Movie #3: Lost Angeles
This movie follows the emotional tale of Raymond Sanders as he struggles through the Great Depression, tries to understand World War 2, and ends with the beginning of the Cold War and the Space Race. Raymond, a young African American man born into a time period of rapid change of ideas and environments, has to be versatile in his jobs and lifestyle so as to succeed from the 1920s to the 1940s. Raymond studies airplane design, but has a burning desire to make it in Hollywood. His sister and best friend Lena is also in the airplane design field and was one of the most talented Lightening builders. Raymond is able to pursue his Hollywood dreams when he is the lead airplane manager for the movie Hell’s Angels. Raymond and Lena struggle with the racist KKK and are unable to find work during the Great Depression, and thus are forced to work as farm hands with Okies and Japanese migrants for a brief time in the 1930s. Here, Raymond meets a hardworking Japanese girl named Mae. Mae and Raymond fall in love, and are able to move back to urban Los Angeles at the outbreak of World War 2. Raymond is able to work in the airplane business and eventually is selected to be trained as space ship designer. These two characters have to be tough and brave if they want to be successful in such a challenging time period....