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A241 Universal Studios Packet 1
| VIEW-MASTER REEL ONE Cover Picture—Tour Entrance Visitors Board GlamorTram Masks in Make-up Dept. Lucille Ball's Dressing Room Special Effects "Magic" Inside a Haunted Castle Indoor "Outdoor" Western Scene VIEW-MASTER REEL TWO Rear Screen Projection Eerie Hitchcock Dummies Cover Picture—Old World City Streets Giant-sized Telephone A Prop Plaza Waterfall Old-time Stagecoach A "Ride" in a Model T VIEW-MASTER REEL THREE Realistic Snow Scene Singapore Lake Waterfront Prop Man Plays "Hercules" Spooky "Psycho" House "Spartacus" Courtyard Universal City Panorama Cover Picture—Frankenstein Monster Sample from A241 Booklet Universal Studios Entertainmentland, a wonderful Never- Never Land of magical make-believe scenes, is a place where one can literally go "around the world" without leaving Cal- ifornia. Whatever the script calls for: a bustling city, an open, lonely Western range, a rip-roaring frontier town, or a palm-decked South Sea island. Universal Studios has it. Lieutenant Columbo may be tracking down a dangerous criminal through big city streets while, a short distance away, a fast-drawing Western sheriff is searching a remote canyon for a hard-riding holdup man. Spartacus attacked the march- ing Roman legions on the same back road where Indians have ambushed stage coaches on the Overland Trail. Appropriately enough for Southern California, the parcel of land on which Universal Studios now sits was once owned by a Spanish grandee. It was called El Rancho Cahuenga de Ramires. When Universal purchased the 260-acre property in 1914, however, it was a chicken ranch. • Universal subsequently produced hundreds of famous movies on the ranch. Some of the old props remain, one of which is the stage of "Phantom of the Opera," in which Lon Chaney starred. Jerome Kern's "Show Boat" was filmed on the same lake as "McHale's Navy." Tom Mix, Hoot Gibson, Buck Jones, and Harry Carey "rode off into the sunset" in "Killer Canyon" where today's TV Westerns are made. In the early days the studio boasted 45 pictures a year, whereas the revamped movie and television "city," which has ETC ETC |
