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A Search for the Last (Pacific Electric) Red Car

This is the first episode of a series of short films we are making about the history of the Pacific Electric Railway. In particular the loved and fondly remembered red car! Way back in 2014 Jessica attended LACC and noticed remnants of train tracks that went right up to the school’s entrance! Later she moved to the San Fernando Valley. Rich and Jessica began to see remnants around their neighborhood as well! So we decided to keep exploring! One day our friend John Ulloth, who is a transit advocate, called us and let us know a red car had been returned to it’s original right of way in San Pedro! Unfortunately we had little time to react to the news as it was about to be torn out all over again! So we went on the very last day and we rode the very last red car that existed on it’s original tracks! Now I hear the old cars are in storage and termites are having at them as you read this. It was some sad news, but as you can see in the video, even on the last day John was not giving up! For the next episodes we plan to explore the Orange bus line, which now travels on paved streets were the train once ran. We also plan to visit the museum in Perris, CA where the very last trains in existence are carefully preserved. We had the best transit in the country and perhaps the world! We are slowly but surely returning the electric trains. But it isn’t cheap and is taking a very long time. Still, we are overjoyed that the trains are coming back. Even if they are not cute and red and beautiful like they once were. #red car #pacific electric #electric #trains #jessicachortkoff #richriggio #street cars #lost angeles #california #history #transit #transitadvocate #JohnUlloth

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Ladies Sing the Blues Live in Glendale California

Chortkoff and Riggio Presents: “Ladies Sing the Blues: an Event by LaLa Linda Cooper” Featuring: Sayed Sabrina Sharron Moore April Henry Bonnie Root Rachel Rizner Huntley The Coolers and many more special guests! Film shot and directed by Chortkoff and Riggio “Ladies Sing the Blues” event created by LaLa Linda. Special thanks: Everyone at “Therapy at the Roar Room!” The Flying Vs! ALL the ladies who sang and created art for this event! ALL the men who backed up their ladies! Rose Davis Schwab and all our other Roar Room friends, fans and supporters! This is for you! Also thank you all the SONGWRITERS! Piece of my Heart-Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns Mean Mean Man- Wanda Jackson Hip Shake- Slim Harpo I Put a Spell on You- Jay Hawkins Hoochie Coochie Man- Willie Dixon These Boots are made for Walkin- Lee Hazlewood Dirty Dealing- Vince White Into the Mouth of the Serpent- Sayed Sabrina https://sayedsabrina.bandzoogle.com/home http://aprilhenrymusic.com/bio.html http://sharronlive.com/ https://shoutoutla.com/meet-bonnie-ro… https://www.rachelriznerandtheresonat… http://voyagela.com/interview/rising-… Thank you Pasadena Weekly for the write up! https://www.pasadenaweekly.com/arts_a… #youtube #chortkoff #riggio #jessica-chortkoff #rich-riggio #LaLa #Linda #Cooper #Therapy_at_the_Roar_Room#roarroom#california #los angeles #blues #Ladies-sing-the-blues #sayed-sabrina #sharron-moore #Bonnie-root #christineh #the-coolers #Vince-white #Van-life#art#music#glendale #April #henry #female #empowerment #women

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Sunny Cheeks and Little Girl: A House Finch Drama

These were two of our best friends in the whole world. Sometimes you set out to make a really happy beautiful film but nature has other ideas. "House Finch eye disease was first noticed in 1994 by FeederWatchers in the Washington, D.C., area. Birds infected with this disease (also called Mycoplasmal conjunctivitis) have red, swollen, runny, or crusty eyes. In extreme cases the eyes become swollen shut and the bird becomes blind. You might observe an infected bird sitting quietly in your yard, clumsily scratching an eye against its foot or a perch. While some infected birds recover, many die from starvation, exposure, or predation." -Project Feeder Watch If you see a finch with this disease please join Project Feeder Watch! https://feederwatch.org/learn/house-f...

