"LOS ANGELES" 1916 FORD MOTOR CO. & EDISON CO. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA TRAVELOGUES 17334

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This historic silent film "Los Angeles: A visit to American cities" was produced in 1916 by the Ford Motor Company as part of the Ford Educational Weekly, a free weekly filmic magazine. It introduces viewers to Los Angeles which had a population of around 500,000 at the time. It contains footage of old Los Angeles landmarks such as the Clunes Auditorium, Broadway, UCLA, the Angels Flight, and the El Pueblo district.

This film is packaged with three short silent films of California shot by the Edison Studios in 1898 and one from 1901. Edison Studios was founded by Thomas Edison in 1894 and made over 1,000 films, mainly short films.

(00:21) Los Angeles: A visit to American Cities with the Ford Educational Weekly. Produced by the Ford Motor Company.
(01:19) The Clunes Auditorium
(01:55) Hall of Records and the old Court House
(02:32) Broadway in downtown Los Angeles
(03:00) Cars and people move at the corner of Seventh and Broadway
(03:20) Clunes Auditorium (demolished in 1985), home to both the performing arts and the Temple Baptist Church
(03:39) People stroll in Central Park, now known as Pershing Square
(04:23) Department stores in Los Angeles' retail district
(04:43) Herald Examiner Building
(04:52) Angels Flight Incline Railway and the Third Street Tunnel
(05:14) The campus of the University of California, Los Angeles aka UCLA
(05:35) California Hospital
(06:12) Men walk in Chinatown
(06:57) Olvera Street, also known as Calle Olvera, in El Pueblo de Los Angeles
(07:34) The historic "Old Plaza Church" or La Iglesia de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles
(07:57) North Hill Street Double Barreled Tunnel
(08:55) People stroll through Los Angeles parks
(09:48) Los Angeles used pipes to bring water to the city from nearby mountains
(10:23) A car drives on the large pipe
(10:39) Bungalow houses are quintessential California architecture
(11:49) Oil wells, probably in Venice area
(12:28) Busy automobile and pedestrian traffic on Broadway
(12:58) The End
(13:08) People get on a boat towards Santa Catalina Island near Los Angeles
(13:47) The boat departs from the harbor
(14:57) Hotel Stamford, also known as the Stamford House, in Avalon on Santa Catalina Island
(15:34) Passengers disembark in Avalon
(16:46) At Cawston Ostrich Farm, located in South Pasadena,, a man feeds ostriches named after President Wilson and his wife. They ride on the ostriches.
(17:56) A film produced by Edison Studios (owned by Thomas Edison) shows South Spring Street in Los Angeles in 1898. People ride carriages and trolleys.
(19:29) This Edison production shows a view of California orange groves in 1898.
(20:06) This Edison shows people picking oranges in a grove, a man falls off his ladder.
(20:52) Another Edison short film, this one from 1901, features the construction of a harbor at San Pedro.

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