions. It's also more secure now then back min the 60s, when you could just walk from the highway to these homes. Most of these homes are in private property. You can still access the beach, but it's more difficult now. I'll look into the MPEG movie player.;)

  • @cvjucla3 My little Canon Power shot takes MPEGs that can be converted by QT Player to 480p H.264 files for perfect uploading to youtube!

  • All of these clips are absolute treasures.

    I just wish there was audio. I would pay to hear what the conversation was between Lauren Bacall and Rock Hudson @2:14

  • @MalcolmCir Thank you! We are planning to employ a lip reader to reveal and transcribe what they are actually saying for the feature length documentary that we are currently working on- and to bring voice actors into the studio to record their dialog to picture- know as ADR in the industry. Won't that be a GAS?

  • @soapbxprod sounds intriguing.

  • @KalBackus we'll get everyone still alive to say their own words! Lauren comes ALIVE!

  • I love this video! It made my day! ROTFL@2:42

  • @VioletSkyOnFire It's a Time Machine!

  • @soapbxprod It certainly is a blast into the past! I wish today's movie stars were reminiscent of the old hollywood film stars. Well, at least these screen icons of a bygone era will infinitely bless society with their continued existence in our hearts and in film.

  • @VioletSkyOnFire So agree- and it's not just the nostalgia... The movies generally were better- because the scripts were better! The directors understood something more sophisticated about the human condition...

  • @soapbxprod I wholeheartedly agree! I enjoy learning about the human condition! I'm a psychology major.

  • @VioletSkyOnFire That is SUPER! Wonder if anyone today would try to make a Eugene O'Neill play into a movie! Or a Sinclair Lewis novel like Elmer Gantry! LOL

  • @VioletSkyOnFire That is SUPER! Wonder if anyone today would try to make a Eugene O'Neill play into a movie! Or a Sinclair Lewis novel like Elmer Gantry! LOL

  • @soapbxprod Hate to say it, but I've never watched the Elmer Gantry movie. LOL

  • @VioletSkyOnFire You gotta see it- Burt Lancaster and Jean Simmons are incredible. Shirley Jones won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress- beat Janet Leigh for Psycho...

  • @soapbxprod You sold me! I'll watch it! Thanks!

  • @VioletSkyOnFire Sinclair Lewis novel- can't get much better than that!

  • Really fantastic!

  • @fakeplasticjohn So happy that you enjoy it! Sorry for the duplicated Rock Hudson Labor Day sequence- we were working on it in the Avid and thought that they were two separate sequences... too late now!

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  • Wow. My father is in this video--he's the fey-looking chap in a captain's hat doing a weird Chaplinesque routine at around 2:40. Amazing for me to see. Thanks for posting!

  • @adgnyc We Must speak! We BOTH know who he was!

  • OMG!! All my friends and contemporaries. Now almost all gone!! BTW, who's the blonde w/ the bandana beside Rock? Is that Carroll Baker? I didn't remember her being there?

  • @mylesag2 We know her- we just can't remember- will have her name by the end of today!

  • This is so awesome! I feel like i'm there. Thanks for posting!

  • @judithlightrox fully copyrighted and monetized with YouTube! Please pass on- more clicks mean more bread on our table! THANK YOU so much for your kind praise!

  • These movies are incredible. I can't stop watching. I feel like I'm witnessing something special.

  • @AngelinNicole Never seen before, and we have exclusive copyright! Locked up for 100 years, as stipulated in Roddy's will!

  • These are amazing. Thanks so much for posting them. I'm watching them all. Wow, so this one would have been 46 yrs ago today. They all looked so young, tan, and happy.

  • @AtlantaLPC More coming as we speak! THANKS! Stay tuned to soapbxprod for more Summer of 1965 magic!

  • thank you so much for sharing these... they are amazing and quite historical!

