V033: City of Strangers: A Sense of Difference
British Broadcasting Corporation, VHS (NTSC) color (1992), 50:00.
Director: Sue Knussen
Executive producer: Diana Lashmore
Producer: Ann Hummel
| Time | Description |
| 0:00 | Opening credits |
| 0:50 | LA cityscape at night, voice-over |
| 1:00 | beach scene |
| 1:10 | various LA landmarks |
| 1:45 | Interview with "Peter Sellars, Director, Los Angeles Festival" |
| 1:54 | Helicopter view of Beverly Hills |
| 2:04 | Footage of WWII |
| 2:24 | Interview with "Anna Lee, Actress" |
| 2:59 | News clips/war footage |
| 3:30 | Interview with "Leon Askin, Actor/Director" |
| 4:00 | Interview with "Elfriede Fischinger, Artist" |
| 4:12 | News clips, voice-over, 1940s film encouraging aliens to register |
| 5:48 | Interview with "Norman Lloyd, Actor/Producer" |
| 6:59 | Interview with "Nuria Schoenberg Nono, Daughter of Arnold Schoenberg" |
| 7:33 | Film clip, "Hitler's Children, 1943" |
| 8:29 | Interview with Nuria Schoenberg Nono, recounting her participation in the anti-Nazi film "Prelude to War", clips from this film |
| 9:17 | Warner Brothers studios |
| 9:40 | Interview with "Gottfried Reinhardt, Writer/Producer" |
| 10:19 | News clips, photos, film clips (anti-Nazi films made in Hollywood) |
| 11:08 | "Otto Preminger at the National Film Theatre, 1972" |
| 11:50 | Film clips/stills |
| 12:20 | Interview with Anna Lee |
| 12:30 | Clip of Hangmen Also Die (Bertolt Brecht and Fritz Lang, music by Hanns Eisler) |
| 12:38 | "Hangmen Also Die, 1943, Director: Bertolt Brecht" |
| 12:46 | Anna Lee/film clip |
| 13:45 | "North Star, 1943" |
| 14:46 | Shots of various film studios and movie posters |
| 15:25 | "Casablanca, 1942, Director: Michael Curtiz" |
| 16:41 | Fireworks, war end |
| 17:00 | Interview with "Marianne Brün, Daughter of actor Fritz Kortner" |
| 17:28 | Photo of Brecht and Kortner |
| 17:36 | LA street scenes |
| 17:53 | Berlin street scenes, photos |
| 18:05 | Marianne Brün |
| 18:22 | Berlin/Brün |
| 18:42 | Thomas Mann photo |
| 18:58 | Lion Feuchtwanger photo |
| 19:05 | "Norman Lloyd" |
| 19:51 | Schoenberg's Rockingham house |
| 20:07 | Photo of AS in late years/shots of house interior |
| 20:23 | "Nuria Schoenberg Nono" |
| 20:45 | Photos of AS composing and of his reconstructed office, music manuscript finished September 23, 1946 |
| 21:35 | Nuria |
| 21:45 | Photo of AS and family |
| 22:00 | "Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor" |
| 22:45 | "Barbara Zeisl Schoenberg" |
| 23:48 | Nuria/photos of children/film footage of Schoenberg at Malibu party (see V034) |
| 24:18 | "Christopher Hampton, Author Tales from Hollywood" |
| 24:29 | Photos of Stravinsky |
| 24:58 | Michael Tilson Thomas |
| 25:20 | Christopher Hampton |
| 25:35 | Photos of Billy Wilder |
| 25:55 | Film clip of "Double Indemnity, 1944, Director: Billy Wilder" |
| 26:43 | Photos of Bertolt Brecht |
| 27:16 | Christopher Hampton/photos of Brecht |
| 27:55 | Gottfried Reinhardt |
| 28:16 | Norman Lloyd |
| 28:58 | Interview with "Prof. James K. Lyon, Author Bertolt Brecht in America" |
| 29:30 | Street scenes of Santa Monica and Hollywood |
| 30:00 | "'Hollywood Elegy': Words, Bertolt Brecht; Music, Hanns Eisler" |
| 30:59 | "The Unsuspected, 1947"; voice-over discussing film noir |
| 31:38 | Cityscape, residential sprawl, industry |
| 31:50 | Interview with "Mike Davis, Author City of Quartz" |
| 32:20 | Various film clips capitalizing on LA's violent image/film noir movie posters |
| 33:32 | Interview with "Curt Siodmak, Writer" |
| 34:10 | "Double Indemnity, 1944" |
| 35:50 | Footage of McCarthy hearings |
| 36:12 | Gottfried Reinhardt |
| 36:47 | McCarthy hearings |
| 37:11 | "The Woman on Pier 13, 1949" |
| 38:24 | Marianne Brün |
| 39:00 | Gottfried Reinhardt |
| 39:29 | James Lyon (on Brecht) |
| 41:02 | Photos/footage of Hanns Eisler |
| 41:49 | Norman Lloyd |
| 42:08 | Speech by Eisler upon his deportation |
| 42:40 | LA city scenes |
| 43:25 | Michael Tilson Thomas |
| 43:44 | Photos of Schoenberg and Stravinsky |
| 44:00 | Gottfried Reinhardt |
| 44:22 | Current school/city scenes |
| 44:45 | Peter Sellars/street scenes demonstrating current multi-ethnicity of LA |
| 45:19 | LA at night |
| 45:30 | Credits |
| 46:20 | End |
| Notes: | LA = Los Angeles; AS = Arnold Schoenberg |