Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers & Their Times - https://variety.com/2009/film/reviews/inventing-l-a-the-chandlers-their-times-1200473841/

The Los Angeles Times' rise as, first, the engine of Southern California's profound economic boom and, second, a world-class newspaper, is recounted by filmmaker Peter Jones as an unfolding tragedy in "Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers & Their Times." Jones has made this definitive look at the paper and the Chandler family with the encyclopedic gravitas of Ken Burns' docs, directing slow-boiling anger at the notoriously private Chandler family, whose decisions drove a great newspaper into the ground. This uniquely American saga should stir the interest of specialized distribs and worldwide fests prior to Stateside PBS tube dates.

With: With: Camilla Chandler Frost, Marilyn "Missy" De Young, Harry Brant Chandler, Tom Johnson, Bill Thomas, Ed Guthman, Doug Goodan, Eunice Goodan, Peter Fernald, Marian Burke, Mike Davis, Norman Klein, Ruben Martinez, Dennis McDougal, Tim Rutten, William Deverell, Tad Williamson, Kevin Starr, David Margolick, Hal Holbrook, Cary Farnsworth, Otis Chandler, David Halberstam.

Narrator: Liev Schreiber.

The Los Angeles Times’ rise as, first, the engine of Southern California’s profound economic boom and, second, a world-class newspaper, is recounted by filmmaker Peter Jones as an unfolding tragedy in “Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers & Their Times.” Jones has made this definitive look at the paper and the Chandler family with the encyclopedic gravitas of Ken Burns’ docs, directing slow-boiling anger at the notoriously private Chandler family, whose decisions drove a great newspaper into the ground. This uniquely American saga should stir the interest of specialized distribs and worldwide fests prior to Stateside PBS tube dates...

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“No single family dominates any single region of the country as the Chandlers have dominated California,” David Halberstam wrote in “The Powers That Be,” his 1979 book on the media, and indeed, for more than a century, it was the Chandler family--more than any other force or institution--who shaped the development of Los Angeles and its sprawling environs.

Water for a desert city. A port for a landlocked city. A Music Center for a city with little in the way of formal culture. The aerospace industry. The movie industry. An important center for scientific study and research. Major league baseball. A future president of the United States. The Chandler family, operating largely through the Los Angeles Times, played a major role--generally the major role--in turning all those dreams into realities.

Now the Chandler family has surrendered both ownership of the paper and leadership in the community to a media company headquartered 1,750 miles away--and they have done so in negotiations conducted in such secrecy that Otis Chandler, the man most responsible for the transformation of The Times itself from journalistic mediocrity to excellence, said he didn’t know about the deal until it was completed.

...Chandler’s sister, Camilla Chandler Frost, one of seven trustees of the two Chandler Trusts that control about 65% of Times Mirror stock, confirmed that she did not speak to her brother about the deal until Monday morning. She said she and all other members of the Chandler Trusts and the Times Mirror board were sworn to secrecy during the negotiations.

Influence Over Port, Water Decisions

Shortly before the turn of the century, The Times pushed hard--and successfully--for a port in San Pedro, rather than Santa Monica, the favored harbor site of Southern Pacific Railroad, then a preeminently powerful California institution.

Several years later, Otis, Chandler and several other wealthy, prominent Angelenos spearheaded the controversial move to bring Owens Valley water 250 miles south to serve Los Angeles--and, having bought up undeveloped San Fernando Valley land at bargain prices--to make themselves even richer in the process.

Later, Harry Chandler, who served as publisher of The Times from 1917 to 1944, provided the financial contribution--and introductions to other successful businessmen--that helped lure Donald Douglas and his aircraft company to Los Angeles. He was similarly influential in the beginnings of the Hollywood motion picture industry and in bringing Robert Millikan, a world-famous physicist, to Southern California, a move that led to Throop Polytechnic, a local engineering and manual arts school, becoming the California Institute of Technology.

CALTECH https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Institute_of_Technology

Although founded as a preparatory and vocational school by Amos G. Throop in 1891, the college attracted influential scientists such as George Ellery Hale, Arthur Amos Noyes and Robert Andrews Millikan in the early 20th century. The vocational and preparatory schools were disbanded and spun off in 1910 and the college assumed its present name in 1921. In 1934, Caltech was elected to the Association of American Universities and the antecedents of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which Caltech continues to manage and operate, were established between 1936 and 1943 under Theodore von Kármán.[13][14] The university is one among a small group of institutes of technology in the United States which is primarily devoted to the instruction of pure and applied sciences.

...In 2010, Caltech, in partnership with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and headed by Professor Nathan Lewis, established a DOE Energy Innovation Hub aimed at developing revolutionary methods to generate fuels directly from sunlight. This hub, the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, will receive up to $122 million in federal funding over five years

Jean-Lou Chameau, the eighth president, announced on February 19, 2013, that he would be stepping down to accept the presidency at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.[39] Thomas F. Rosenbaum was announced to be the ninth president of Caltech on October 24, 2013, and his term began on July 1, 2014.

Caltech's 124-acre (50 ha) primary campus is located in Pasadena, California, approximately 11 miles (18 km) northeast of downtown Los Angeles. It is within walking distance of Old Town Pasadena and the Pasadena Playhouse District and therefore the two locations are frequent getaways for Caltech students.

Caltech is incorporated as a non-profit corporation and is governed by a privately appointed 46-member board of trustees who serve five-year terms of office and retire at the age of 72.[19][45] The current board is chaired by David L. Lee, co-founder of Global Crossing Ltd. The Trustees elect a President to serve as the chief executive officer of the Institute and administer the affairs on the Institute on behalf of the board, a Provost who serves as the chief academic officer of the Institute below the President, and ten other vice presidential and other senior positions.

according to Bloomberg- Ms. Camilla Chandler Frost is a current Trustee at California Institute of Technology. She is also the Trustee of the Chandler Trust and a Director of..