Promotional documentary titled 'By The Way of Panama - California The Golden'. Describes views of California to be seen on a cruise from New York, via Panama. The sea shores of California with rocks and sand. A passenger ship sailing in the harbor of San Diego. Views of the San Diego Harbor. The ship, called the "Pennsylvania" reaches harbor of Los Angeles. The buildings and streets of the city of Los Angeles. A Hollywood film studio with shooting underway. Luxury homes of LA. The ship moves on to San Francisco. The harbor of San Francisco including Alcatraz Island in background. Views of the surroundings from a high ridge in San Francisco.
Exterior view of The Golden Pagoda restaurant, later the Hop Louie restaurant in old Chinatown (950 Mei Ling Way, Los Angeles, CA 90012.) A Los Angeles storybook style home with water wheel and dwarf statue. Elevated view of old Hollywood neighborhood. Exterior view of roof of The Beverly Theatre (206 N. Beverly Dr. Beverly Hills, CA 90210.) A storybook style home with a "seawave" roof in Los Angeles. Exterior view of the The Prudential Insurance Company of America building, Prudential Square (5757 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.) Pedestrians at crosswalk with passing cars near the Santa Fe Building, also known as the William G. Kerckhoff Building (121 E. 6th Street Los Angeles, CA 90014.) Exterior detail of the California Federal Savings Building at the corner of Wilshire Blvd and Masselin Avenue with passing car. Exterior detail of the Prudential Insurance building facade. Warner Bros Studios Gate #2 Entrance, also known as Burbank Studios, at 4300 W. Olive Avenue, Burbank. Cars pass on Olive Avenue at studio entrance.
Inaugural celebrations on Los Angeles' 150th birthday in Los Angeles, California. Parade event on city streets opens with the 'Epic of Transportation' depicting history of travel from primitive to modern times. Procession starts with a man on horseback drawing a primitive carriage with two children sitting on it. A buffalo cart. A carriage drawn by a mule team. Depiction of train and aircraft during the procession.
Los Angeles County Relief Administration (LACRA) workers build a 24 mile long Bell sewer, 12 deep in Los Angeles, California. They dig and brace the sides of the trench using pounded stakes. They add a gravel bed and then lay pipes into the trench. Engineers gather to inspect the pipe, led by LACRA chief engineer Ralph Smith. By hand, workers operate a giant pump handle with a massive hook on the end, which pulls massive timbers from deep buried positions along the line of the trench.
American collegiate football match between University of Southern California (USC) and Army in Los Angeles, California. USC defeats Army by 22-0.
Staff train two 400-pound lions trained to tow a cart at a zoo of the California Zoological Society in Los Angeles, California. Lions seen towing the cart, carrying a driver and some boxes of food. They stop in front of the cage of black bear while a staff member throws food to a bear in the cage. Lions roar while towing. The lions run away, wrecking the cart. Three men wielding sticks try to get control of the running lions. View of the lions laying down relaxing beside the crashed cart. From UN newsreel 25-year retrospective, dated October 27, 1960.
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