V031: City of Strangers: Welcome to Paradise
British Broadcasting Corporation, VHS (NTSC), color (1992), 48:00
Narrated by Sam Wanamaker
Executive Producer: Diana Lashmore
Associate Producer: Sue Knussen
Produced by Ann Hummel for the BBC
| Time | Description |
| 00:00 | Credits, scenes of the Hollywood hills |
| 1:25 | Interview with Vincent Price, discusses impressive circle of émigrés |
| 2:25 | Interview with Cornelia Foss, painter |
| 2:50 | Interview with Lukas Foss, composer |
| 3:25 | Bus tour of Hollywood, Walk of Fame, Cafe America |
| 4:30 | Footage from The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), directed by Michael Curtiz, music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold |
| 5:15 | Interview with Neal Gabler, author of An Empire of Their Own |
| 5:40 | Statue of Liberty; footage from Romance in Manhattan (1936); footage of Ellis Island |
| 7:10 | Interview with Leon Askin, actor/director; footage of immigrants |
| 8:50 | Stories of Louis B. Mayer, Sam Goldwyn, and Adolph Zukor |
| 9:05 | Footage from Dodge City (1939), directed by Michael Curtiz |
| 9:55 | Mountains and deserts around Los Angeles, beginnings of the movie industry in Hollywood, ideal climate |
| 11:45 | Neal Gabler, discusses the establishment of a new social system in southern CA |
| 12:30 | Footage from What Price Hollywood? (1932); Gabler |
| 13:00 | Footage from a film about Zukor; Gabler discusses the eastern European heritage of movie moguls |
| 14:25 | Footage from an early silent film; early films by D. W. Griffith |
| 15:35 | Interview (filmed 1974) with Rouben Mamoullian, director |
| 16:05 | Interview with Jean Negulesco, director |
| 16:30 | Footage from What Price Hollywood? (1932); Gabler discusses the movie moguls' goals and aspirations |
| 17:55 | Scenes of opulent movie theaters modelled on European palaces |
| 18:50 | Footage from Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1928), directed by Walter Ruttmann |
| 19:10 | Interview with Curt Siodmak, writer, and Henrietta Siodmak |
| 19:30 | Discussion of Berlin in 1920s, Max Reinhardt's activities and influence |
| 20:20 | Interview with Gottfried Reinhardt, son of Max Reinhardt |
| 20:40 | Footage of Otto Preminger speaking at the National Film Theatre (1972) |
| 21:30 | Gottfried Reinhardt |
| 22:30 | Footage from Die Nibelungen (1924), directed by Fritz Lang |
| 23:15 | Discussion of contemporary German film, government's support of UFA in Berlin |
| 23:50 | Interview with Ted Thomas, UFA Representative, New York 1920s |
| 24:50 | Interview with John Pommer, producer and son of Erich Pommer, head of UFA |
| 25:50 | Emigration of leading producers, directors and actors to Hollywood |
| 26:20 | Footage from The Last Laugh (1924), directed by F. W. Murnau |
| 27:00 | Footage from Murnau's first Hollywood film, Sunrise (1927) |
| 28:20 | Beginning of the sound film |
| 28:40 | Interview with Ted Thomas, dialogue director 1930s |
| 29:10 | Contemporary footage of MGM's sound lot from the air |
| 29:35 | John Pommer discusses Ernst Lubitsch's activities |
| 30:15 | Gottfried Reinhardt discusses Lubitsch's association with Reinhardt |
| 30:40 | Footage from Ninotchka (1939), directed by Lubitsch |
| 31:40 | Askin, Thomas |
| 32:15 | Footage from The Merry Widow (1934), directed by Lubitsch |