24th Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles in 1952

Title card: "Academy Awards!" superimposed over Oscar statue on stage at Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles / night: searchlights turn, send beams into sky; EXT Pantages Theatre with marquee touting 24th annual Academy Awards stands in background / Pantages entrance and marquee with crowd beneath; traffic and parked car in foreground / WS curtain rises on Pantages stage to reveal large Oscar statue on pedestal with rows of Oscar statuettes at either side and flowers in front as VO music and applause / man in white tie picks up Oscar statuette from display and carries it away / WS same man hands envelope to presenter Lucille Ball, who announces winner Robert Youngson for short film "World of Kids"; VO music begins / man gathers another statuette / rear shot actor Karl Malden walks up steps to stage / Malden, with back to camera, accepts award for Best Supporting Actor from presenter Claire Trevor; they walk offstage together / Oscar statue on display / SOT actress Bette Davis accepts Best Supporting Actress Oscar on behalf of Kim Hunter; she holds the hand of presenter George Sanders as she speaks, then turns to take the Oscar / New York City: marquee of Playhouse Theatre, with sign advertising Hunter and John Hodiak in "The Chase"; tilt down to cars parked on street / Hunter gets out of taxi, smiles as she walks toward theater entrance / Los Angeles: Oscar statue / man walks with Best Actor winner Humphrey Bogart to podium / Bogart receives Oscar from presenter Greer Garson / Oscar statue with statuettes nearby; pan Ronald Colman reads list of nominees for Best Actress / New York City: MS mirror with reflection of actress Vivien Leigh, in stage makeup, in her dressing room at the Ziegfeld Theatre with her husband, actor Laurence Olivier, and a radio set; rear shot Olivier turns Leigh to him and kisses her after the announcement of her win / Los Angeles: Oscar statue as stage curtain comes down in foreground and obscures it