Vintage 1940 Backstage Florentine Gardens Hollywood 3D Tru-Vue Film Strip Nude

Description

Vintage 1940 Backstage Florentine Gardens Hollywood 3D Tru-Vue Film Reel 1304 Stereoview Burlesque
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I have been collecting 3D media for the last 30 years and finally decided it's time to part ways with some of my favorite things. This is one of the hardest to find and most desirable Tru-Vue films ever made. In all my years of collecting, I have only found just a few copies of this reel. (Please see my other listings for the other hard to find key reels)
"BACKSTAGE AT THE FLORENTINE  featuring Hollywood's Loveliest Girls which are truly the pick of Feminine Pulchritude!"
For more information on this venue, please read below.This 3D reel is pretty risque for the times and does show nudity. It is a set of views that rival company, View-Master, would never have done... It is definitely one of the more rare films and turns up less often than the Sally Rand Nude / Dude Ranch 3Ds taken at the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago. Don't pass this one up, cause you probably wont see another!
Condition:
The film strip
is in excellent condition. It also includes the original insert. I have personally gone through the film with white gloves to inspect every frame and every film cog of the 14 paired stereo images. All are perfect!
For those interested in viewing these I would suggest pulling them slowly through the viewer rather than using the advance. This is how the cogs get torn.
The box
has all flaps attached but does have just the smallest amount of shelf wear, which is awesome for a small box that has been around for almost 74 years.  I have tried my best to photograph every aspect of the box and film. Please check them out and if you have any questions, please email!
Thanks for looking!
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About the Florentine Gardens in Hollywood:
Search youtube for "The Florentine Gardens"  a Larry Harnisch video
and from the dearoldhollywood blog:
Florentine Gardens, 5955 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood
In the late 1930s and 1940s radio was huge in Hollywood. Stations were located all over town - up and down Vine Street, Sunset Boulevard and Hollywood Boulevard. The radio stations brought a large crowd into Hollywood and at night that crowd needed a place to party. There were many clubs and entertainment joints that popped up around Hollywood and one of them was the Florentine Gardens on Hollywood Boulevard.
Opening in 1938, the Florentine Gardens was a dinner theater. The cost back then was .50 and an audience would get some Italian food, partially nude girls, an emcee, dancers, a singer and more. Whereas the Sunset Strip featured many upscale nightspots, Hollywood had more of the working class nightspots and the Florentine Gardens was one of them.
Various performers made appearances at the Florentine Gardens including such big acts as the Mills Brothers and Sophie Tucker. Yvonne DeCarlo, or more famously known as Lily Munster, from the 1960s television show The Munsters, started as a chorus girl at the Florentine Gardens. And another interesting tidbit - when Norma Jean Baker, just 16 years-old, married Jim Dougherty, the wedding party celebrated at Florentine Gardens. Of course Norma Jean did not stay married to Dougherty for long. She eventually moved on with her life and became the big star Marilyn Monroe. She would have many different and more notable lovers after Dougherty.
Business wasn't always good at the Florentine Gardens but in the early 1940s, with WWII going on, many servicemen could be found in Hollywood. It's no surprise that these young men would find the affordable and at times sleazy entertainment of the Florentine Gardens attractive. These servicemen kept the business coming for the Florentine Gardens. But, of course this didn't last. In 1948, the Florentine Gardens went bankrupt. It later reopened as the Cotton Club and ran for a few more years as a place for black performers but the Cotton Club would also struggle. Today the building still stands and is a nightclub featuring live groups and D.J.s.
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