"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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@ryanfoster9863 2 месяца назад

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.

@robertargel8639 Месяц назад

LA and California are incredible places with incredible histories.

@dixonpinfold2582 2 месяца назад

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.

@user-mp7gr6gu7k 2 месяца назад

I wonder what kind of music is playing. If anyone knows, please write!?

@dixonpinfold2582 2 месяца назад

@@user-mp7gr6gu7k It's all listed in the description box.

@weylguy Месяц назад

I worked at South Spring Street in the 1990s, and a lot of the old buildings were still standing. As a silent film fan, I always wondered what it would be like to travel back in time and see old Los Angeles as it was then.

@WeberWeberstown-s7m Месяц назад

I'm a silent films fan as well.

@drunkmike6364 2 месяца назад

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

@vito7428 2 месяца назад

Sure you did

@brucenicholls213 2 месяца назад

Hey how old are you mister mike ?

@MarinCipollina 2 месяца назад

So what are you now? 125 ?

@ronsanchez6992 Месяц назад

So, even if the state issued a driver's license at age 16, that would make you about 108 yrs old. Congratulations, you've seen a lot Sad to see what L.A. has become.

@JPVillalobos27 Месяц назад

Wow so you’re like over 120 years old!

@Porsche996driver 2 месяца назад

Great work documenting all this. Funny cars were such an abstraction then - most folks couldn’t imagine owning one.

@DiogenesOfCa 2 месяца назад

LA did great without cars.

@davidfruechting7771 Месяц назад

@Porsche996driver And, they shouldn't have been sucked into that corporate scam. They should have required their elected representatives and councilmembers to upgrade, expand, and preserve what was the finest and most extensive public transportation system in the world. Imagine what it could be today if they/we had done so. Perhaps then, too, more of this wonderfully fertile soil of the Los Angeles River alluvial plain would still be growing food for the population. Let me be clear, though, that I do enjoy driving -- however, more so when the traffic wasn't so massive and rude.

@ronsanchez6992 Месяц назад

Would have liked to see more of the houses up on Bunker Hill. My mother's family rented in one of the tenement houses on Bunker Hill in 1917, she was 8 yrs.old. The city and the relationship of its citizens to it, seems to have undergone a devolution rather than evolution 😢.

@nlpnt 2 месяца назад

575,000 people is, in present-day terms, a little more than Des Moines. City of LA's current population is 3.8 million with the metro area at 18.4 million, the largest metro area in America entirely within one state since greater NYC spills over into New Jersey and Connecticut.

@moe92870 2 месяца назад

That last pier part was nutz. I thought that last boulder was going to hit that pylon.

@leeakers4525 2 месяца назад

Would like to see it with original, or period music.

@MarinCipollina 2 месяца назад

This predates sound with motion pictures. There was no "original" music to be had. These are some of the earliest films of Los Angeles in existence.

@brickman409 Месяц назад

@@MarinCipollina While there was no sound synced with the film in the silent era, music almost always would have been played while the film was presented to an audience. Either live music, or recorded. They had recorded audio back then, but they just had no way to sync it to film, so dialogue would have been impossible and sound effects would have been difficult. But music didn't really need to be perfectly synced with a video. So that's why silent films like Metropolis had an official soundtrack, despite being a silent film. The term silent film is kind of a misnomer in that sense.

@TJChillyWilly Месяц назад

Such a treasure of a video.

@jeffs869 Месяц назад

i didnt realize they had such chill music back then! lol

@donaldhookstead6991 2 месяца назад

Another treasure!

@DerGlaetze Месяц назад

Simply, paradise lost.😢

@loumontcalm3500 2 месяца назад

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

@ronsanchez6992 Месяц назад

@loumontcalm3500 I loved going to Catalina on the steamship SS CATALINA I'd go with my cousins of which three of their mothers jointly owned a house there on Whitley st. When the ship would dock, we'd swim out and tread water at the bow and call out to the passengers above, "Throw a coin! Throw a coin! Then they'd toss down a nickle or dime to watch us kids dive down to fetch it, once I chased a nickle all the way to the bottom, then realized I was 30 ft. under water and needed to take my next breath. That was the day I almost drowned. Fond memories. Oh, and it's 26 miles across the sea, Santa Catalina is waiting for me..

@addicted2baseballrgd21 Месяц назад

Thanks I was just going to comment on why they kept editing the verbage out. I was also trying to figure out what park that was at 8:40 but I couldn't pause it on time. Just wasn't lining up

@apm2 Месяц назад

Excellent video. Makes me question the narrative of mainstream history

@genevieveelaine221 2 месяца назад

It's a crying shame what's been done to that city.

@nlpnt 2 месяца назад

The entire Valley in 1916 was still orange groves, and if the housing that had been knocked down to build the freeways was still around it'd be highly trendy and sought-after.

@laserbeam002 2 месяца назад

It's a crying shame what has been done to many our cities. Chicago and atlanta another example

@user-wh3pr3zv1k 2 месяца назад

Too bad the titles were chopped out and not restored.

@Stacie45 23 дня назад

The introduction has a glitch. The city was arguably founded in 1781, as stated. And it had a population of roughly 575,000 in 1916, when this film was made. But it gained that population over 135 years, not 35 years as stated.

@feralcatbrothers 2 месяца назад

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.

@R32R38 2 месяца назад

Even back then it was a multiethnic city.

@-oiiio-3993 2 месяца назад

El Pueblo Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles.

@thomassecurename3152 2 месяца назад

Humanity as a whole does it ever learn anything? Human nature seems to be static but technology advances.

@danorthsidemang3834 2 месяца назад

Never.

@ginoperretta373 2 месяца назад

California used to be No. 3 on the American continent in oil production

@user-mp7gr6gu7k 2 месяца назад

And who is in 1st and 2nd place?

@ronsanchez6992 Месяц назад

...so it's crazy that California has the highest priced gas ⛽️

@Imtheverdant1 Месяц назад

Could you imagine wearing the same style and color clothing as your neighbor and the guy down the street? Or driving the same make color and model automobile as your Uncle Harry? If not then time travel to the early decades of the 20th century is probable not for you.

@BradThePitts 2 месяца назад

Here we go with the comments about how EVERYTHING was better in California back then!

@WOFFY-qc9te 2 месяца назад

Shame you are to young to have experienced a nicer existence. It was pretty good all over the planet back then.

@jaminova_1969 2 месяца назад

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!

@frankgarrett242 2 месяца назад

It was.

@billtomson5791 2 месяца назад

Fewer people there and elsewhere.

@antoniahamilton3201 2 месяца назад

Lol. It does get old. Nothing stays the same. These negative noobs are such a drag.

@gilval808 Месяц назад

Those homes are now worth millions and they probably cost $5,000

@hardyboy1959 Месяц назад

Boy, you wouldn't want to be a man out with no hat on in 1916! It seems like a bare head was considered unexceptable!~

@HerAeolianHarp 2 месяца назад

10:12 What?

@wellsorted 2 месяца назад

I know!

@MarinCipollina 2 месяца назад

I'd like to know how he got off that thing.. And how it got on in the first place for that matter..

@johnallred716 2 месяца назад

I see the russian bots, with their terrible spelling have arrived.

@danorthsidemang3834 2 месяца назад

Stop adding this stupid music!

@jimh598 2 месяца назад

Just turn the sound off if you don't like the music.

@jaminova_1969 2 месяца назад

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.