SurveyLA Video Wins an Emmy Award

The half-hour video for SurveyLA, the Los Angeles Historic Resources Survey Project, is now an Emmy Award winner!  SurveyLA won top honors in the Arts and Culture/History category at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences' 61st Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards on August 29.  For a full list of the winners, click here:

The television program was a joint project of the City of Los Angeles Office of Historic Resources and the City's Information Technology Agency, LA Cityview Channel 35.  Channel 35 picked up three other local Emmy Awards, outpacing many of Los Angeles' commercial television stations. 

The program highlights why a citywide historic resources survey is important to Los Angeles, and takes 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. 

Bill Watanabe of the Little Tokyo Service Center at the Far East Cafe

A Certified Local Government grant from the State Office of Historic Preservation provided funding for translation of the program into Spanish and for the duplication and distribution of 1,000 DVD copies to community organizations throughout the city. 

The program is available for viewing on-line in three segments, posted on YouTube and on the SurveyLA web site (click here).

Many thanks to Channel 35's Executive Producer Tony Ighani and Producer Robert Manciero for making this award possible.