The Ray Morris films of Southern California consist of seven digital video files digitized from six reels of film depicting Southern California scenes recorded by Ray Morris. Ray Morris was a photographer for the Los Angeles Police Department. The films focus on various scenes and events in Southern California during the 1950s and 1960s, including Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty's New Year's message to the city in December 1961, the San Pedro Fisherman's Fiesta in 1957, a trolley car junkyard, and commercial fishing crews pulling into the Los Angeles Harbor. It is likely that most, if not all, of these films were made informally by Morris, rather than in an official capacity as photographer for the Los Angeles Police Department.

1 Gigabytes 9 digital files stored in 2 digital folders

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