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HARLEM, NY

220307 09:05:24 - 09:05:54 1930s B/W Si Father Divine Vendor Making Ices
Peanut Stall - Ice cream stall - Black children waiting while cone being made. Sign Peace and Love on barrow.
Depression

20307 09:20:27 - 09:21:04 1935 Si B/W USA

Harlem Heavily Guarded after Night of Riots
125th street. People on sidewalk watch workmen replacing glass. Police guard. Blacks walking on pavement as whites point out broken glass. Blacks out of patrol wagon some with bandages.

221011 04:16:36 - 04:24:27 1936 Si B/W USA

[Harlem Street Scenes & Father Divine's Establishments Pt1]
VS coal truck truck painted with signs re peace, righteousness and God inc. ‘Father Divine Is Love’ plus ‘Authorized dealer for Salem Hill coal’; coal down chute. Delivery truck w/ similar peace messages.
04:18:46 Black men and boys sitting outside ‘Prosperity Barber Shop’, men enter; CUs shop sign. Ext ‘Father Divine Delicatessen and Grocery’. Sign re Father Divine’s Headquarters have moved. People in and out of ‘The Sweet Shop’ w/ ‘peace’ on sign.
04:20:55 Women dressed in white enter door with sign ‘Peace to All’ and ‘We Thank You Father’. Women entering and leaving.
04:22:04 Summer - NYC street scenes - pedestrians - traffic. Black kids play in the street. Tenement buildings.
04:24:01 Father Divine estate - mansion and trees.

221011 04:24:28 - 04:30:25 1936 Si B/W USA

[Harlem Street Scenes & Father Divine's Establishments Pt2]
Ext ‘New Day laundry and furniture store’. Peace signs on windows. Window of ‘Sunshine Dress Shop’ w/ assistant inside.
04:26:18 Ext large town house; CU number 1887. Ext ‘Fish Fruits and Vegetable Market’, man painting sign. Ext ‘Peace Tailor Shop’.
04:28:34 Sign over shoe shine parlor ‘Peace Shine 3 cents’ w/ vendor at ice cream stall making ices in FG; Black children waiting for cone. Man at peanut stall. Ice cream cart painted w/ ‘God is Love’ etc.

220789 05:47:13 - 05:54:58 1937 SD B/W USA

We Work Again
Documentary: On the employment of Negroes in Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects.
Depression scenes, black men on doorsteps and street corners. Young black men whittling. Line of unemployed black men and women.
Montage Black people working in Federal Work programmes intercut with breadlines.
05:48:50 Black labourers reporting to construction office for work assignments. Labourers work on road improvements.
05:49:45 New York City, WPA demolition project underway, old blocks of flats being torn down for new housing. Building of new bath house next to swimming pool in Harlem.
05:50:36 Swimming pool - children off diving boards and in pool. Colonial park paddling pool and playground area, swings and slides.
05:51:34 Nursery school, kids playing and eating. Getting medicine from nurse. Afternoon rest, kids asleep.
05:52:07 Adult education, older women learning to read and write. Adults in Spanish language class. Clerical workers in the WPA scheme, filing cards, working in land records offices. Women in typing pool.
05:53:15 Household training schools, black women having domestic science / cookery lesson. Cooking, turning mattress on bed, making beds. Healh education, hospital.
05:54:38 Community sewing rooms.

220789 05:55:20 - 06:02:40 1937 B/W SD We Work Again Reel 2
Documentary: On the employment of Negroes in Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects.
Programmes available within WPA for negro artists, musicians and actors. William Lawrence directs an art song group. Group of black singers grouped round piano sing without accompaniment,
05:56:49 Choir directed by Juanita Hall sing negro spiritual.
05:58:39 Negro Theater Unit perform a scene from Macbeth.

