Life in Los Angeles 1949 Rare Color Film

Los Angeles in 1949, in real Kodachrome color. Not colorized, not AI. The Los Angeles Fire Department made "Your Fire Department" as a training and public relations film, and in doing so recorded the city itself: the fire stations built to match their neighborhoods, streets of wooden bungalows, oil derricks downtown, brush fires in the hills, the fireboat at San Pedro, the Sixth Street Viaduct over the dry Los Angeles River, the newly renamed Los Angeles International Airport, and the Earl Carroll Theatre on Sunset at night. Chapters 0:00 A training film that filmed the city 0:30 The fire stations 1:20 A city made of wood 2:30 Downtown and the oil derricks 3:10 Ladders and smoke 4:20 Salvage covers 4:50 The hills and the brush fires 5:50 The fireboat at San Pedro 7:10 Sixth Street Viaduct and the airport 8:00 The chief, the map, the recruits 9:20 The alarm office 10:00 Inspectors, Sunset Boulevard at night 11:00 Firemen as neighbors 11:40 Seventy years later #LosAngeles #1949 #archivalfootage #historyincolor #1940s #vintagefilm #LAFD #Kodachrome #California #Americanhistory #realcolorfilm #notAI