Spirit of 77 in Los Angeles

An impressionistic movie of life in Los Angeles filmed during the centenary year 1976 and 1977. The movie intercuts scenes from life in Orange County and downtown LA with sequences depicting urban schools, inner-city neighbourhoods, a suburban street party, religious gatherings, a Pink Floyd ('Animals') concert, freeways, the beach, the mountain ski-slopes, and Disneyland. There is an emerging environmental awareness in the depiction of the energy, beauty and excess of LA life. The reportage is intercut with images and sounds from the press and news and music radio stations, including a station devoted to religious programming. For more about the movie, how it came to be made, and its reception at the time of Trump, go to https://johnhodgson.org/2020/05/23/ho...