| SHANTY TOWN - BEETHAM Shanty Town Slum on Trinidad | ||
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| Tape Master: | 9115 | |
| Catalog #: | 23864 | |
| Clip Number: | 23864-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 4556 K | |
| Timecode: | 01:43:50 - 01:46:22 | |
| Location: | Trinidad & Tobago | |
| Year Shot: | 1972 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | BUILDINGS: Slums/Tenements ECONOMICS: Poverty LOCATIONS/CARIBBEAN: Trinidad & Tobago | |
| Description: | SHANTY TOWN - BEETHAM Terrible living conditions in Trinidad shanty town Shanty town near Beetham Highway on the island of Trinidad. Various shots of very poor housing conditions and rubbish in the streets. Really dilapidated shacks made of assorted pieces of wood and tin sort of thrown together with no particular order. People walking across muddy road. Somebody's yard - -a muddy space between two shacks, with clothes on clothesline, propane tanks, chicken walking about in the mud. More shots of shacks. MLS zoom out to LS young boy in big rubber boots stands in middle of "street"; dog and pig walk past. Teen girls hanging out. Nearly naked little boy cl age 5 wearing only a rag of a shirt, leaning against a really horrible looking rusted tin structure. Zoom out pan rt to show a whole row of the worst looking shacks & lean- tos leaning - to all up against each other in an amolgamous mess. CUs of painted numbers on some of the shanties. MS sow and piglets near a metal drum with coals burning in it. Shots of garbage - -piles of bottles etc. | |
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