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South Bronx - 1965
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keywords: new york city, south bronx, el train, pigeon coop, shoe shine stand, stick ball, drug abuse
Synopsis: Life in 1960's South Bronx with its crowded conditions, poverty and other social issues facing it citizens...(read more)
- Date: 1965
- Duration: 00:29:17
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States
South Bronx 1965
Portrait of the South Bronx, New York City, in the 1960's where two-thirds of the population is black or Puerto Rican. Extensive views of overcrowded living conditions in a poverty-stricken, inner-city, ghetto. Street scenes of people and street traffic, NYC policeman or street cop. Man and boy polish and shine shoes on street. Art theatre marquee, Bar & Grill Cabaret, Gilroy & McLoughlin sign, South Bronx business store fronts, sounds of Puerto Rican music. People buying fruits and vegetables at sidewalk vendor stand.
Clothesline stretched between two buildings, children sitting on fire escape platform. Kids playing in street, climbing fire escape, two young boys fighting, wrestling in street, adults watching. Driver point of view POV automobile driving down a South Bronx Street. Young adults and men play stick ball in street. kid huffing a paper bag, inhalant abuse.
Mobile theatre brings Garcia Lorca to school yard for free theatre, poster of Garcia Lorca, Latin vaudeville. Sidewalk domino game. Families at St. Mary's Park ball field, South Bronx, New York City. Churches in the South Bronx. Ball field bleachers are full at St. Mary's ball field, play ball.
Shot List:
00:01:49;03
Low aerial view city building roof tops, kid flying kite, woman taking clothes from clothesline, flight of pigeons
00:02:37;06
Low aerial panning view of the South Bronx, New York City
00:02:57;11
Sight & sound of El train traveling down track in South Bronx, New York City
00:03:11;13
View of El train rails as El train is traveling down tracks, panning up to side view as buildings flash pass
00:04:28;03
Front view of approaching El train into station
00:05:06;04
New York City street cop or policeman
00:05:49;05
Man and boy polish and shine shoes on street, shoe shine
00:06:07;12
Art theatre marquee and South Bronx business storefronts
00:06:44;01
Fruit and vegetable street vendor stands
00:08:35;00
Clothes on clothesline between two buildings, family sitting on building fire escape platform
00:11:10;13
Two young boys fighting, wrestling in street, adults watching
00:11:52;00
Driver point of view POV automobile driving down South Bronx Street
00:12:45;02
Playing stick-ball in street
00:16:03;05
Inhalant abuse, kid huffing a paper bag
00:22:16;06
St. Mary's Park ball field, South Bronx, New York City