220317 23:18:55 - 23:21:19 1938 ? B/w Si Harlem Street scenes.
Good shots with pedestrians. 127th Street & Lenox Avenue ? summertime, with pedestrians and traffic.
23:19:36. Street scenes, children playing in streets, people sitting on stoops (steps). Groups of men standing around talking. Tenement buildings - street games. Father Divine Estate.
Depression

220458 & 200532 04:17:10 - 04:30:42 1939 Si b/w USA

Even in this Day and Age: A Review of Major Forces Tending to Produce Social Breakdown.
Title card: The purpose of this picture is to encourage THOUGHT, DISCUSSION, ACTION; to remedy demoralizing influences.
Overhead shot of busy NYC city streets, pedestrians on pavement, traffic, tram or streetcar, bridge, newspaper stand. Schoolchildren past camera in group. Bus drops off children. Girls out of school gates. Boys play fighting on lawn. Girls play game.
04:19:56 Farmer on tractor in field; hand sharpens scythe. LS looking down wide street of small town or suburban. Girls on lawn outside middle class home skipping / jump rope. CU bread sliced & put in toaster. CU Opening refrigerator door & showing its full of food.
04:20:59 Rooftops of large city housing, two women sit w/ babies. Street with people hanging out outside houses, sitting on steps, children playing. Migrant workers in cardboard & wood makeshift house among brush. Mothers in tattered clothes hold three crying, ill-looking babies. Two groups of teenage boys facing each other shown game by man.
04:22:20 Children play in street blocked off with sign “ Driving thru a play street is a traffic violation” and ‘Play street closed’. Pedestrians walking. Chinatown, signs in Chinese. Men & storefronts. Lower East Side & kosher poultry shop. Jewish men talking beneath Hebrew signs. Women at market vendors.
04:23:39 Harlem sidewalk & pedestrians. Black kids playing on sidewalk, men talking. Children drawing on pavement. White old lady. Speaker at consciousness-raising meeting - shot as shadows.
04:24:55 Striking workers picketing. Demonstration w/ fighting & teargas. Injured & violence; throwing stones at cars.
04:25:30 Cars on Westside Highway, NYC. Neon signs advertising alcohol, liquor. Alcohol poured in glass by shaky hands, spills, CU drunken hands can’t open car with keys, CU steering wheel & hand grabbing. Limp hand in hospital clothes put under blanket. CU Cigarette burning. Smoking cigarette in ashtray. CU newspaper article with ‘doped cigarette’ underlined, “Marijuana”. Hand holds cigarette w/ smoke.
04:27:20 Group of young men rolling dice, drinking and gambling. CU raffle form, punchcard. Headline ‘Sweeps winners”, front page America’s Turf Authority paper. Men with cigars fill in betting forms. Church raffle and bingo. Headline ‘Bingo banned by Lutherans’.
04:29:00 Boys stealing from fruit stand. Burglar breaking into gas station, searching drawer. CU girl’s hand stealing purse out of lady’s handbag, caught.
04:30:02 Chain gang walking in front of guard.

220775 10:22:41 - 10:26:02 1939 si B/W USA

[New York - Harlem Street Scenes]
1939. Black Woman walking away from camera toward crowd outside Rhythm club. Horse & wagon past. Fire truck in street & people watching; traffic past. 2 police watch. People watching loading of ladders & back out. Storefronts & traffic between camera and sidewalk. West 130th St. Harlem Seafood sign; woman selling scarves; woman selling ices. Pedestrians past posters & furniture for sale on sidewalk.
(Immigration)

220775 10:26:05 - 10:28:48 1939 si B/W USA

[New York - Harlem Housing Project, 1939]
1939. Woman pulling pram toward brick houses which face 7th Ave. Plaque Harlem River Houses. Black kids playing under young trees in courtyard. Pool. Scooters. Building site looking toward Queens bridge. Queensbridge Housing Project under construction. 6 story buildings. Sign: built by New York Housing Authority. High angle shot of large construction project & men pouring concrete & wheeling around on roof.

