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Los Angeles the Beautiful

No copy you can watch online. No print is known to survive. What follows is what does: the release, the cast, the story, and what the trade press said at the time.

The story

The most interesting points about the California city, from an artistic and scenic standpoint, are reproduced with wonderful fidelity. The Angels’ Flight, Westlake Park, and the rare tropical growths that Los Angeles alone can boast, are all remembered.

Summary from The Moving Picture World · 8 February 1913

What the papers said

2 reviews

A travel film of much beauty because of the wonderfully luxuriant nature of the country in which the city is located. Many times in Los Angeles has been pictured by the motion camera, and it always is entertaining.

The Morning Telegraph · 9 February 1913

Entertaining views of the city of angels, which has been the scene of so many moving pictures. The downtown section and surrounding parts are shown, also the National Soldier’s Home at Sawtelle.

The Moving Picture World · 15 February 1913

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No cast or crew is credited in the surviving sources for this film. Bowers records the title and the release; the names did not come with them.

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More about this film

Filmed in
Los Angeles, California
Bowers’ notes
  1. This filler included different scenes from the subject of the same title released on January 26, 1913. 2. In some notices a comma was used in the title: Los Angeles, the Beautiful.

From Volume II: Filmography of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. Read the history of 1913 →

Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “Los Angeles the Beautiful”. thanhouser.org/films/los-angeles-the-beautiful-1913-02-07/

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