I'm a sucker for videos of old Los Angeles. Here are some scenes from, the uploader says, the late forties or early fifties. I was most intrigued by the shot of Owl Drugs, a long-gone shop in Westwood Village that I remember well. I can even remember the covers of specific comic books I bought there in the early sixties and which I still own. There's also some footage of J. Edgar Hoover and Bertolt Brecht testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee, which took place in 1947…