Perhaps you're familiar with the recent KCET series
Lost LA; their most recent episode is "
Reshaping LA" in which one of the segments—"
Lost Hills"—has some particularly interesting footage, which, being absorbed with Bunker minutiae in general, I thought touching on it would be pertinent here.
So you're also likely familiar with the justifiably-famous process plate filmette "
A Drive Through Bunker Hill" shot for
Shockproof in 1948; you may remember they toodle from Second down Grand to about Fifth, shot from the
back of the car, they they set up again and shoot the same run out the
side of the car. Then they set up again from Fifth and Flower and shoot out the
back of the car, stopping at First and S Bunker Hill Ave. So why didn't they then shoot a matching film out the side of the car as they did with that first go?
Well, they did: in
Lost Hills, which has footage from the Prelinger Archive, AKA archive.org, check out from 0:23 to 0:32, as they cruise past some familiar territory, right past 708 W 1st, 704 hiding a bit, then the columns of the Lima Apts at 702, we cross Hope St, there's the Crestone at 644 and the Baldy View at 632, at the corner of SBHAvenue.
To get your bearings, we're here looking south down Hope St, and the car drives from A to B along First:
A couple grabs from the film:
The
Lima (AKA
Rossmere, Majestic) at Hope and First, with 704 hiding a bit, as I mentioned—
And rolling past the Crestone—
There's a couple of
Nadel images, a few years later, that give you a flavor of the drive:
Point being, one therefore has to assume there's a whole section filmed from Fifth up Flower at the oblique angle. Who knows what else from that filmy goodness may exist?
...The other thing I wanted to mention: remember about six months ago I was going on about there was
some film somewhere of Angels Flight Café in color? And that I wanted desperately to see it but someone else bought it on eBay and fretted that it might never see the light of day? Well, we found out who bought it, and it couldn't be in better hands (besides mine, of course). Again, Prelinger Archives loaned to
Lost Hills and so check out 0:37-:039 and 1:12-1:17 which, granted, is only a few short seconds but is just as amazing as you'd expect.