Here is a 1961 documentary film about the last ten days of the Red Car commuter train in Los Angeles. Alan Fishel filmed an entire run of the soon to be mothballed Red Car on the Pacific Electric Long Beach Line. It begins its journey at the Sixth and Main Street station in downtown L.A.
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Jeff Keen the British Film Artist Has Died
Paul Cézanne: The Artist’s Father Reading ‘L’Événement’ (1866)
The Drawings of Queen Victoria
Maria Popova at Brain Pickings has found a fascinating trove of drawings by England’s Queen Victoria. She is history’s longest reigning female monarch. It looks to me as though she enjoyed enlivening her letters with these wonderful little illustrations.
Line of Sight: A Film by Benny Zenga
You have to be young and crazy to ride this way. But it makes for an awesome film! This is a trailer for an upcoming documentary about bike messenger racers by Benny Zenga, made with helmet-cam footage taken by Lucas Brunelle over a ten year period.
Via Booooooom.com.