X 220485 06:01:09 - 06:17:53 1941 SD B/W usa

Murder On Lenox Avenue R1 of 4
Colonnade Pictures Corp., 1941
Prod./Dir. Arthur Dreifuss; Scr. Frank Wilson, Vincent Valentini and Bryna Ivens
With Mamie Smith, Alex Lovejoy, Norman Astwood, Gus Smith et al.
06:01:49 Montage: W. 125th St, Lenox Ave. street sign, view down Lenox Ave, Blacks crossing, cars on bustling city streets w/ Harlem traffic.
06:02:13 Studio set: Front of brownstone apartments. Pedestrians, policeman hassles black man to move along, woman sells pies from baskets on sidewalk, singing.
06:02:54 INT Black jazz musicians practicing, conductor animated. Three black women in apartment above. Pa Wilkins & daughter Ola in living room, all complain. VS two Black men fight in rooming house hall, residents crowd round.
06:04:47 Girls on stairs: “The very idea, a brawl in our place of residence...why we’ve got our reputations to protect”. Gun fired; crowd outside house; Black policemen break up fight - hunchback Lomax picking on Black immigrant. Pa Wilkins hides gun; thanked by immigrant.
06:06:54 Sister Hattie comes home: “Another fight! Is there never gonna be no peace for us, Pa?” “Peace is something you gotta work for and earn”.
06:07:39 Mom home, daughter takes bag. Pie seller sings on street, Mr Marshall in smart suit & hat tells her to start proper business w/ help of Better Business League. Girl [Rosalia] in the hallway pleads w/ Jim to marry her.
06:09:45 Pa Wilkins & Jim argue w/ Ola about going to college and boyfriend Gregory who is pro civil rights. “He wants to work for our people & educate them!” Pa & Jim talk; look at photo of Jim’s dead father.
[Stilted dialogue.]
06:12:00 Jim chats up singer (Juditha) w/ jive at all-Black bar: “I dug you when I first lamped you...I wouldn’t jive you, cause you’re as fine as wine!” Girl goes to sing w/ band; Black audience in smart dress clap. Jim watches her & smiles, empties glass. Marshall walks up & Jim asks how Business League is doing; he says great.
06:14:28 Jim orders a ‘Brown Bomber’ cocktail at bar; barman confused (gag) opens cocktail list, picks up several bottles, scratches head. Jim watches singer; barman pours drink; Jim takes sip & makes face: “That don’t taste like no Brown Bomber!” Takes another sip: “But its good.” Singer finishes number & joins Jim at bar [scene ends abruptly].
Oddities; Race Films; Ghettos; Poverty; Segregation; Morality; Neighborhoods; Civil Rights;

220950 22:22:21 - 22:24:24 1943 SD B/W USA

Legs Ain’t No Good
Minoco Prod. 542-1-124
w/ Edna Mae Harris & Slim Thomas
SOUNDIES ARE PD. MUSIC RIGHTS MUST BE CLEARED!
Flipped. CU woman putting on nylon stockings, checks watch & leaves apartment and sings, man in checkered suit sings to her. Group of women at soda fountain sitting with skirts pulled up. Couple tap style dance as they watch. She hoists her skirt at end.
Musical gags; Racial stereotyping; Ethnics; Blacks; Negroes; Art Deco decoration; Harlem set;

220788 04:40:03 - 04:51:56 1945 SD B/W USA

One Tenth of a Nation - Coloured / Black contributions to the United States.
Business - industrial shots - Blacks working at machinery etc - in laboratory - using adding machine. Man working at heavy machine. Black woman working as fabric tester. Office full of Black women clerks / secretaries working. Black woman working as department store credit manager - woman bank teller.
Interior office of James Temple Jnr of St Louis - employed as engineer - looking at plans. Woman - Ora Higgins who is personnel manager for large mail order house - interview other woman.
Willard S. Townesend President of United Service Transport Employees - labor leader.
Annual convention of National Negro Business league - various stands. Business leader of the year awarded to Chicago businessman S. P. Fuller. Pan round delegates at convention.
George Sevelle in office - he built business empire after inventing new paint cleaner and preserver - won contract with service stations. Sevelle crew arrive at Minute Man Service station and clean paintwork at gas station. Magazines displayed re George Sevelle.
Philadelphia businessman W. C Wingate - built business empire supplying barber and beauty supplies. Wingate walks from office into stockroom where his son Bill Wingate Jnr works. Customer being served. Carpentry department making cabinets for Beauty and Barbers shops.
Exterior Rose Meta House of Beauty - interior offices with Olivia Park Stanford working at desk. Hairdressing salon - women having hair dressed, overseen by Olivia.
Bank exteriors - interiors - coloured customers queue. Exteriors insurance firms. Interior offices, C. C. Spalding founder of North Carolina Mutual at desk with another man. Exterior Savings and Loan Associations. Couple in office with manager. Montage businesses run by coloured people. Interior pharmacy - customer being served. Exterior Hotel Theresa - Harlem shops. Exterior and interior Ray Robinson Enterprises. Exterior Pittsburgh Courier - owner and Editor in Chief discussing paper in office. Society office of newspaper - printing presses. Black students at Manhattan Empire Linotype school - owner of school Edwin Jenkins
Bison Bus Lines of Washington DC, the only Black-owned and run bus company in America. Pan along group of drivers. Buses along road.
Chicago airport - Black-owned Lake light aircraft service. Small monoplane taxis. Owner William Barnett.
Exterior Means Bros Real Estate Gary Indiana- Owner Andrew Means. Dream home - Black couple leave with estate agents. Construction site - builders. Pan along suburban housing estate.

