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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
Noir and the Dictaphone.
http://filmcityla.blogspot.com/2014/...nity-1944.html
" A car races through the dark, hazy streets of Los Angeles. It stops in front of an office building on Olive Street, a man gets out,
staggers into the lobby, gets into an elevator, gets out, enters an office, sits down at a dictaphone, and begins to record
a sordid story about lust, adultery, greed, and murder---as blood slowly seeps through his shirt."
http://www.glamamor.com/2012/01/cine...-stanwyck.html
1940 Dictaphone Ad.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1940-Ad-Dict...-/331167776501
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Looking west on 5th Street at Pershing Square, Double Indemnity, 1944
Opening credits to Double Indemnity, Walter Neff at speed east bound on 5th
closes on a Los Angeles Railway Corp Maintenance crew. Hard to believe these
little smudge pots were all we had for caution lights back in the day. These
guys are making a welding repair to a rail across from the Philharmonic
Auditorium (out-of-frame on the right) and Pershing Square (out-of-frame on
the left) with the Hotel San Carlos over there on the right, with the Coca Cola
sign, and just the corner of the Biltmore over here on the left. In the distance
we can make out the sign atop the Monarch Hotel on the NW corner of 5th and
Figueroa and the taller, anonymous, Architects Building, the dark sentinel on
the left side of 5th behind the Biltmore.
Paramount Pictures, Billy Wilder, 1944
Walter Neff near miss at Olive and 6th, 1944
Walter Neff, wounded and bleeding, skids his Plymouth coupe through the
intersection of 6th Street (runs right to left) and Olive, with the re-designed
Philharmonic in the background north of Pershing Square on 5th Street, barely
missing a Los Angeles Times distribution truck.
Double Indemnity, Billy Wilder, Paramount Pictures (1944)