SurveyLA Video Wins Preservation Award

The California Preservation Foundation (CPF) has recognized SurveyLA: Preserving Los Angeles with a 2008 Preservation Design Award in the Interpretive Exhibits category.

The half-hour educational video, a collaborative effort between the Office of Historic Resources and the City’s Information Technology Agency, was created to communicate the importance of the citywide survey and to generate excitement about Los Angeles’ rich and diverse historic resources. Emmy award winning Producer/Director, Robert Manciero, was selected to produce the video. The CPF annual awards program will be held in October aboard The Queen Mary in Long Beach.

The program is divided into three segments that explain the survey by taking viewers to diverse historic places around the city, including Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House, the Dunbar Hotel on Central Avenue, the Far East Café in Little Tokyo, Weatherwolde Castle in Tujunga, Church of the Epiphany in Lincoln Heights, and the Modernist neighborhoods of Crestwood Hills in Brentwood and Balboa Highlands in Granada Hills. Interviews feature local leaders who discuss how the survey will help preserve the places that make Los Angeles special.

 

 

 

The SurveyLA video airs regularly on LA CityView (Channel 35) and can be viewed on their website at

http://ita.lacity.org/lacityview35/surveyLA.htm?link=guide/links_neighborhoods.htm   or on this web site under the “Videos” button.  DVD copies of the video will also be available to community organizations in August and can be obtained by contacting Rita Moreno at (213) 978-1192.