X 220938 01:01:13 - 01:21:51 1948 SD B/W usa

The Quiet One Pt. 1 of 3
Film Documents Inc.
01:02:28 Nature shots; boys in bushes whistling; Black boy blowing bubble w/ gum; other boys playing; young Black boy Donald Peters on tree trunk by river. (Psychiatrist does VO) CU boy w/ sunglasses reading mail. Donald plays cards w/ man by river.
01:05:39 Black boy w/ mailbag approaches Wiltwyck School for Boys at Esopus, NY & passes letters thru broken window to boys in schoolroom; Black female teacher w/ student. VS children in schoolroom; all but one Black. CU teacher writes on blackboard.
01:08:06: CUs boy’s face & family photo w/ father’s head out of shot. Poor NYC ghetto streets, Donald’s grandmother searches for him; various Blacks. Grandmother shouts at Donald as he climbs stairs; plays cat’s cradle w/ string & scolded by grandmother; “Bad blood, like I always said, and I know who he’s got it from.”
01:11:51 Grandmother whips him w/ belt; makes peanut butter sandwich; Donald washes face; grandmother pours him milk while putting belt back on. CU Donald drinking milk.
01:13:48 Streets of NYC Harlem ghetto, kids going to school past large sign board for Kellogg’s Rice Krispies. Donald w/ grandmother; arrives at school then runs away. Pan Donald wanders poor neighborhood streets. Whites & Blacks, shopfronts, old men on steps, women w/ children; smoking. Men at work, unload sofa from truck, chop ice under elevated subway.
01:17:47 Donald at window of barber shop; CU men have haircuts. Man w/ sunglasses appears. Donald crosses street w/ bus and cars.
01:19:31 Donald on sofa, bored; looks at painting and family pics. Whips hand w/ belt; eats bread; steals money from purse in drawer & cup on shelf.

