Official Universal Studios Hollywood Studio Tour and Theme Park History (1984)
Official Universal Studios Tour (Hollywood) video from 1984.
Chapters
0:00 Welcome
0:14 Studio Tour
0:55 Battle of Galactica
2:45 Burning House
3:16 Front Lot - Sound Stages
3:44 Bungalow of Edith Head
4:24 Special Effects Stages (Stage 32)
7:01 Prop Warehouse
7:22 Universal Backlot
7:29 Brownstone Street
7:47 New York Street
8:08 Collapsing Bridge
9:38 Prop Plaza / Hollywood Terrace
10:03 Flash Flood
11:09 Mexican Street
11:27 Western Streets
12:35 Torpedo Attack
13:17 Parting of the Red Sea
14:28 Little Europe
15:20 Courtyard of Miracles
15:29 The Runaway Train
15:55 JAWS
17:54 Colonial Street
18:49 Psycho House / Bates Motel
19:18 Ice Tunnel
21:00 Universal's History
22:21 The Universal Amphitheatre
22:56 Motion Picture and Television Museum
23:30 Screen Test Comedy Theatre
25:20 Animal Actor's Stage
25:59 The Stunt Show
26:57 The Adventures of Conan a Sword and Sorcery Spectacular
30:19 Promo
Theme park timeline:
July 15, 1964 - Universal Studios Tour opens.
March 28, 1965 - Visitor’s Entertainment Center built (Special Effect Stages).
1967 - The Universal Tour Entertainment Center (Upper Lot) is opened to start the Studio Tram Tour.
1968 - Flash Flood opens.
1970 - Animal Actors Stage opens.
1971 - Torpedo Attack / Submarine opens.
1973 - The parting of the Red Sea opens. The Burning House set opens.
1974 - Collapsing Bridge opens.
1975 - The “Land of 1000 Faces Make-Up Show” opens in the Castle Theatre. The Runaway Train opens. The Ice Tunnel / The Glacier Avalanche / Doomed Glacier Expedition opens. (inspired by the Clint Eastwood movie The Eiger Sanction.)
April 10, 1976 - Jaws Experience opens.
1977 - The Screen Test Theater opens.
1978 - Airport ’77 opens (Screen Test Comedy Theater).
1979 - Battle of Galactica attraction opens.
1980 - The Castle Dracula show opens.
1981 - Womphoppers & Fung Lum restaurants open (CityWalk Hollywood).
1982 - Universal Amphitheater reopens.
November 29, 1983 - The Adventures of Conan: Sword and Sorcery Spectacular opens.
1984 - The A-Team Live Action Stunt Show opens. K.I.T.T., the talking car from Knight Rider, begins in the Entertainment Center.
Keywords
Motion Picture
Buck Rogers
Space Ship
Dinosaur Models
Animation
Special Effects
1941 Models
Amusement Park
Presentation
Demonstration
Tour Group
Audience
Park Guests
Warner Bros. Studios
Burbank
Prop Warehouse
Property Department
Backlot
Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
The Sting (1973)
Earthquake (1974)
Torn Curtain (1966)
Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
Streets of Fire (1984)
Old Bridge
Photography
The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)
Moving Backdrop
Rainstorm
Mechanical Falling Tree
Water Pumps
Livery Stable
My Little Chickadee (1940)
Facade
6 Points Texas
Western Town
Bank
Sheriffs' Office
Saloon
Silent Movies
Tom Mix
Hoot Gibson
John Wayne
James Stewart
Western Movies
Ivy Glen
Shenandoah (1965)
Extras / Background Actors
Submarine
The Ten Commandments (1923 & 1956)
Cecil B. DeMille
European Streets / Little Europe
Village
Jardin de Fleur / Flower Garden
Geschlechc Buchen / Gender Book
Kino Geschlecht / Cinema Sex
Scharlini Cigars
Frankenstein's Monster
Dracula
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Cobblestone Streets
Amity Island
Jaws (1975)
Great White Shark
The Orca, Boat
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
The Munsters
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)
Exterior Filming
Leave It to Beaver (1957)
Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969)
The Hardy Boys (1977)
Doris Day
Theodore "the Beaver" Cleaver
Deanna Durbin
Bedtime for Bonzo (1951)
Ronald Reagan
Psycho (1960)
Alfred Hitchcock
Psycho II (1983)
Timberline Ranger Station
Chains Required
Bleachers
Watching Movies Being Made
Comedies, Dramas, Westerns
North Hollywood
Studio City
Black Tower
The Producers Building
FotoZine
Film Cameras
Bank Robbery
Mechanical Horses
Scenery
Fly Ace
Videotape
Pie Fight
Davidson's Bakery
Gary Gero's Birds and Animals Unlimited
Fist Fights
Silver Slipper Saloon
Quicksand
Rope
General Store
Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Rain Curtain
Pyrotechnics
Laser
Wizards and Warriors
Stage Show
Gymnastics
Sword Play
Fire Breathing Dragon
Fight Sequences
Red Sonja
The Magic of the Movies
Actor
Actress
Performer
Director
Cameraman
It's The Movies
We'll See You In The Movies
Taglines
Credits
Ellis Sawyer - Photography
Robert D. Ellis - Script
FOTO-KEM - Film Processing
Bill Finley, Sandra Armenta - Video Editing
Sin's Animation Service - Negative Cutting
United Video - Video Transfer
FOTO-TRONICS - Titles
United Color Lab - Optical Effects
Eastman Kodak - Film Stock
© 1984 Universal City Studios, Inc. All rights reserved.