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See You In Simi: A Nature Documentary by Chortkoff and Riggio

Join Jessica and Rich as they explore the historic Simi hills of the San Fernando Valley. Watch them as they interact with all the little critters who reside in the rock and scrub covered environment. Simi Valley is known from its many roles in western films and television shows. Video, photos, and editing by Jessica Chortkoff. Written and produced by Chortkoff and Riggio.

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Betty B. Dearing Trail: Nancy Hoover Pohl Overlook Short Path

Rich Riggio and Jessica Chortkoff bring the audience along on another local Hollywood/Studio City hike, this time taking the shorter side of the Betty Dearing Trail, which veers to the right from Nancy Hoover Pohl Overlook. From the LA Times: "Nancy Hoover Pohl was an environmental activist who fought to preserve Fryman Canyon and other areas of the Santa Monica Mountains. In 1952, she persuaded Los Angeles to regulate hillside growth. When officials threatened to build the Laurel Canyon Freeway in the 1970s, linking Los Angeles International and Palmdale airports but slicing through the Santa Monica Mountains en route, Pohl took her lobbying to Sacramento."  http://articles.latimes.com/2001/sep/...

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Betty B. Dearing Trail from Wilacre Park

Join Jessica Chortkoff and Rich Riggio as they hike on trail and off, view a beautiful sunset, photograph several species of birds, get chased by a giant tarantula, and ponder Betty Dearing. The Wilacre Park entrance is right off of Laurel Canyon Blvd. at Fryman Place. Bring leases for your dogs, they will love this hike! If you live in Hollywood or Studio City and don't know about this, it's right under your nose, check it out! Wild life is everywhere and the air is fresh. Right now there are thousands of flowers blooming and the hillsides are nice and green and beautiful! Om!

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Fireworks in Studio City

Jessica and Rich take the viewer along while the look at life fireworks light the sky and the Los Angeles River below. Universal Studios does a show like this every year. But not this year. "Stars and Stripes Forever" by John Philip Sousa

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Don't Look Up: A film about the 2017 solar eclipse

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Total Lunar Eclipse 2022

From Space.com: Full moons happen when the Moon is on the opposite side of the Earth from the sun, so the timing of moon phases depends on one's time zone. Since the Earth is directly between the sun and moon, one might expect that the moon would enter the Earth's shadow every 28.5 days (this is the time it takes the moon to make a circuit of the Earth). That doesn't happen, because the moon's orbit is tilted slightly – about 5 degrees – to the plane of the Earth's orbit, so most of the time the moon "misses" the shadow of the Earth and we see a full moon. A lunar eclipse has several phases. The first and last is the penumbral eclipse when the moon is in the penumbra, the lighter part of the Earth's shadow. Looking at the moon there isn't any obvious difference – it gets a little darker, and some people say it looks a little more yellow or brownish than usual, but there's no dark shadow line. The next phase is called the partial eclipse when the moon enters the dark part of the Earth's shadow; this is also called the umbral phase. During the middle of the eclipse, we get totality, when the moon is completely inside the umbra and turns a characteristic red. The full moon of May is often called a flower moon, and the term comes from the blooms that appear in North America around that time; Algonquin-speaking peoples in the northeastern part of the continent such as the Ojibwe (or Anishinaabe), called it something similar (Waawaaskone Giizis, which means "flower moon" according to the Ontario Native Literacy Coalition The Cree called it Athikipisim, or Frog Moon, as May is when frogs tend to become active. Both Anishinaabe and Cree traditions reflect the environment in northeastern North America, where the two peoples live. https://www.space.com/36655-may-full-... #Jessicachortkoff #chortkoffandriggio #flowermoon #supermoon #totaleclipse #lunareclipse #earthsshadow #bloodmoon

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Total Lunar Eclipse 2019

The first full-moon of 2019, the "wolf-moon," took place while the moon was at perigee, making it also a "super-moon." For a little over and hour on the night of January 20 the super-wolf-blood-moon occurred when the earth's shadow shrouded it's satellite in red. See the whole event in this sped up film from Chortkoff and Riggio Productions!

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