A rare 1953 promotional film for the Hollywood String Quartet, a group led by Felix Slatkin (Leonard Slatkin’s father) and comprised of the first-chair string players of Hollywood’s film-studio orchestras. The purpose of the film was to sell a regular program of chamber music to TV stations. The program was never produced:
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