(www.universals...)
Posted for entertainment and educational purposes only.
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I wish I was born earlier and able to go on this version of the studio tour. Love your videos. Please keep posting.
@cowmissing
4 жыл бұрын
We will. Thank you for commenting. It’s why we do this. We have tons more to come so subscribe so you know when we push them out. Thanks again.
@vfxing_gamez7934
7 ай бұрын
I’m sad 😔 time flys the studio tour is nothing now compared to back then 😢💔
Thank you so much for this. I just recently lost my Grandmother, and I have been going down memory lane and I remember going here in 1985 and this takes me right back to that time.
@cowmissing
3 жыл бұрын
Sorry for your loss. Glad we were able to help. Stay strong.
@JennasMusic76
Жыл бұрын
@@cowmissing I'm so sorry I'm just now seeing this, I came back to relive it again, and saw your comment, it was meant to be. Thank you for such a sweet comment. It has been very hard, but videos, and memories like this make it better, thank you for your kind words.
@vfxing_gamez7934
7 ай бұрын
So sorry for your lost may your grandma rest in piece next to mines and our lost ones 😢🕊️
What an awesome time. My cousin and I got to do the Buck Rogers screen test, my Mom did the wall table, another cousin did the E.T. bike. Best era ever at Universal.
I remember being about ten years old. It was 1986 and I was wearing a bright red t shirt with a discreet Australian flag print. I was waving furiously when they asked for volunteers for the screen test. Thankfully they picked me. The plane gently flipped myself and another audience member over while we waved at the camera. We were wearing striped prisoner garbs. I remember watching the finished product- along with a cheering audience- on the big screen. Beautiful memories. I once had the video casette of this, though I have no idea where it is. Still, the magic was palpable: a crowd of strangers felt like a family. I was officially in love with cinema! Thank you for sharing this stunning time capsule.
@cowmissing
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing as well. We have more videos like this on our channel, please enjoy.
I did this tour in 1980. It was a blast as a kid!
@Gabriel-gv1mx
2 жыл бұрын
Likewise. I had a video tape of the screen test, though I have no idea where it is now. Very fond memories; it was the next best thing to being IN the movies.
I remember watching this video as a kid and being completely fascinated with universal.
I'm reading the comments and that's so bloody cool that so many of you got to experience this live and direct! I was born in '83 so yeeeeaaaah I couldn't have enjoyed it.
@cowmissing
2 жыл бұрын
So cool!
Fantastic! Thank you so much for sharing this amazing piece of theme park history.
i remember all of that!! what made universal great was the shows and entertainment! the studio tour was amazing!
Universal Studios in the 1980s. Cool
Thank you so much for posting this!!! I remember going to Universal Studios on my 6th birthday in 1985. People don’t believe me when I tell them that you used to get off the tram midway through the tour to do the special effects demonstration. Also, the live TV show filming was something I thought was so cool back then. Great video!
Wow, great memories, went on this tour for the first ime in '87, and I remember seeing the Back to the Future lot, it was amazing.
@cowmissing
2 жыл бұрын
The 80’s were great times at USH.
Thank you for posting this historical video. The parks tried a lot harder back in the 1980s. Now they just want to cash in on rides
Groovy. Like that the shark can walk on it's fins.
I remember the rolling rocks during the tram tour! I miss the old Universal!
Great upload! Thanks for the memories!
@cowmissing
4 ай бұрын
A different time for sure. Glad you enjoyed it.
i remember going here in the late 60s/early 70s. all i remember as a highlight was the area covered with foam boulders you could pick up. julie is a tepid hostess, but maybe we'll luck out and get to see them filming "small wonder"
Wow. This is just so amazing to see how far we've come. Thank you so much
That was the year I first visited there.
I remember this tour ... I remember taking the tour back in the early 1970's
Wow that brought back some good memories
@cowmissing
4 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
I rode the Studio Tour Tram on my 9th birthday!
I loved the collapsing bridge - forgot about the parting of the sea.
Omg I loved this I worked during this time stage 30/32 back stage what fun !!!!♡♡♡ thank you for posting this ♡♡♡
@cowmissing
Жыл бұрын
You're welcome!!
Yooooooo this was soooooo cool!😁💯👍🏾 Wish this was still a thing!
