The internet is a wonderful thing, and every day something new appears which proves this to be so.

Recently World of Wonder  (via Boy Culture) happened upon a recent batch of videos uploaded to YouTube that are unlikely to have been seen by many in the forty six years since they were shot in and around Hollywood in the Summer of 1965.

The uploader states that these videos were given to personally by Roddy McDowall, who shot these silent films in and around Hollywood and his house on Mailbu Beach. It’s an intriguing, if a touch voyeuristic, look at the movie stars of the day just hanging out as well as the landscape of Hollywood itself.

It is certainly strange to see David O. Selznick pouring over a crossword or Ed Wynn enjoying the sunset next to the remains of a house which has fallen down the Hollywood hills but there’s so much here to explore and it is the everyday Hollywood that is fascinating. There’s  Jane Fonda and Julie Andrews lying in the sun while Lauren Bacall, Paul Newman and Natalie Wood play up to McDowall’s camera. There’s a young Anthony Perkins, five years on from Psycho, looking a little like Andrew Garfield and so much more.

Another video which captivated me was the home-movie McDowall made while filming Inside Daisy Clover with Robert Redford and Natalie Wood – it is as far removed from the usual Behind the Scenes documentaries we see as DVD extras as possible and it begs the question – what else is he going to upload?

I haven’t gone through them all yet and there are too many to post here, so here are a few which tickled me. If this is your bag then do click through to the user’s upload page where there’s a lot more where these came from.