1982 film of Los Angeles.

[bing101]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=636AXpGYF1w

[Rothman]

Made me think of the opening to CHiPs.

[DTComposer]

The shot at about 1:25 is eastbound CA-118 passing under I-405. The sign remains today - with graffiti guards added, and "Mission Hills" greened out (I suppose part of Caltrans' plan to limit message loading by removing local destinations as controls).

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.2658757,-118.4730113,3a,75y,90.08h,70.66t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sani-U6CxJ9ymFiRwYERVkg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

The shot beginning at 2:20 is looking over CA-110 in downtown, starting with the 5th Street overcrossing, then as it pans looking southward, showing 6th Street, the 6th Street offramp, Wilshire Boulevard and 7th Street.

Anyone else want to do the rest?

[sparker]

The part from about 0:58 to 1:19 looks like it was shot NB on the Hollywood/US 101 Freeway between Vermont St. and the Gower overpass in the north part of Hollywood.  Unfortunately, the resolution of the film, particularly in regard to street signage, doesn't seem to pinpoint the locales in the beginning "surface" portion of the film; I would guess somewhere centering around West Washington Blvd. between midtown & Culver City.

[DTComposer]

The shot from 0:16 to 0:26 is heading east on Santa Monica Boulevard, crossing Gardener Street/Vista Street. The Jaguar repair shop building stands as is (and is still a auto repair). The burger stand has been upgraded to a Fatburger.

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0907829,-118.3532798,3a,75y,123.35h,79.14t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s0BldqYpyiRwtIWCrZKLomg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Yep, I'm totally doing this instead of working right now.

[djsekani]

1:15-1:20 looks like it could be the 134 freeway through Eagle Rock. The shot before that is definitely the 101 near Hollywood.

1:56 is the Four-Level Interchange?

The low resolution makes it really hard to pick out identifying details.

[Desert Man]

Thanx for sharing, bing. Around that time, L.A. surpassed Chicago to become the nation's 2nd largest city...now L.A. has 4 million (some demographers place the population at 5 million), half of NYC's. Half a century earlier (1930), L.A. became a "very big" city (over a million residents) and surpassed San Francisco as the state's and west coast's largest city and was over 100,000 in 1900, about 100 times larger than as a pueblo in 1850 when CA became a state. L.A. wants to host the 2024 summer olympics, since they were great hosts in 1984. And L.A., all 485 square miles of it, is a diverse, multiculti and global city, a rival to NYC, London, Paris, Tokyo and the world's largest metro area, Mexico City.