Movie Description:
In 1949 photographer Don Normark stumbled on Chavez Ravine, a closely knit Mexican American village on a hill overlooking downtown Los Angeles.Enchanted, he stayed for a yearand tookhundreds of photographs, never knowing he was capturing on film the last imagesof a place that was about todisappear. The following year, thecity of L.A. evicted the 300families of Chavez Ravine to make way for a low incomepublic housing project. The land was deared,homes,schools,and church razed to the ground. But the real estate lobbysensinga great opportunity accusedL.A. Housing Authority`s Frank Wilkinsonof being a communist agent. The city folded and instead of building the promised housing, sold the land tobaseball owner Walter O`Malley,who built Dodger Stadium onthe site. Fifty years later, Normark`s haunting black and white photographs reclaim andcelebrate a lost village from asimpler time.
