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This is the first episode of a series of short films I am making with my partner 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. Please subscribe! And please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ChortkoffandR... #red car #pacific electric #electric #trains #jessicachortkoff #richriggio #street cars #lost angeles #california #history #transit #transitadvocate #JohnUlloth #railway #railfans

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

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

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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