The magnitude of this gigantic engineering project could with difficulty be overestimated. The pictures present with increasing and absorbing interest, the details of the work construction, the difficulties encountered and the hardships overcome in such a colossal engineering problem, the foresight and wisdom of those responsible for this provision. Comfort and convenience of the present and future generations will undoubtedly reap the greater reward for the vast outlay entailed, both financially and of physical effort. - Moving Picture World, January 25, 1913 “As an evidence of what the American company intends to do in the future, a film will be released this week showing the Los Angeles aqueduct. In 1000 feet of film that mammoth enterprise has been chronicled its entire length, from the city of Los Angeles to Owens lake, 200 miles away. It carries through unusual mountain and desert country, giving a clear idea of many obstacles overcome. .... “The Los Angeles Aqueduct,” one of the finest industrial films ever taken in the west, was given a studio run yesterday. The film will be released Thursday. After showing Owens lake, with Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the United States, visits are made to the various spectacular features of the work. One secures a splendid idea of the method of work and the wonderful mountain and desert country through which the aqueduct has been run.” - Morning Press, January 28, 1913, p.3
This title also found interest outside the US. It was released on March 29th in two lengths of 986 feet and also an edit to 500 feet. - The Bioscope, 2/27/1913