V032: City of Strangers: Driven into Paradise
British Broadcasting Corporation, VHS (NTSC), color (1992), 45:00
Narrated by Sam Wanamaker
Executive Producer: Diana Lashmore
Associate Producer: Sue Knussen
Produced by Ann Hummel for the BBC
Time Description 0:00 Credits 1:15 Voice over, film clip of Gold Diggers (1935) 1:40 Interview with Christopher Hampton, author of Tales from Hollywood 2:00 Quick photo of Schoenberg, one of many artists who fled Germany in the 1930s 2:16 Interview with Gottfried Reinhardt, writer and producer 2:36 Footage of Hitler and the Nazi party 3:19 Interview with Rudi Fehr, film editor 3:37 Interview with Marianne Brün, daughter of actor Fritz Kortner 3:56 Interview with Nuria Schoenberg Nono, daughter of AS 4:05 Footage of Jews leaving Europe by ship 4:20 Interview with Prof. James K. Lyon, author of Bertolt Brecht in America 4:45 Footage of Nazi book burning 5:10 Discussion of degenerate music and Ernst Krenek 5:40 Interview with Krenek 6:29 Composition in Blue (1934), animation by Oskar Fischinger 7:00 Interview with Elfriede Fischinger, artist 7:20 Discussion of Fischinger's innovations in animation; footage of his award-winning cigarette commercial, "Muratti Marches On" (1933) 8:00 Interview with Elfriede Fischinger (cont'd.) 9:00 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933), directed by Fritz Lang 9:50 Interview with Fritz Lang (filmed in 1967) 11:50 Footage of 1930s Los Angeles 12:25 Interview with Vincent Price 12:40 Elfriede Fischinger 12:50 Rudi Fehr 13:15 Footage of Hollywood 13:30 Interview with Curt Siodmak, writer 13:55 Interview with Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor 14:15 Footage of Fox studios 14:50 Interview with Neal Gabler, author of An Empire of Their Own 15:10 Footage from 1930s, discussion of Max Reinhardt's activities 15:50 A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) 16:30 Interview with Gottfried Reinhardt 17:40 Footage of Max Reinhardt's activity in the theater 18:14 Michael Tilson Thomas 18:35 Emigrés acting as film extras 18:50 Christopher Hampton 19:20 Discussion of Paul Kohner's activities 19:35 Interview with Lupita Tovar, widow of Paul Kohner 20:00 Elfriede Fischinger 21:45 Role of the screenwriter 22:20 Christopher Hampton 23:00 Warner Brothers studios 23:20 Gottfried Reinhardt 23:40 Discussion of Thomas and Heinrich Mann's activities 25:25 I Walked With a Zombie (1943), written by Curt Siodmak 26:00 Curt Siodmak on adapting to American culture 26:50 Gottfried Reinhardt on the difficulties for the older generation to adapt 27:30 Marianne Brün 28:15 Discussion of Salka Viertel's salon and her role in the emigre community 28:40 Bertolt Brecht's activities 29:10 Discussion of Arnold Schoenberg's activities 29:20 Interview with Leonard Stein 29:30 Footage of Schoenberg playing tennis with Gershwin, Malibu party 29:55 Interview with Lukas Foss, composer 30:20 Story of Schoenberg's encounter with Irving Thalberg regarding The Good Earth 30:30 Interview with David Raksin, composer 31:30 Deception (1946) 32:10 Schoenberg home movies, interview with Nuria Schoenberg Nono and with Randol Schoenberg, grandson of AS 33:30 David Raksin 34:00 Footage of Schoenberg's Rockingham home 35:50 Vincent Price on AS 36:45 Deception (1946) 37:25 Tilson Thomas on educational opportunities in LA 38:45 Hollywood in the 1930s; Gottfried Reinhardt 39:45 War footage, American anti-war propaganda 41:10 Neal Gabler 41:46 Credits 42:35 End