X 220383 13:01:01 - 13:10:42 1950s Sd B/W USA

The Vanishing “El”
Presented by Sterling Films; If Things Could Talk series.
13:01:23 Traffic around New Jersey entrance Lincoln Tunnel; passengers boarding four-engine plane; streamliners along river. Elevated subway railroad car.
13:01:43 Subway yards w/ elevated cars, pan across.
13:02:04 Third Avenue Elevated tracks w/ three car train past from street w/ Chrysler Building. Drawing of original el, photographs. 1950s shot in Lower Manhattan & various shots from below.
13:02:45 Gabled station on Elevated Platform & covered stairs, people walking up. Platform as trains come in. Driver leaving.People in car holding straps. POV along train, express passing local. Thru Bronx park & Botanical Gardens.
13:04:05 View from in car; overhead of train heading downtown. POV from cab & interior w/ driver at controls. View over ornate cast iron supports in Bronx w/ tenaments behind. Past buildings intercut w/ driver. Tenements & clothes lines. Around big curve & over Harlem River, train s on bridge going uptown & downtown. Kids diving into Harlem River & on piers.
13:05:38 View along track w/ trains in both directions thru Spanish Harlem. Large construction projects. Int. of cars w/ upholstered seats. Waldorf Astoria towers. Various skyscrapers.
13:06:52 Forty-Second St. station & traffic beneath w/ trams aka trolleys. scenic view of Chrysler Building. Views of Lower East Side from Brooklyn. Kids fighting on streets & hanging out on street corner; girls w/ dolls. Shadows & traffic on street under overhead platform. Chinatown signs. Bums in doorway. Barbershop; man sleeping on sidewalk. LS of two trains in Chatham Square. Woolworth building beyond stairs w/ woman & child down. Views of trains in narrow corridors thru buildings. Wall Street & station w/ pot-bellied stove. Tight curve at docks w/ freighters & pulling in to South Ferry. Harbor w/ freighters & ships. statue of Liberty. Sightseeing guide pointing up for tourists, old & young. People hanging out windows alongside tracks.
Transportation; Elevated Trains; Poverty; Street Scenes; New York City Daily Life; NYC; 1950s; IRT Third Avenue LIne;
NOTE: South Ferry was opened August 26, 1878. South Ferry Spur was closed Dec. 22, 1950. 12May55 Chatham Square to 149th St. in Bronx closed. Balance closed in April 1973.

220756 20:14:05 - 20:21:30 1961 col Si Housing, apartments, slums, ghetto.
Kids on stoop. Men over table & blue prints. Interior of apartments. CU faces. Policeman on street. Vegetable seller on streets. Policeman walking beat. Black youth, people sitting in windows & in front of boarded up buildings. Garbage in midst of apartment courtyard. Clothes on line. Graffiti. High angle kids playing. Wrecking ball & bricks falling. Meeting with people in suits. Pamphlet Housing Act of 1961.

220756 20:22:00 - 20:30:50 1961 col Si [Housing - Apartments, Ghetto, Reconstruction]
Policeman. Apartment block model. Meeting w/ men in suits. Ghetto slum apartments w/ people in windows. Construction workers. Kitchen & bathroom module assembled. Delivered & raised by crane, Brooklyn bridge in background. CU locks, peepholes, trash disposal chute. Construction workers gutting building. Sign 5th Street Mother. Black family packing suitcase, moving vans. Construction workers on roof of building, Men in hardhats watching lowering of module through roof. Wiring module. Old bathroom. Crane at work.

220756 20:30:51 - 20:41:40 1961 col Si [Housing - Apartments, Ghetto, Reconstruction]
Crane raising module & lowering into place. Attaching plumbing & vents. Builders finishing interior floors, insulating. Installing windows & ceiling. Completed rooftop. 20.35.15 Dedication by Mayor Lindsay w/ WNYC mic visible. Federal (?) official speaking. Raising module by crane. CU residential guide for rehabilitation. Men & blueprints. Ext. & interior of rehabilitated apartment. Federal officials meeting. Pamphlets. Street view of vacant lot paved. People in windows.

X 221326 07:31:18 - 07:40:19 1963 SD B/W USA

Harlem Crusader [Part 1 of 3]
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films - edited for classrooms version of NBC feature Manhattan Battleground, produced by William Jersey following White social worker Dan Murrow of American Friends Services Committee & his efforts to improve poor Black & Puerto Rican neighborhood, New York City.
07:31:26 High pan across East Harlem, kids run acros rooftops - Murrow on roof, tells kids to be careful. Titles. Looks down on 111th Street. Blacks wear bandanas, fight in street w/ batons. CU street sign Park Ave. / 111 St. Pan down past elevated railroad to street scene, young men play ball games. VO re gang fights repaced by drug problem & “poverty of opportunity”. Murrow along street, gives encouragement to young Black man re job opportuniy he has found for him.
07:34:32 Storekeeper tells Murrow he’s worried about dope addicts: “they’re not bad people, they’re really sick people”. Further shots Murrow at work on streets, advises men on coming off dope & finding work.
07:37:22 Murrow arrives home, greets wife & baby daughter; talking on phone. Night, people at window. Murrow chats w/ man who came off dope - reads Murrow poem he wrote “I’m Not Afraid of Tomorrow, I Have See Yesterday”; Murrow tells him “the Boss Upstairs” would be “tipping his hat right now”.
07:39:50 Street scene w/ kids playing. Group of Black men on street in social group / gang ‘The Miracles’.
NYC Ghettos; Drugs; Race; Poverty; Social Deprivation; Charity; Counselling; Civil Rights; Dialogue; Ethnic; 1960s; Gangs

