Chávez Ravine : a Los Angeles Story /

This documentary captures how a community was betrayed by greed, political hypocrisy, and good intentions gone astray. Don Normark's haunting photographs evoke a lost Mexican-American village in the heart of downtown LA, razed in the 1950's to build an enormous low-income housing project....

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Tiny Projects, Bullfrog Films
Other Authors:	Mechner, Jordan (Director, Producer), Marin, Cheech (Narrator), Normark, Don, 1928- (Producer, Photographer)
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	English
Language Notes:	Closed-captioned.
Published:	Oley, PA : Bullfrog Films, [2004]
Subjects:	Mexican Americans > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century. Mexican Americans > California > Los Angeles > Social conditions. Chávez Ravine (Los Angeles, Calif.) > History > 20th century. Chávez Ravine (Los Angeles, Calif.) > Social conditions > 20th century. Documentary films. Short films. Nonfiction films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

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Summary:	This documentary captures how a community was betrayed by greed, political hypocrisy, and good intentions gone astray. Don Normark's haunting photographs evoke a lost Mexican-American village in the heart of downtown LA, razed in the 1950's to build an enormous low-income housing project. Instead, the federally purchased land was used for Dodger Stadium.
Item Description:	Includes original and classroom (bleeped) versions of the film. Videorecording.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (24 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	DVD-R; this disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.
Production Credits:	Directed by Jordan Mechner ; produced by Jordan Mechner, Don Normark, Andrew B. Andersen, Mark Moran ; photographs by Don Normark ; music by Ry Cooder.
ISBN:	1594582467 9781594582462