On Sun Feb 18, Michael Javor wrote:

> I would appreciate any help with the following problem: I

> need to locate films which deal (not necessarily exclusively) > with Los

Angleles iconography, in my particular case, the Los > Angeles Aqueduct and

the Los Angeles Coliseum.  I already

> have CHINATOWN for the Aqueduct, so any further advise

> would be tremendously appreciated!

 

One of my favorites is the LA trenches in Gordon Douglas' 1954 ant classic,

THEM.

I also love looking at LA as it appears in the 1920's, etc, (unpopulated,

farmland) in Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy films.

But maybe you only meant LA relatively recently?

 

Regards,

Bet MacArthur                                 "There were moments of

              Film Projects                            solitude, sitting on

the boat     Arts Analysis Institute             waiting for a shot,

thinking,         Cambridge, Massachusetts             This can't be done. It

was            In Mass:  (617) 455 6189                 stupid to begin it,

we'll             In LA:  (310) 313 5059                       never finish

it. No one   online:  [log in to unmask]            is ever going to see this

 

                                                  picture, and I'm never

going

                                                  to work in this town

again."

                                                             ---Steven

Spielberg,

                                                         on the making of

'Jaws'

 

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