X 221326 07:40:19 - 07:50:11 1963 SD B/W USA

Harlem Crusader Pt. 2 of 3
Meeting of The Miracles group addressed by ex-gang leader John Torres who helped Murrow clean up neighbourhood, gives pep talk & hands out rolled up newspapers for gang fight in back alley - lead pipes no longer used - accepted as way of young men letting off steam.
07:42:32 Murrow in apartment of Miracle gang members inc. Torres. Murrow talks to young boy who thinks his brother has stolen his camera to pay for drugs & talks w/ boy’s mother [Puerto Rican]. He recovers camera from pawn shop; takes boys play in water spray from fire hydrant.
07:45:20 Meeting of Miracles gang - planning send-off for Murrow who is leaving for college in Boston. Torres praises his dedication. Street scenes w/ heavy rain. Torres dictates farewell letter to John, girlfriend writing - cut to Murrow crossing road w/ disabled man Joey to interview for clerical job. Woman behind desk very friendly “you come very highly recommended” - Joey looks glum. Joey & Murrow talk on street outside.

X 221326 07:50:11 - 07:58:35 1963 SD B/W USA

Harlem Crusader Pt. 3 of 3
Miracles members on street shopping for going-away gifts for Murrow; barter w/ vendor for umbrella. Murrow & wife at leaving party, guests sing “For He’s A Jolly Good Fellow”. Murrow hugs Black & Puerto Rican young people he has helped. Gifts presented to Murrow, wife & baby - opens umbrella. Kids upset to see him go.
07:54:10 Elevated railroad & tilt down to street.
07:54:20 Murrow in apartment on last day in Harlem - possessions packed. Murrow on telephone “Boston’s going to be a territory of Puerto Rico” - wave goodbye to neighbours. Moving. Murrow on street - goes to say goodbye to old lady & various friends - breaks down in tears - final farewells & away in car. Street scenes kids playing.
07:58:29 The End credits.

221120 12:45:49 - 12:57:07 1964? SIL B/W USA

[Harlem, New York City - Part One]
Harlem street scenes, buildings and shopfronts.
Snowy day - Exterior tower blocks. Entrance of building. Advert posters for Afro-American hair product & Alaga syrup - Black baseball player on advert. Traffic and pedestrians past building. CU address painted on door: 485 Lenox Avenue and woman coming out of building. Views tower blocks and traffic nearby - sign “Lenox Terrace - Apartments Available”. Exterior Club Baron. Street with older buildings and sign for dentist under Carolina Baptist Church with stained glass window. Exterior grocery shop, barber shop, dry cleaners, Gold moon bar. photo studio with pictures displayed in window. Ext Bethel Gospel Pentecostal Association. Large Christian church or cathedral. Sign “Religious Training Institute of ??” offering bible studies classes.
Advert poster for Schaefer featuring Miss Beaux Arts Marva Revis. Mt. Olivet Church. Jewish building or shop. Funeral director’s shop under St. Mary’s Catholic Church. “Kingfisch” locksmith shop. Wendy’s meat market - butcher’s shop. Fish & chip shop. Hairdresser’s. Barber shop. Lenox Rendez-Vous cabaret. Tower block w/ sign “131 St. Nicholas Avenue, a development of NYC Housing Authority”; bulldozer and construction work. Street corner and traffic. Citadel of Hope refuge & temple with signs re Christ. Street corner, traffic lights and cars. Shopfront with sign “WLIB - 1190 on the dial”. Hotel Theresa. Count Basie’s jazz bar w/ signs for Kenny Burrell concert. Casper? record shop with jazz LPs in window: Ethel Ennis, Wanda Jackson, Idle Fours, Lou Rawls. Roy Campanella liquor store. Big Wilt’s Smalls Paradise shop. Renaissance cinema marquee showing Jerry Lewis’ “Who’s Minding”, The Last Days of Pompei and Gunfight At Comanche Creek western - people outside movie theatre. W.141 St. & 7th Avenue and tower blocks. Sign Hamilton Grange and statue Alexander Hamilton ; sign ‘Closed until further notice”.

