This is pretty difficult to describe, because this road is weird. There's a road in Burbank, CA which is a double-road. It's not a divided highway; a divided highway has the different travel directions separated by a median. On this road, there is traffic in both directions on both sides of the median. I don't know what the official term for this type of road is, if there is one. I guess if I knew what this is called, I could google the relevant California driving rules. 
Here's the Google Maps image of the relevant scene. You are facing West, to the left is South and to the right is North.
The road is Chandler Blvd, which is an East/West road separated by a pedestrian/bike path median (over what used to be industrial railroad tracks from back in the 40s or 50s). Now that it's a normal driving road, there is traffic going both Eastbound and Westbound on both the north and south halves of the road.
At this intersection, it crosses Buena Vista, a North/South street, at an intersection controlled by traffic lights.
The other half of Chandler Blvd, parallel to you on your left, also has traffic lights. They are timed to be offset so that the southern East/West road gets a green light, then Buena Vista gets a green light, then the northern half of Chandler gets a green light, then Buena Vista gets another green, and then back to the southern road and the cycle repeats.
There is a crosswalk in the middle of the road for pedestrians and bikers, and painted lines that seem to indicate a stop line. There's also a second set of stop lights: these lights have special lenses which prevent you from seeing what color they are until you've entered the intersection, that is, if you're already traveling south on Buena Vista and approaching this intersection, you'll only see the first set of lights (hanging over the middle of the intersection) until you actually enter the intersection, once you're over the first crosswalk you'll be able to see the second set of lights (hung over the far side of the intersection) which are presumably also green. It is possible, however, for the first light (holding back traffic on Buena Vista) to be red, while the farther lights they can't see are green for traffic in the middle of intersection.
Say you're on the north half of the road, traveling west, as portrayed in the above linked scene, and wish to turn left so as to be southbound on Buena Vista. The right lane here is for right turns only, the left lane is for driving straight or turning left. There is no specific left-turn lane, and there is no left-green arrow. You are in the leftmost lane for westerly traffic.
When you get a green light, and if there's no opposing traffic, how much of a left turn can you make if the 'second set' of lights (hanging over the southernmost edge of this intersection) is red? That is, you start to turn left, then in the middle of the intersection, at the crosswalk (where the gray SUV is in the above image), you see the lights in front of you are red. Do you stop before driving over the crosswalk and wait for the green? Or can you drive all the way through and complete the left turn, driving over the middle crosswalk in the process?
Here's the Google Maps image of the relevant scene. You are facing West, to the left is South and to the right is North.
The road is Chandler Blvd, which is an East/West road separated by a pedestrian/bike path median (over what used to be industrial railroad tracks from back in the 40s or 50s). Now that it's a normal driving road, there is traffic going both Eastbound and Westbound on both the north and south halves of the road.
At this intersection, it crosses Buena Vista, a North/South street, at an intersection controlled by traffic lights.
The other half of Chandler Blvd, parallel to you on your left, also has traffic lights. They are timed to be offset so that the southern East/West road gets a green light, then Buena Vista gets a green light, then the northern half of Chandler gets a green light, then Buena Vista gets another green, and then back to the southern road and the cycle repeats.
There is a crosswalk in the middle of the road for pedestrians and bikers, and painted lines that seem to indicate a stop line. There's also a second set of stop lights: these lights have special lenses which prevent you from seeing what color they are until you've entered the intersection, that is, if you're already traveling south on Buena Vista and approaching this intersection, you'll only see the first set of lights (hanging over the middle of the intersection) until you actually enter the intersection, once you're over the first crosswalk you'll be able to see the second set of lights (hung over the far side of the intersection) which are presumably also green. It is possible, however, for the first light (holding back traffic on Buena Vista) to be red, while the farther lights they can't see are green for traffic in the middle of intersection.
Say you're on the north half of the road, traveling west, as portrayed in the above linked scene, and wish to turn left so as to be southbound on Buena Vista. The right lane here is for right turns only, the left lane is for driving straight or turning left. There is no specific left-turn lane, and there is no left-green arrow. You are in the leftmost lane for westerly traffic.
When you get a green light, and if there's no opposing traffic, how much of a left turn can you make if the 'second set' of lights (hanging over the southernmost edge of this intersection) is red? That is, you start to turn left, then in the middle of the intersection, at the crosswalk (where the gray SUV is in the above image), you see the lights in front of you are red. Do you stop before driving over the crosswalk and wait for the green? Or can you drive all the way through and complete the left turn, driving over the middle crosswalk in the process?
