Star Power — The Role of Palos Verdes in Films and TV

Longtime PVE resident and photographer John Harbison takes you on a fascinating and informative trip down memory lane with clips from films and TV shows that were shot in Palos Verdes over the last century. In these movies, PV has “pretended" to be many locations around the world, such as Japan, Scotland, Arabia, Egypt, England, Hawaii, San Francisco and the Caribbean. John has had a successful business career as a management consultant, entrepreneur and early-stage investor (with five of his investments earning between 256x and 1478x). One of his companies introduced the world’s first side blindspot detection radar for cars, and that company grew from $0 to $700 million in revenue in eight years. As a photographer, he travels extensively to remote locations and specializes in wildlife and landscape photography; locally, he’s won the grand prize in the Palos Verdes Photography contest twice.