| Commercial slum area | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 485 |
| Catalog #: | 441372 | |
| Clip Number: | 441372-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 597-3 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | USA | |
| Year Shot: | 1950 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | CITY PLANNING: Urban Renewal | |
| Description: | View of dirt pile in mountainous country. Dirty men in unknown setting. Waste land nice shots. Cute boy standing on upside-down garbage can. Still life in alley - brick wall and trash cans, same boy runs into shot and waves to camera. Busy streets - mostly male pedestrians on sidewalk in urban area, seems working-class. Store front. Car in alley. Clothes drying. View of shanty houses, Caucasian man in foreground doing something with his vehicle (not sure what). Poverty, slum, poor. Car drives through alley. Laundry hangs on line in back yard behind house. Caucasian boys hang out in alley, rummage through garbage can. Ext. pawn shop, pool hall. Working class white man crosses street, head down, carrying bag (looks kind of dejected, depressed), followed by another man walking with the aid of a cane. Ext. pawn shop, liquor store. Late 1940s or early 1950s. | |
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