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