motion pictures

Although California posted solid job gains last month in healthcare and in leisure and hospitality, employment fell back in other key parts of the state’s economy, including the beleaguered motion pictures industry, tech and manufacturing.

The strikes in Hollywood last year hurt motion pictures earnings.

There was no TV to take people’s minds off the raging war, little money for the motion pictures, not much else to do in a city that celebrated its political and cultural isolation.

Initially, Hollywood responded to this new status quo by removing reminders of 9/11 from their motion pictures.

County — almost all of that due to losses in motion pictures, where employment has been very slow to rebound after the Hollywood strikes last year.