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RECORD NUMBER: 24 OF 27Main Title | The exiles / | |||||||||||
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Publisher | Milestone Film & Video, Oscilloscope Laboratories, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 2009 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 467916954 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 1933920084; 9781933920085 | |||||||||||
Subjects | Urban Indians--North America ; Indians of North America--Migrations ; Indians of North America--History--20th century ; Indians of North America--California--Los Angeles--Social conditions ; Hispanic Americans--Employment--California ; Rodeo performers--United States ; Urban renewal--California--Los Angeles ; Gentrification--California--Los Angeles ; City planning--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century ; Los Angeles (Calif) ; Los Angeles (Calif)--History--20th century ; Los Angeles (Calif)--Social conditions--20th century ; Los Angeles (Calif)--Economic conditions--20th century ; Economic history ; Indians of North America--Social conditions ; Indians of North America--Drama ; Indians of North America--Migrations--Drama ; Indians of North America--California--Los Angeles--Social conditions--Drama ; Indians of North America--Urban residence ; Fiction films ; Documentary films ; Feature films ; Nonfiction films ; Educational films | |||||||||||
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Edition | 2-disc premiere edition. | |||||||||||
Collation | 2 videodiscs (72 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. | |||||||||||
Notes | Originally produced as a motion picture in 1961. Program notes laid in container. Copyright date from disc label. |
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Contents Notes | "The Exiles" of the title are displaced Native Americans, living in late 1950s Los Angeles on Bunker Hill, a depressed area connected to the rest of the city by the Angels Flight trolley. The Indians were already exiles, from the moment they lost their ancestral lands and were confined to reservations. Starting on Friday afternoon and closing Saturday morning, the film follows pregnant Yvonne, her husband Homer, and their Mexican acquaintance Tommy Reynolds. Yvonne cooks dinner, Homer and Tommy drop her off at an "all-nite" movie and go to a bar, where they join a group on a joyride out to a hill--Hill X--and drunkenly greet the morning with tribal songs and dancing, while Yvonne sleeps in her neighbor's bed. A beautifully photographed slice of down-and-almost-out life, this is a portrait of women and men who are depressed over their diaspora, poverty, loneliness, alienation, lack of education and opportunity, and trying to escape the grip of a durable Los Angeles nightmare |