Frank on Film...

When I was going to film school at UCLA in 1979, I made a documentary for my master’s thesis about the lack of affordable housing in Los Angeles. I compared Chavez Ravine to Pico Union where they were tearing down low-income housing and using federal funds from the CRA to expand Pep Boys Corporate headquarters. Frank narrates the section about Chavez Ravine, he gave me access to his press clippings to video tape and we shot him sitting on hillside overlooking Dodger Stadium. Consequently Frank helped me get my MFA! As a surprise and a thank you, my father-in-law, Dr. Robert Einstein, rebound all his huge clipping books because they were falling apart when he lent them to me.

Marsha Goodman