This Is The City

Creator: Vlack Productions

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: VS downtown Los Angeles.; Pan overlooking downtown LA on smoggy (overcast) day, panning from gas tanks over industrial district east of Civic Center to Los Angeles City Hall.; Shot of railroad yards in foreground, LA City Hall in background; Pan left from Civic Center to City Hall; Static shot, City Hall with Little Tokyo neighborhood in foreground; Underexposed shot of Hollywood looking toward Hollywood Hills and Hollywood sign; Underexposed pan over Hollywood; Underexposed VS of Los Feliz or LaBrea area; VS Houses, probably in Beverly Hills (good 1950s upper-middle-class and upper-class houses); Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills, camera positioned in grassy median with traffic on either side; View down sloping street, possibly LaBrea, from north to south; Hollywood Freeway, medium traffic, seen from overhead bridge; Classic shot showing Hollywood Freeway with LA County Hall of Records, old Criminal Courts Building and City Hall in background; street-level shot of busy street, probably Wilshire Boulevard, traffic driving by camera; pan up from street to show traffic light with speaker or air raid siren mounted on top, palm trees in background; brief shot people walking, torsos and feet only, no faces