V045: Los Angeles History Project

V045: Los Angeles History Project: Upon First Impression

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KCET Los Angeles, color (1988), 26:00.

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U-Matic (NTSC)

Broadcast 9 May 1988
Credits shown below.

Time Description

0:00 Scenes of Los Angeles, comparing various periods of the 20th century

1:00 Native Americans' habitation in southern California; impressions of 18th-century explorers; city founded in 1781 (Pueblo de Los Angeles).

3:00 America claimed California as the 31st state in 1850. Narrator describes natural barriers to development. Harbor created in 1890; Edison's motion picture machine captured town events in 1890s.

6:00 Creation of water supply, Mulholland's aquaduct. Union disagreements, battles with capitalists (Harrison Gray Otis at LA Times), bombing in 1910.

8:25 Interview with Otis Chandler, grandson of LA Times editor Harry Chandler.

9:10 Growth of LA in 1920s, ethnic diversity.

10:05 Interview with Luis Valdez, Hispanic playwright

10:50 Scenes of downtown LA, Chinese heritage

11:50 Interview with Sue Embry; she recalls Japanese internment during WWII.

13:05 Growth of LA's black community

13:50 Interview with LA mayor Tom Bradley

14:50 Émigrés from Europe came during WWII. Notable composers included Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg. Other artists included Thomas Mann and Alduous Huxley, and architect Richard Neutra.

16:10 Interview with Neutra's widow.

17:00 Early Hollywood scenes, Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, etc.

18:45 Public transportation was plentiful in first half of century. First freeways were built in 1940s. 19th-century traces slowly disappear.

20:30 Interview with artist Leo Politti, who painted many residences on Bunker Hill.

22:15 Warehouse in downtown LA with decades of LA memorabilia

22:50 Recap of themes

23:40 Credits

26:10 End

Credits
Written and produced by Jon Wilkman
Narrated by Robert Stack
Associate producers: Kerry Neal and Lill Morrison
Los Angeles History Project Manager: Margaret Bach
Project Executive: Julian Fowles
Senior Executive Producer: Tom Thompson
Executive in Charge: Stephen Kulczycki
Executive Producer: Jim Kennedy
A KCET Production
Copies of this film may be purchased through:
KCET Video
4401 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90027
(213) 668-9541

Time	Description
0:00	Scenes of Los Angeles, comparing various periods of the 20th century
1:00	Native Americans' habitation in southern California; impressions of 18th-century explorers; city founded in 1781 (Pueblo de Los Angeles).
3:00	America claimed California as the 31st state in 1850. Narrator describes natural barriers to development. Harbor created in 1890; Edison's motion picture machine captured town events in 1890s.
6:00	Creation of water supply, Mulholland's aquaduct. Union disagreements, battles with capitalists (Harrison Gray Otis at LA Times), bombing in 1910.
8:25	Interview with Otis Chandler, grandson of LA Times editor Harry Chandler.
9:10	Growth of LA in 1920s, ethnic diversity.
10:05	Interview with Luis Valdez, Hispanic playwright
10:50	Scenes of downtown LA, Chinese heritage
11:50	Interview with Sue Embry; she recalls Japanese internment during WWII.
13:05	Growth of LA's black community
13:50	Interview with LA mayor Tom Bradley
14:50	Émigrés from Europe came during WWII. Notable composers included Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg. Other artists included Thomas Mann and Alduous Huxley, and architect Richard Neutra.
16:10	Interview with Neutra's widow.
17:00	Early Hollywood scenes, Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, etc.
18:45	Public transportation was plentiful in first half of century. First freeways were built in 1940s. 19th-century traces slowly disappear.
20:30	Interview with artist Leo Politti, who painted many residences on Bunker Hill.
22:15	Warehouse in downtown LA with decades of LA memorabilia
22:50	Recap of themes
23:40	Credits
26:10	End