Film Info
Hollywood Talkies

Film Information

Exhibition Title	Hollywood Talkies
Original Title	Hollywood Talkies
English Title	Hollywood Talkies
Directors	Oscar Pérez Mia de Ribot
Country
Year	2011
Format	HD
Colour	Color + B&W
Duration	61'

Production:

Guión / Scriptwriter: Oscar Pérez, Mia de Ribot
Fotografía / Cinematography: Mia de Ribot
Edición / Editing: Oscar Pérez, Mia de Ribot
Producción / Producer: Oscar Pérez, Lluís Miñarro
Compañía Productora / Production Company: Eddie Saeta, Getsemani Produccions

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Synopsis

Regarded as an even lower class than Hollywood studio extras –who had their own denunciation film, Slavko Vorkapich and Robert Florey’s Expressionist classic The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra, which would make for an interest double feature– Spanish actors who were called to perform in alternative versions during the transition to sound films remain as a curious margin note in film history. Even when they starred in big budget films the very studios that made them seem uninterested in remembering. And that’s precisely what Pérez and De Ribot’s documentary tries to rescue from oblivion: the lives of all those actors and actresses who crossed over the Atlantic to work almost invisibly in the 30’s American film industry. Backed by an informative voice over and a bucolic camera that captures California’s deserted landscapes, Hollywood Talkies becomes a severe and fair portrait of a generation of artists alienated by the promise of a life just like the ones the stars used to live.