British Broadcasting Corporation, VHS (NTSC) color (1992), 50:00.
Director: Sue Knussen
Executive producer: Diana Lashmore
Producer: Ann HummelNotes: LA = Los Angeles; AS = Arnold Schoenberg
Time Description 0:00 Opening credits 0:50 LA cityscape at night, voice over 1:00 beach scene 1:10 various LA landmarks 1:45 Interview with "Peter Sellars, Director, Los Angeles Festival" 1:54 Helicopter view of Beverly Hills 2:04 Footage of WWII 2:24 Interview with "Anna Lee, Actress" 2:59 News clips/war footage 3:30 Interview with "Leon Askin, Actor/Director" 4:00 Interview with "Elfriede Fischinger, Artist" 4:12 News clips, voice over, 1940s film encouraging aliens to register 5:48 Interview with "Norman Lloyd, Actor/Producer" 6:59 Interview with "Nuria Schoenberg Nono, Daughter of Arnold Schoenberg" 7:33 Film clip, "Hitler's Children, 1943" 8:29 Interview with Nuria Schoenberg Nono, recounting her participation in the anti-Nazi film "Prelude to War", clips from this film 9:17 Warner Brothers studios 9:40 Interview with "Gottfried Reinhardt, Writer/Producer" 10:19 News clips, photos, film clips (anti-Nazi films made in Hollywood) 11:08 "Otto Preminger at the National Film Theatre, 1972" 11:50 Film clips/stills 12:20 Interview with Anna Lee 12:30 Clip of Hangmen Also Die (Bertolt Brecht and Fritz Lang, music by Hanns Eisler) 12:38 "Hangmen Also Die, 1943, Director: Bertolt Brecht" 12:46 Anna Lee/film clip 13:45 "North Star, 1943" 14:46 Shots of various film studios and movie posters 15:25 "Casablanca, 1942, Director: Michael Curtiz" 16:41 Fireworks, war end 17:00 Interview with "Marianne Brün, Daughter of actor Fritz Kortner" 17:28 Photo of Brecht and Kortner 17:36 LA street scenes 17:53 Berlin street scenes, photos 18:05 Marianne Brün 18:22 Berlin/Brün 18:42 Thomas Mann photo 18:58 Lion Feuchtwanger photo 19:05 "Norman Lloyd" 19:51 Schoenberg's Rockingham house 20:07 Photo of AS in late years/shots of house interior 20:23 "Nuria Schoenberg Nono" 20:45 Photos of AS composing and of his reconstructed office, music manuscript finished September 23, 1946 21:35 Nuria 21:45 Photo of AS and family 22:00 "Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor" 22:45 "Barbara Zeisl Schoenberg" 23:48 Nuria/photos of children/film footage of Schoenberg at Malibu party (see V034) 24:18 "Christopher Hampton, Author Tales from Hollywood" 24:29 Photos of Stravinsky 24:58 Michael Tilson Thomas 25:20 Christopher Hampton 25:35 Photos of Billy Wilder 25:55 Film clip of "Double Indemnity, 1944, Director: Billy Wilder" 26:43 Photos of Bertolt Brecht 27:16 Christopher Hampton/photos of Brecht 27:55 Gottfried Reinhardt 28:16 Norman Lloyd 28:58 Interview with "Prof. James K. Lyon, Author Bertolt Brecht in America" 29:30 Street scenes of Santa Monica and Hollywood 30:00 "'Hollywood Elegy': Words, Bertolt Brecht; Music, Hanns Eisler" 30:59 "The Unsuspected, 1947"; voice over discussing film noir 31:38 Cityscape, residential sprawl, industry 31:50 Interview with "Mike Davis, Author City of Quartz" 32:20 Various film clips capitalizing on LA's violent image/film noir movie posters 33:32 Interview with "Curt Siodmak, Writer" 34:10 "Double Indemnity, 1944" 35:50 Footage of McCarthy hearings 36:12 Gottfried Reinhardt 36:47 McCarthy hearings 37:11 "The Woman on Pier 13, 1949" 38:24 Marianne Brün 39:00 Gottfried Reinhardt 39:29 James Lyon (on Brecht) 41:02 Photos/footage of Hanns Eisler 41:49 Norman Lloyd 42:08 Speech by Eisler upon his deportation 42:40 LA city scenes 43:25 Michael Tilson Thomas 43:44 Photos of Schoenberg and Stravinsky 44:00 Gottfried Reinhardt 44:22 Current school/city scenes 44:45 Peter Sellars/street scenes demonstrating current multi-ethnicity of LA 45:19 LA at night 45:30 Credits 46:20 End