LA’s orange nights became a movie timestamp 🌃🎬
Drive filmed Los Angeles in 2011, when sodium streetlights still gave the city its warm orange nighttime color. The city then converted 160,000 streetlights to LEDs, replacing that familiar glow with a cooler white look.
By the early 2020s, 98% of LA’s streetlights were LED, so the old night palette had largely vanished.
The film feels dated in the best way because it caught a city changing its light at street level.
#Film #Cities #Streetlights #LEDLighting #LosAngeles
LA’s orange nights became a movie timestamp 🌃🎬
Drive filmed Los Angeles in 2011, when sodium streetlights still gave the city its warm orange nighttime color. The city then converted 160,000 streetlights to LEDs, replacing that familiar glow with a cooler white look.
By the early 2020s, 98% of LA’s streetlights were LED, so the old night palette had largely vanished.
The film feels dated in the best way because it caught a city changing its light at street level.
#Film #Cities #Streetlights #LEDLighting #LosAngeles