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90023_43823_4.2_Super_8_1990s_Los_Angeles

1990s
B&W

Here's a B&W super 8 home movie of 1990s Los Angeles, focusing on the city’s middle to lower class communities like in South Central, freeways, and urban decay. This is clip 6 of 6. 

Begins with signs of Tristar Pictures and Sony Entertainment, large film studios. 

A nail salon has its prices advertised in its window. There’s then a tracking shot down an urban street. We see lots of businesses and a few murals.

We then see a series of interstate, freeway, and off-ramp signs, including: the I-10, Santa Monica Freeway, Normandie Avenue, Vermont Avenue, Hoover Street, Harbor Freeway, the I-110, Grand Avenue, the Convention Center, and Vernon Avenue.

The buildings of downtown Los Angeles are visible in the distance from the freeway.

After getting off the freeway, we see a shopping cart full of produce sitting on a sidewalk. Two hispanic men stand nearby — perhaps selling the produce to passing cars.

We see more tracking shots down urban streets. Signs seen include: Iglesia Evangelica Emmanuel, a church; Lorena’s Beauty Salon; and El Rancho Market.

The front of the George Washington Carver Junior High School is seen. People are walking in and out of one of the school’s buildings. Kids are playing soccer on a field, which is bordered by a large fence.

A mother walks hand-in-hand with her child, down a sidewalk and away from the camera. 

A Los Angeles Police Department vehicle is parked near the school. On the side of the vehicle are the words, “Protecting Our Future The Children of Los Angeles.”

A sign on a George Washington Carver Junior High School building reads, “A Safe School [is] Everyone’s Responsibility. Report Weapons On Campus. Call 1 (800) 954-HELP."

We then see downtown Los Angeles in the distance from a moving car on the freeway; downtown gets closer and closer. Signs seen on the freeway include: Pico Boulevard, Downtown, I-10 Santa Monica, and Adams Boulevard.

In the clip’s final shots, we see buildings and businesses from the freeway as well as other cars on the freeway. Other freeway signs seen include Arlington Avenue, Crenshaw Boulevard, La Brea Avenue, and Washington Boulevard.