TRAVELOGUE TITLED, "LOS ANGELES" 1916, CREATED BY FORD MOTOR CO. & EDISON CO. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

This film is housed at Periscope Films.  You can search the search window there for anything about LA and might find some interesting videos.

3:58  Pershing Square.  Nice ground shots of Pershing Square at the 3:58 mark.  In 1916, Pershing Square was called Central Park, like New York's.  

4:57  Angel's Flight.  

  

6:09  Chinatown.

6:55  The Old Plaza. 

7:56  The North Hill Street "Double-Barrelled" Tunnel.

8:14  Scottish Rite Temple.  

9:43  California Aqueduct.

10:29  California Bungalows.  1916 California Bungalows are today's mansions.  

11:50  California's Oil Fields.  Oh, boy.  Signal Hill, all the beach areas, et al.

12:23  Broadway and the fashionable shopping district. 

13:00  Catalina Island.  And a departure from LA looks like it's out of San Pedro, to Catalina at 13:38.  

14:39  This clip appears for only an instant at the 14:39 mark. 

It's funny because every city needs to market its virtues by comparing itself to some more magnificent world landmark.  In this case, it's the Great Wall of China.  It reads, 

The breakwater rivals the ancient wall of China, being two hundred feet thick at the base, sixty-eight feet high and two miles long--a tribute to the Gentle Pacific. 

The Hotel Metropole was the big draw in Avalon, Catalina back in the day.  

14:52  Hotel Stamford.  Find this shot below at about 4/5 down the page at Water and Power.

The caption from the Water and Power site reads, 

1920s. View showing the west side of the 100 block of Metropole Avenue in Avalon.  Pictured are the Hotel Stamford, Catalina Hardware Company, the Hermosa Hotel and Cottages, and the Boos Bros Cafeteria on the right with the multiple streetlamps in front. 

By the way, that Water and Power page has some fantastic shots of Catalina from back in the 1920s.  

17:49  South Spring Street.  Okay, I'll bite.  What was South Spring Street known for in 1916?  The film does not say.

19:15   Orange Groves.  The Fish Canyon area of Duarte was nothing but orange groves before our tract was built.  The footage here in this segment of the film is uneventful.

20:04  Picking Oranges.  O, the excitement.  

20:50  Building a Harbor at San Pedro.