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Inventing LA: The Chandlers and Their Times, a documentary by Emmy-winning filmmaker Peter Jones, tells the story of the Los Angeles Times and the city’s most powerful family. For four generations, the Chandlers wielded unique influence through their newspaper. In their pursuit of personal agendas and civic ideals, they built the city of the future, but also exposed the dark side of the American dream.
Inventing LA employs unprecedented access to the family and the Times’ archives which span the century that Harrison Gray Otis, Harry Chandler, Norman Chandler, and Otis Chandler stood at the helm of the newspaper and at the center of the city’s economic, social and cultural growth. A character-driven film, it traces the ruthless, ingenious and often self-serving methods by which four publishers used the newspaper to turn a tiny town into a world metropolis.
Camilla Chandler Frost, daughter of Norman and Dorothy Chandler
Marilyn “Missy” De Young, first wife of Otis Chandler
Harry Brant Chandler, son of Otis Chandler
Bettina Chandler, widow of Otis Chandler
Doug Goodan, grandson of Harry Chandler, and wife Eunice Goodan
Tad Williamson, grandson of Harry Chandler
Tom Johnson, first non-family publisher of Los Angeles Times
Catherine Mulholland, author/granddaughter of William Mulholland
Bill Thomas, editor, Los Angeles Times, 1971-89
Ed Guthman, first national editor, Los Angeles Times, 1964-76
Peter Fernald, former Times-Mirror executive, escort for Dorothy Chandler
Marian Burke, longtime secretary to Dorothy Chandler
Kevin Starr, author, Americans and the California Dream
David Margolick, writer, Vanity Fair
Alex Jones, author, The Trust
Ron Karenga, Ph.D., African-American activist
John Thomas, friend/confidante of Otis Chandler
Zubin Mehta, former music director/conductor, LA Philharmonic
William Deverell, author, Whitewashed Adobe
Mike Davis, author, City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear
Norman Klein, author, The History of Forgetting
Abraham Hoffman, author, Vision or Villainy
Allison Varzally, author, Making a Non-White America: Californians Coloring Outside Ethnic Lines
Ruben Martinez, author, The New Americans
Dennis McDougal, author, Privileged Son