Here's Richard Burton doing the voice over for this promotional film for THE SANDPIPER. He starts out by extensively quoting from Robinson Jeffers' poem, "The Place With No Story" and commenting on it while images of the natural beauty of the Big Sur, and a few people enjoying themselves in a hot tub, or working at their artistic tasks roll across the screen.
It's one of the efforts by MGM to get people to come to their latest big-name productions in the 1960s, after the collapse of the studio system. During the days when the major companies would turn out twenty or thirty movies a year, they had departments to produce "coming attractions" shorts of a minute or so. Now they had to go bigger to make people think a movie was an important event. Sometimes it was.
It's one of the efforts by MGM to get people to come to their latest big-name productions in the 1960s, after the collapse of the studio system. During the days when the major companies would turn out twenty or thirty movies a year, they had departments to produce "coming attractions" shorts of a minute or so. Now they had to go bigger to make people think a movie was an important event. Sometimes it was.