V031: City of Strangers: Welcome to Paradise
British Broadcasting Corporation, VHS (NTSC), color (1992), 48:00
Narrated by Sam Wanamaker
Executive Producer: Diana Lashmore
Associate Producer: Sue Knussen
Produced by Ann Hummel for the BBC
Time | Description |
00:00 | Credits, scenes of the Hollywood hills |
1:25 | Interview with Vincent Price, discusses impressive circle of émigrés |
2:25 | Interview with Cornelia Foss, painter |
2:50 | Interview with Lukas Foss, composer |
3:25 | Bus tour of Hollywood, Walk of Fame, Cafe America |
4:30 | Footage from The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), directed by Michael Curtiz, music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold |
5:15 | Interview with Neal Gabler, author of An Empire of Their Own |
5:40 | Statue of Liberty; footage from Romance in Manhattan (1936); footage of Ellis Island |
7:10 | Interview with Leon Askin, actor/director; footage of immigrants |
8:50 | Stories of Louis B. Mayer, Sam Goldwyn, and Adolph Zukor |
9:05 | Footage from Dodge City (1939), directed by Michael Curtiz |
9:55 | Mountains and deserts around Los Angeles, beginnings of the movie industry in Hollywood, ideal climate |
11:45 | Neal Gabler, discusses the establishment of a new social system in southern CA |
12:30 | Footage from What Price Hollywood? (1932); Gabler |
13:00 | Footage from a film about Zukor; Gabler discusses the eastern European heritage of movie moguls |
14:25 | Footage from an early silent film; early films by D. W. Griffith |
15:35 | Interview (filmed 1974) with Rouben Mamoullian, director |
16:05 | Interview with Jean Negulesco, director |
16:30 | Footage from What Price Hollywood? (1932); Gabler discusses the movie moguls' goals and aspirations |
17:55 | Scenes of opulent movie theaters modelled on European palaces |
18:50 | Footage from Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1928), directed by Walter Ruttmann |
19:10 | Interview with Curt Siodmak, writer, and Henrietta Siodmak |
19:30 | Discussion of Berlin in 1920s, Max Reinhardt's activities and influence |
20:20 | Interview with Gottfried Reinhardt, son of Max Reinhardt |
20:40 | Footage of Otto Preminger speaking at the National Film Theatre (1972) |
21:30 | Gottfried Reinhardt |
22:30 | Footage from Die Nibelungen (1924), directed by Fritz Lang |
23:15 | Discussion of contemporary German film, government's support of UFA in Berlin |
23:50 | Interview with Ted Thomas, UFA Representative, New York 1920s |
24:50 | Interview with John Pommer, producer and son of Erich Pommer, head of UFA |
25:50 | Emigration of leading producers, directors and actors to Hollywood |
26:20 | Footage from The Last Laugh (1924), directed by F. W. Murnau |
27:00 | Footage from Murnau's first Hollywood film, Sunrise (1927) |
28:20 | Beginning of the sound film |
28:40 | Interview with Ted Thomas, dialogue director 1930s |
29:10 | Contemporary footage of MGM's sound lot from the air |
29:35 | John Pommer discusses Ernst Lubitsch's activities |
30:15 | Gottfried Reinhardt discusses Lubitsch's association with Reinhardt |
30:40 | Footage from Ninotchka (1939), directed by Lubitsch |
31:40 | Askin, Thomas |
32:15 | Footage from The Merry Widow (1934), directed by Lubitsch |