Redondo Beach was once a streetcar suburb of Los Angeles. A light rail line once ran diagonally across the LA metro area grid of streets that took riders directly from our neighborhood to downtown in less time than it takes today to drive on the freeway and in about half as much time as it takes on today's roundabout mass transit system. Grrr.
Anyway, here we are waiting to transfer from the green line (an elevated train) to the silver line (a bus on a dedicated bus lane on the freeway and then on regular surface streets). Notice both TFN and Bad Dad reading on their kindles.
The screening ran long because it was interrupted by technical problems. With three cameras and three aged strips of film, the likelihood of problems grew geometrically.
During intermission, we looked at the special camera used for cinerama filming and spoke to the film editor for all of the cinerama films and the son of the inventor of the camera. Do you know the connection between cinerama and Cold War U2 spy plane photos? Stay tuned.
BTW, the movie plays fast and loose with history. Listen to what University of Michigan's professor Eric Rabkin has to say about the Brothers Grimm.
I took this class (or one very similar to it) when I was an undergrad at Cal. It was one of my favorites and I still consider sci-fi to be vastly under rated as literature. I heard Ursula LeGuin give a talk about writing then that was most helpful when I was teaching writing. You've inspired me to take a Coursera class
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