Lost LA S02E04 · Dream Factory

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Filmmaker Lois Weber rose to greatness in a nascent film industry that was open to women in creative leadership positions, while the Central Casting Bureau placed minorities in background roles and white actors in leading parts.

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1. 1 1. Borderlands2017-10-10 · 27mSettlement of southern California began long before America's triumphant march westward from the Atlantic coast, as evidenced by the interconnected lives of three people who lived
2. 2 2. Wild West2017-10-17 · 27mBefore Hollywood, Los Angeles was a real frontier town of gunslingers, lynch mobs, and locomotives. L.A. has been reckoning with that past by examining hanging trees, the massacre
3. 3 3. Building the Metropolis2017-10-24 · 26mWood, iron, steel, concrete: these materials gave form to Los Angeles and shaped its identity in the national imagination. But what of the city's cultural legacy and the environmen
4. 4 4. Dream Factory2017-11-07 · 24mFilmmaker Lois Weber rose to greatness in a nascent film industry that was open to women in creative leadership positions, while the Central Casting Bureau placed minorities in bac
5. 5 5. Coded Geographies2017-11-14 · 26mTwo underground guidebooks -- The Negro Travelers' Green Book and The Address Book -- reveal the hidden geographies many Angelenos had to navigate, exposing Los Angeles as a place
6. 6 6. Pacific Rim2017-11-21 · 27mAmericans have long looked at the California shore and seen the end of the continent, but that sandy edge is the beginning of a Pacific world -- one that has long influenced Los An