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No loans today : South Central Los Angeles / a film by Lisanne Skyler.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pawnbroking--California--Los Angeles.
- Pawnbroking.
- Check cashing services--California--Los Angeles.
- Check cashing services.
- Poor--California--Los Angeles--Finance, Personal.
- Poor.
- Poor--California--Los Angeles--Interviews.
- African American business enterprises--California--Los Angeles.
- African American business enterprises.
- African Americans--Employment--California--Los Angeles.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--California--Los Angeles--Social conditions.
- African Americans--California--Los Angeles--Economic conditions.
- African Americans--California--Los Angeles--Attitudes.
- African Americans--California--Los Angeles--Interviews.
- Gangs--California--Los Angeles.
- Gangs.
- Economic conditions.
- Social conditions.
- African Americans--Employment.
- Finance, Personal.
- Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social conditions.
- Los Angeles (Calif.).
- Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Social conditions.
- Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.).
- California--Los Angeles.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Interviews.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (55 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- South Central Los Angeles
- Place of Publication:
- [Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2016]
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- Centering on the ABC Loan Co., a twenty-five year old pawnshop/checkcashing outlet, No Loans Today documents daily life in the African-American community of South Central Los Angeles. The film explores the lives of several people who've either chosen or been forced to remain in this community. With interviews and cinema-verité scenes of day-to-day living, No Loans Today examines the relationship between pawnshops and checkcashing outlets--also known as 'fringe banks'--to other economic problems that this community endures, such as crime and unemployment. The recent proliferation of fringe banks completes a cycle of economic marginalization that began when industries left the area and banks began to redline South Central against business loans. Portraying the pawnshop as a metaphor for survival, the film explores economic and psychological marginalization, and reveals the unseen resiliency of the people of this community.
- Contents:
- ABC Loan Company
- Art's Auto Body
- King's Original Hot Tamales
- McGary's Cafe
- Rite Tune Tune Up
- Hacienda Village Housing Project.
- Credits:
- Producer/director, Lisanne Skyler ; editors, Mark Redpath, Lisanne Skyler ; director of photography, Federico Salsano.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Lisanne Skyler, ©1995.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 8, 2016).
- Publisher Number:
- if-nolo Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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