  • @FunnEGirlZ Thank you! All of our clips are copyrighted and monetized- we are in partnership with YouTube! They are all free to viewers, we make money per click- please recommend them to your friends- more clicks mean more bread on the table, and a greater chance of being able to produce a feature length television program titled "Hollywood 1965"- there is a rough assembly here on our channel page with Roddy speaking on camera in Janet Leigh's dining room!

  • @soapbxprod I agree, I love this old footage. I found some old super 8s in my father's locker after he passed and am getting them digitized.

  • @imajeepster This is all 16mm Kodachrome reversal stock! That's Tammy Grimes at the head of the clip.

  • What an awesome collection of history you have! : )

  • @1bol390 Thank you!

  • Who is that at 1:49 ?

  • @HryMuscle THAT... is ROBERT WAGNER!

  • @soapbxprod Dam, he was HOT!

  • @eddy909100 No kidding- I'm as straight as an arrow, and I can't resist him!

  • Is that Mrs. Howell from Gilligan in yellow? These are fascinating.

  • @roblettinVa Natalie Schafer! Yes!

  • @soapbxprod it's hard to believe Natalie Shaffer was in her 60s! She was so youthful and slim.

  • @imajeepster She live a long life- great genes!

  • @soapbxprod i know, she was in her 90s when she died!

  • @imajeepster What a tough lady... and she left her entire estate to her dogs!

  • @soapbxprod My Grandfather, Abner Biberman, directed her in episodes of Gilligan's Island.

  • @soapbxprod that's so interesting!

    she seemed so young for her age, i thought she had to be in her 40s at the time.

  • Where's Henry Willson ?

  • @torchsonglover Beats me! LOL!

  • This kind of document justifies the very existence of Youtube. If there's a motion picture made of these, I 'll run to the theater to see it and I 'll be the first to buy the dvd.

    Plus, I love Roddy Mc Dowall .

  • @torchsonglover Most likely it will be a TV documentary- give us a year or so! Thanks for your kind words!

  • @soapbxprod While I am excited at the prospect of seeing your eventual documentary, I can't help but wonder if these films are more powerful in their raw, silent form than they will be with some narrator talking over them in shortened and edited form. The nature of TV seems to be not to know when to shut up and let the images do the (powerful) talking, be it news footage or sports or whatever. These silent home movies are fascinating and powerful.

  • @DynapubsA I beg to differ! We have a library of interviews with virtually all the major stars of the era- Kirk Douglas' and Roddy's personal insights are primary source material. They lived it, so they know what it was like then. We're not going to make some cheesy love letter! The offline assembly is only a preliminary- it will probably take two to three years to make the final feature- as it did with our biography The Rat Pack. Also, we work under contract. So we must satisfy our backers.

  • @DynapubsA Of course, if you would like to hand us seven figures, we'll be happy to make it to your specifications!

  • 2:17 love this- Bacall said in an interview that she and Rock would often send up the "soapiness" of 'Written in the Wind'- this is a fine example of them doing this! 

  • @KalBackus That's what Robert Stack said when we shot his interview!

  • glory days of Hollywood

  • funny how everyone sticks their tongue out when being filmed...even the pros...Betty Bacall has it goin on! this is great...

  • @cherylbeee I KNOW! Hilarious! :))! So democratic! Where did we lose our way?

  • God, I love your footage.  Your channel is incredible

  • @ezywonder Much thanks! Enjoy it all... more to come!

  • Wow what year was this?

  • @SamLuvsJamesDean Says in the title- click on the Show More label... all from the Summer of 1965...

  • @soapbxprod Thank you! =)

  • @SamLuvsJamesDean And to you!

  • I put a link to your video on our fan website :) Guess you'll get some views through it either.

    Many thanks once more

    You can see it at therockhudsonproject (dot ) com

  • @isavigy Thanks to YOU! Don't be a stranger! :)

  • Wow ! Many many thanks for sharing this gem ! Rock Hudson is so cute in this video !

  • @isavigy You are so welcome! Viva Old Hollywood!

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