# THE STORY OF CENTURY CITY 1970s LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA PROMOTIONAL FILM 53524

This promotional film for Century City dates to the early 1970s, when Los Angeles' "city within a city" came into its own. It features a futuristic score by Mort Garson and was produced by John McComb and written, photographed and edited by Lee Chaney and Filmagic. Century City is actually a 176-acre (71.2 ha) neighborhood and business district in Los Angeles County's Westside. Outside of Downtown Los Angeles, Century City is one of the metropolitan area's most prominent employment centers, and its skyscrapers form a distinctive skyline on the Westside. As the film shows, the district was developed on the former backlot of film studio 20th Century Fox. The demolition of the lot is seen in the film's opening, with movie set after movie set being bulldozed, and "celluloid dreams crumbled". At 1:37 , some of the world's foremost architects arrive to plan the development, dominated by the Century Plaza and the Avenue of the Stars. The land of Century City originally belonged to cowboy actor Tom Mix, who used it as a ranch. It became a backlot of 20th Century Fox, which still has its headquarters just to the southwest. The area is named for the 20th Century Fox's Century Property. In 1956, Spyros Skouras (1893-1971), who served as the President of 20th Century Fox from 1942–62, and his nephew-in-law Edmond Herrscher (died 1983), an attorney sometimes known as "the father of Century City," decided to repurpose the land for real estate development. The following year, in 1957,…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/53524CityOfTheCentury)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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