Break and Enter (1971, sound)

Description: Made by the Newsreel collective in New York City, this film shows "Operation Move-in," in which Puerto Rican and Dominican families actively reclaimed unused, vacant housing on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
Newsreel #62. "This film captures the militant antecedents to today's housing reclamation movement in New York City. In 1970, several hundred Puerto Rican and Dominican families reclaimed housing left vacant by the city. They pulled the boards off the doors, cleaned and repaired the buildings and moved in. BREAK AND ENTER documents the activist work of Operation Move-In and the city's attempts to displaced the families." (www.twn.org/catalog/pages/responsive/cpage.aspx?rec=894&card=price. accessed: 2024-05-08)
Spanish title: Rompiendo Puertas. Also known as SQUATTERS.
Further information on Operation Move-In is here: www.nytimes.com/1970/04/24/archives/poor-families-taking-over-condemned-buildings.html?searchResultPosition=3
www.nytimes.com/1970/11/18/archives/police-arrest-32-at-squatter-site-protesters-back-3-in-illegal.html?searchResultPosition=2
www.nytimes.com/1970/10/11/archives/squatters-cast-doubt-on-housing-plans-squatters-cast-doubt-over.html?searchResultPosition=4
(accessed September 7, 2023).
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Subjects: 1970s, Latina/o/x/e and/or Hispanic people, People of African origin or descent, Latina/o/x/e and/or Hispanic history and culture , Black history and culture , Real estate, Housing, Cities, Activism, Poverty, Racism--Resistance to
Tags: urban renewal; demolition; bricks; streets; tenements; bulldozers; destruction; stoops; buildings; kitchens; man cooking rice; moving; stairwells; welfare; public housing; City Of New York West Side Urban Renewal Area sign; social services; gentrification; Puerto Rican people; service workers; cashiers; factory workers; working class people; marching in the streets; protests; tricycles; squatters; people power; transports; smoking; Operation Move-In; painting; songs; guitars; raised fists; food coops; newspapers; Unidad Latina; radicalism of the 1960s and 1970s; community organizing; squatter activism; tenants rights; women activists; feminism; childcare; community parenting; narration; interviews
Film Sponsor:
Creator: Newsreel
Credits:
Distributor:
Contributor: Roger Beebe
Source Collection: Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive
Production Date:
Release Date: 1971
Geographical Location: New York City, New York; USA; New York
Genre/Form: activist, documentary
Language: eng,spa
Rights:
Film Format: 16mm film
Element:
Color: b&w
Color Process:
Sound or Silent: sound
Film Soundtrack Type: variable area
Edge Code:
Frame Rate: 24 fps
Length (feet): 1462