Hahn said she was asked by some whether she was afraid of starting a precedent. "Eminent domain is supposed to be reserved for the use of public good," Mitchell said, "but housing convenants and zoning throughout Los Angeles history has been divisively used by governments and others to keep a community down." Supervisor Holly Mitchell, who co-authored the motion, said this was just one example of "property lost, of dreams deferred,'' pointing to how the construction of the Santa Monica (10) Freeway and Chavez Ravine split neighborhoods and destroyed wealth. and the only thing keeping it from being returned is racism." "You all have the ability to set this right," one resident told the board, calling the transfer an opportunity for genuine reparations. Several members of the public urged the board to support Hahn's motion. "Sadly, the Bruce story is not unique here in California or across this nation," Bradford said during a news conference with Hahn in Manhattan Beach earlier this month. Now the city is confronting its racist past.
#The family secret 1924 series
You can read the next post in this series here.Black families settled in Manhattan Beach in the early 1900s, but the city chased them out. If you missed the previous post, you can read it here. This will be the topic of my next post on this subject. There was, however, a budgetary hurdle to surmount, one that surprised me and which most people who buy a physical media release from an indie label aren’t aware of. I was willing to deal with all this when the prospect of releasing the restored When Knighthood Was In Flower on replicated Blu-ray - or as a DVD/Blu-ray combo pack - became a definite prospect. One big takeaway that I learned was that being part of the warehouse workflow on just one title was way more mental labor and focus every month than I’d had on all my other CreateSpace releases (which was almost zero). I learned a lot.ĭon’t get me wrong – I’ll still release Baby Peggy films or anything else I think deserves to be available. The details of all the things I tried, and how I dispensed of the 300 units sitting in a storage facility with a monthly bite, can be the subject of another post.
#The family secret 1924 mod
Five years later, I made this title an MOD release, after selling around 200 out of those 500 copies. This release was my first encounter and lesson with guessing what will sell well. Learned the labyrinthine steps to getting The Family Secret listed on Amazon and to having each order fulfilled as it came in. The process and steps to have the company who replicated the discs fulfill the orders involved both an Excel spreadsheet and my having to remember to take care of the orders. I didn’t trust my schedule to be able to effectively handle this. Then there’s the procedure of getting each order fulfilled. There’s a lot of terminology and hard-to-grasp internal logic on the process. There were several calls placed to Amazon’s seller support at least, aiding me in setting up The Family Secret for release. The Amazon “Pro” seller account, which is what’s required, comes with a monthly fee. But the difference between CreateSpace making each DVD and having it automatically listed on Amazon and making the product myself and setting it up for Amazon to sell and for it be fulfilled by them or me or by the duplicator was a lot more work for Ben. Plus, I wanted to do this as a trial-balloon for releasing something like When Knighthood Was In Flower (1922) so I’d already have gone through the steps when it came time for a bigger release. I figured I had a shot at selling that many copies. The film was scheduled to air on Diana Serra Cary’s birthday. But, I figured…Baby Peggy was a bigger name than “Musty Suffer” (my release previous to Family Secret) and I’d licensed the film with my score to TCM. This release was being funded by a different method and source than my Kickstarted projects, and I didn’t need 200-250 copies to send out to backers. Or at least it was when I released The Family Secret (1924) starring Baby Peggy and restored by The Library of Congress, back in 2015.
If you’re pressing DVDs, the minimum order is 500 pieces. Clyde Cook in The Misfit (1924), seen here in a frame grab from the HD scan of my 16mm Kodascope print the film is available on Accidentally Preserved: Volume 1 But the cost and the order fulfillment hassle with pressed, for an indie like Undercrank (which is me), is significant enough to opt for burned product. With DVDs the choice between the two isn’t as large a financial outlay as it is with Blu-ray. In my last post I mentioned some of the basic technological differences between pressed and burned product, replicated and duplicated.
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