Universal Pictures' 1964 Box Office: 1. Man's Favorite Sport? (1964) Box Office: $581.2 million 2. The Chalk Garden (1964) Box Office: $314.8 million 3. Wild and Wonderful (1964) Box Office: $193.7 million 4. Marnie (1964) Box Office: $678.9 million 5. Send Me No Flowers (1964) Box Office: $884.3 million 6. Father Goose (1964) Box Office: $1.211 billion Total Earnings: $3.9 billion
Omg! Thanks for the memories 😭🥰🌟
I really hope Universal reopens Collapsing Bridge for the 60th Anniversary
The red sea is going to be a building now.
I got to do the audience portion of Buck Rodgers as a kid...
Wish I had a time machine and relive these memories
Ahh, I remember that battlestar galatica tunnel :) I just went on the tour last week. Doesn’t have the same charm as it used to, they should have left in the bridge and a few other of these old set pieces. Ugh, and why remove that Conan show? It was awesome! Would much prefer that over some crap like the minions ride.
i cant believe 1984 was 40 years ago. 40 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol
Universal should recreate this for a special event
Was there in 85
@sallylea1
2 жыл бұрын
Me too!!
I went there in December 1978, I just watched this to refresh my memory, some of the stuff was a bit different and some has faded from memory.
Some of these attractions are gone. How sad.
yo, manny, ever see a cylon come apart like that?
Vintage, cool !
I would guess that this is post ET pre Back to the Future.
@cowmissing
3 жыл бұрын
Post ET? No way, the ET Adventure opened in 1991.
@hamursh
3 жыл бұрын
@@cowmissing I meant in terms of movies. I know that ET Adventure opened in 1991 and Back to the Future opened in 1993. This was more like Post Conan Pre Miami Vice
2:08 is a 100 times better than the "star wars" rise of the resistance ride 🤣
unfortunately, the hanging rope in the mae west and w.c. fields' 1940 film my little chickadee is gone. i was curios as to if it was still there after all these years, so i had a friend drive by yesterday (march 1, 2024) the livery stable, and he confirmed the rope is no longer there.
@cowmissing
5 ай бұрын
Yes, it's gone. kzread.info/dash/bejne/iqt63MaEhbPFn7Q.htmlsi=RZBYJ3wlKjVHe1uG&t=1819
@painin2teeth
4 ай бұрын
Sad. I always look for the old ones
It was great tour for it day I understand it sucks now
Look out for the train 15:41
Miss it when it was just a studio tour & shows…..now just trying to be another theme park
The Conan show was awesome., They really need to do a new Conan movie and do it right like the first movie...The one with James Earl Jones as Thulsa Doom. The first movie was the best. The one with Wilt Chamberlain not so much..
Found all music used in this video. Capitol Production Music/Ole Georg Music - The Happy Joker by Ole Georg [PSE-17] 17 - Phantom Raiders by Axel Simone [MMSE-34] 39 - The Unknown by Axel Simone [MMSE-34] 39 - Caprice by Ole Georg [MMSE-27] 35 - Space Clowns by Roger Webb [MMSE-7] 18 - The Happy Joker by Ole Georg [PSE-17] 17 - Youth Parade by Ole Georg [PSE-17] 17 - Early Happy Days # 1 by Peter Vanderlohren [MMSE-28] 12 - Danger by Axel Simone [MMSE-34] 39 - The Happy Joker by Ole Georg [PSE-17] 17 Southern Library of Recorded Music - Abject Terror by Paul Lewis [MQ 776/MQ/LP 5] Capitol Production Music/Ole Georg Music - Live And Learn # 8 by Peter Vanderlohren [MMSE-28] 12 - The Unknown by Axel Simone [MMSE-34] 39 - Live And Learn # 8 by Peter Vanderlohren [MMSE-28] 12 - Saturday Night In Town by Robert Ascot [MELS-4] Release No. 11, Record No. 4 - Live And Learn # 8 by Peter Vanderlohren [MMSE-28] 12 - The Happy Joker by Ole Georg [PSE-17] 17 - Early Happy Days # 2 by Peter Vanderlohren [MMSE-28] 12 - Space Battle by Axel Simone [MMSE-34] 39 - Headliner by Wolfgang Städele [MMSE-24] 14
@cowmissing
Жыл бұрын
Great find, how did you reference this?
@rwinger2481
Жыл бұрын
@@cowmissing Listened to the tracks themselves. These are the album IDs
@cowmissing
Жыл бұрын
I understand, how did you reference them? Did you compose the music? What year is this from?
🌎 universal
Lol @20:18 they reuse the exact crowd reaction sound effect. Ha ha did they think we wouldn't notice. Lol it was harder to rewind in the 1980s
@cowmissing
3 жыл бұрын
LOL, A lot of the same footage was used over and over in later videos. Good eye! 🤓
they should resurrect the collapsing bridge or part the red sea effects on the current studio tour it’s kinda lost its touch in today’s tour offerings
@cowmissing
11 ай бұрын
The Collapsing Bridge still exists, just not used. Its right behind King Kong 360:3D.
@Spacemountaineer92
11 ай бұрын
@@cowmissing i know i just we were able to drive over it again ohh well
Where is King Kong?
@cowmissing
3 ай бұрын
King Kong opened in 1986.
I went there when it opend an none of the rides worked I wanted to go in!