"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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This brings back so many memories. I was just a young man with a crisp drivers license in my pocket in 1916. I drove all over LA offering free rides to young ladies. We had quite the time
Sure you did
Hey how old are you mister mike ?
I love the details of ordinary life in these! At 2:46 a sign on a building advertising “Rooms 50-75 cents a day $2-$4 a week”. Elsewhere the old style of wooden apartments (almost extinct) described in “Dragnet” radio shows are visible.
LA was larger and more developed at that time than I had known, and it had some very fine buildings. (I wonder if any of those we saw remain.)
I found the music likeable, which is something rare in a YT video with a background track. Thanks for the upload.
It's a crying shame what's been done to that city.
Great work documenting all this.
Funny cars were such an abstraction then - most folks couldn’t imagine owning one.
LA did great without cars.
Another treasure!
Santa Catalina Island is a picturesque mountainous island about thirty miles in length and twenty five miles from the California coast. Is a popular winter and summer resort, steamships making daily trips from Los Angeles 12:59
The jolly skipper of the Steamship Cabrillo gives the signal to get underway: 13:13
The harbor of Los Angeles is artificially constructed. An immense tonnage enters the port every year valued in many millions of dollars. 13:38
That last pier part was nutz. I thought that last boulder was going to hit that pylon.
Would like to see it with original, or period music.
Too bad the titles were chopped out and not restored.
Even back then it was a multiethnic city.
El Pueblo Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles.
Which song is the one playing at the start? I don't seem to be able to locate it from the ones you have listed.
California used to be No. 3 on the American continent in oil production
10:12 What?
I know!
Humanity as a whole does it ever learn anything? Human nature seems to be static but technology advances.
Never.
Here we go with the comments about how EVERYTHING was better in California back then!
Shame you are to young to have experienced a nicer existence. It was pretty good all over the planet back then.
Yup. We should just accept the criminal behavior and lower standard of living while paying the highest taxes and COL in the USA! Doh dee doh! Derr! You sound smart Brad. Duhhhhhh!
It was.
Fewer people there and elsewhere.
Lol. It does get old. Nothing stays the same. These negative noobs are such a drag.
I see the russian bots, with their terrible spelling have arrived.
Sad to see such a prosperous city and state in decline! 30 years of the Democrat (not so) Super Majority have made the once Golden State dangerous and unfriendly.
Stay out.
@@TheSteveBoyd
Spoken like a true snarky dullard.
@@TheSteveBoyd Agreeed, they want to go back to the days when the Southern Pacific ran the state and the Los Angeles Times ran the city.
@@TheSteveBoyd But then who will pay for your food stamps? Crackheads don't pay taxes!
Repubs are just as corrupt. Get off your high horse and do something if you're that upset.
Stop adding this stupid music!
Just turn the sound off if you don't like the music.