| Los Angeles Slum | ||
|---|---|---|
| Tape Master: | 1490 | |
| Catalog #: | 500303 | |
| Clip Number: | 500303-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | HFR-SFL-35-065 | |
| Timecode: | 02:39:32 - 02:42:45 | |
| Location: | Los Angeles, California, United States | |
| Year Shot: | 1950 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | BUILDINGS: Slums/Tenements BUILDINGS: Urban ECONOMICS: Poverty LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, California, Los Angeles | |
| Description: | Master 1490 - Tape 2 TLS somewhat seedy L.A. street scene, beefy young Chinese-American man wearing gray suit jacket & blue jeans crossing street behind blue delivery truck turning left; pan R to derelict white men walking along or standing on sidewalk outside Union Rescue Mission, three white men standing outside Victory Service Club, American flag hanging over doors. Panning TLS Union Rescue Mission, men standing out front, automobile traffic (inc gorgeous cream & blue Chevy Bel Air, unusual electric-powered trolley car, & station wagon ambulance) passing in FG; pan stops at Victory Service Club. Nice TLS several older white men (some paunched or swaggered by years of drink) wearing suit jackets & khakis walking along sidewalk outside California Clothing Store, bus passing in FG. (27-6) Nice TLS working class stiffs wearing blue jean jackets & green khakis, lone middle-aged black man with hands buried in pockets shuffling along seedy L.A. sidewalk, passing dirty storefronts. (27-7) Nice head-on TLS/MS two older white men-- their mien & clothes & gait haggard by years of poverty, abuse & drink-- walking, talking along slum sidewalk; old man on left w/ ill-fitting light blue jacket notices camera, smiles greatly. (27-8) TLS stout African-American man wearing shabby blue jacket exiting, descending steps of Skid Row Church, followed by several derelict older or middle-aged white men. TLSs other economically poor white men exiting Skid Row Church. (27-9) Great panning TLS men walking along seedy sidewalk, stop at Harry's Club (sponsored by Coca-Cola), outside which several white & black men stand & chat (segregated, natch). (27-10) Panning TLS row of houses in economically poor African-American neighborhood (Victorian & bungalows; kids play on stoop, man wearing service uniform cleans car). (27-11) | |
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