The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- City and County of Los Angeles, California (FilmLA, the not-for-profit film permit office for the City and County) · California
- Level
- County
- Authority
- Context only: FilmLA's contemporaneous account of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Safer at Home Order of Mar. 19-20, 2020 (MET-LA-001) and the City's order
- Issued
- 2020-04-23 Apr. 23, 2020
- Effective
- Describes the closure of on-location filming from Mar. 20, 2020 (read as 2020-03-20)
- End
- Filming resumed June 12, 2020 under Appendix J (SEC-25-001; SEC-25-006) (read as 2020-06-12)
- In force
- Mar. 20, 2020 to June 12, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Stay-at-homeBusiness closureGathering cap
- Addressees
- film, television and commercial production companies
- location managers
- Functions reached
- Collection
- Weddings, Events and Production Services SEC-25
Operative words
The 1,091 local productions filming in February 2020 dwindled to 644 projects in March before filming ended completely on March 20. On that date, the County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health and other state and local authorities issued complementary 'Safer at Home' Orders, which closed the region to on-location filming until further notice.... overall filming in Greater Los Angeles region saw an 18 percent decline to 7,252 Shoot Days (SD) from January through March, compared to 8,843 SD in early 2019.
Enforcement
Not an order; the orders it describes are MET-LA-001 and the City's Safer at Home order
Notes
Secondary source establishing the date and mechanism of the film-production shutdown in the largest production market; the operative orders are the County and City Safer at Home orders in the LA metro file.
Retrieval noteBytes 1638908.