1959 - Children At Play In New York City Slums 220639-08 | Footage Farm

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[1959 - Children At Play In New York City Slums]
Contrasts the lack of urban playground facilities w/ scenes of children playing in city streets, vacant lots & making imaginative use of whatever material comes to hand. Sound track consists entirely of actual sounds of children singing and talking.
Titles.
17:55:49 Little boy playing w/ ball on sidewalk against shop front. Children climb on cable core. Girls skipping rope on sidewalk. Boys play w/ cardboard boxes. Play w/ hoops on schoolyard, Black boy watching; another rolls hoop. Kids sitting bouncing on car bumper. Various shots kids playing on curbsides / sidewalks & in street.
17:57:14 Using various non-toys as toys e.g. cardboard cylinders; stilts from ??, roll tire. Playing on lumber outside decrepit building. Playing in gutter; on sidewalk & stoops.
17:58:49 Drawing w/ chalk on building, pavement. Nice shot two little Chinese American boys trying to jump up to reach police phone box / call box.
17:59:23 Little Black children playing on pavement, dropping sand on little girls head. Various other street games. Playing w/ playing cards; scooters; sliding on boards; hopscotch; group of kids w/ tiny kitten.
18:01:52 Walking balancing on park railings, walls in front of tenement blocks while saying what they’d like to become.
18:02:25 End credits.
Americana; Daily Life; 1950s; 1959; 1960s; Neighborhood Street Life; Children’s Games; Childhood; Ghetto; Spanish Harlem; Poverty; Working Class; Voices; Sociology; Slums; Ethnic; Documentary;
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