The B-Movie Maker Who Preserved the Music of L.A.’s Black Churches

The B-Movie Maker Who Preserved the Music of L.A.’s Black Churches

The Los Angeles filmmaker Jim Ball, who died in 2022, was known for b-movies.  1964’s Fraternity of Horror, a low-budget black-and-white horror film that would make Wes Craven blush. Night of the Demon, the 1980 Sasquatchploitation movie, banned for a decade in the U.K. for its gruesome depictions of castration and disembowelment. A host of 1970s gay male erotic videos. But Ball’s most important legacy, arguably, has nothing to do with the movie…