Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John is sharing selections from the Off-Ramp vault to help you explore this imperfect paradise.
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KPCC's John Rabe interviewed Vince Gonzales (ABOVE ITEM) about his vintage equipment photography project at a workshop at USC's film school ... the workshop of German Pinchevsky, who fixes old movie cameras. But, as John discovered during the interview, decades ago, the Soviet emigree was in the special effects department of Mosfilm, and worked on "Andrei Rublev," "Solaris," and other legendary films.