Most nighttime photos of LA with searchlights strafing the sky is for a splashy movie premiere, and so when I saw this one, I wondered which big movie it was. “Gone with the Wind”? “Ben-Hur”? “Cleopatra”? It turns out this shot had nothing to do with Hollywood. It was taken on May 27, 1946, and was a light show put on by the US Navy. What we’re looking at here is Los Angeles Harbor filled with battleships, cruisers, aircraft carriers, and destroyers putting on a spectacular 40-minute show to mark the end of Foreign Trade Week.