221120 12:57:08 - 13:10:42 1964? SIL B/W USA

[Harlem, New York City - Part Two]
Harlem street scenes, buildings and shopfronts.
Sign “street closed school days play area”. School entrance with civil defense sign - kids come out of school and play in street - black and white children together. Firemen hosing burning building - blazing flames from balcony - people next door look out of window and crowd looks on from street - teenage boys laugh - black firemen get on fire engine. Sign ‘Alexander Hamilton Houses” by site under construction and tower blocks nearby. Sign for bargain meat. Luncheonette. Tracking shot past derelict shops. Manny’s billiards. Little Jim’s Fish & Chip shop. Hair salon. Laundry shop. Religious shop advertising perfume. Daniel’s Billiards. Rena’s French dry cleaners “stain specialist. Tower blocks. Black children. Amsterdam News newspaper headquarters and headlines. Venice Bar next to Amsterdam News office with sign in window barring unescorted women (re prostitution); “this is a Raided premises - Police Dept.”. Club Baby Grand. Frank’s Restaurant. Sunset movie theatre marquee showing films Shocking Paris Scandal, Blue Beard, Fury At Smuggler’s Bay & Gun The Man Down. Tracking shot past shopfronts, Square Deal Market. Apollo Theatre, marquee and posters advertising Gloria Lynne, Jimmy Smith concerts. Playland games arcade exterior and interior with rides, shooting gallery. Street with traffic. Bowling Harlem Lanes. Palm Cafe with loans company upstairs. Rudy Williams rock band advertised in window. Jazz musicians photos in window. Rhode Loans pawnshop. Club Lido. House of Hope drug addict rehab centre. Upper Park Avenue Baptist Church. Poster for Mississipi Relief Committee for homeless. High angle street and traffic. 125th Street subway station and train past. Handwritten sign “The Frost Gospelaires”. Upper Park Ave. Baptist Church & welcome sign re anti-crime and anti-narcotic action. Bridge of 125th Street subway station and street signs nearby. Grand Union Hotel with flashing sign. Ladies’ and children's clothes shop.

221120 13:10:43 - 13:22:34 1964? SIL B/W USA

[Harlem, New York City - Part Three]
Harlem street scenes, buildings and shopfronts - Night scenes from 13:13:56
Exterior brownstone buildings with entrance steps - some with smashed or boarded up windows. Dustbins in front of house and children past. Kids pose. LS area. Row of houses with entrance steps - hotel sign - New Hope community church - sign Fountain Spring Baptist Church; sign “Home cooked food”. Tower blocks. Children on swings in tower block play area. Bridge.
13:13:57 Night - Lido Club neon sign at night. Tracking shot down street with neon signs - Loew’s theatre showing Dean Martin Who’s Been Sleeping In My Bed, A Yank in Vietnam - Apollo Theatre showing Jimmy Smith and Gloria Lynne. Club Baby Grand sign and box office - advert for singers? Brenda & Barbara. West End movie theatre marquee showing Steve Reeve’s Revolt of the Slaves, Lonely Man & Fury of the Pagan;
Apollo theatre. Neon sign Sugar Ray’s club. Neon sign “Bar-B-Q Italian Heros” in luncheonette window. Ext Abraham Lincoln Recreation Centre and Athletic League - interior with black children playing some form of billiard on a backgammon-type board, table tennis; adults play cards; girls dance in circle.
13:16:51 Night & neon signs:
Count Basie’s jazz club. Big Wilt’s Smalls Paradise. Handwritten sign in window “Tonight - Moondog with Ace & The King”. Harlem Moon Bar. Barbecue. Chow Mein & other Chinese restaurant. Door of NAACP. Bermuda Bar. Silver Rail. Grocery shop. Mt. Olivet Church. Pool Room. Hollywood Cafe. Hotel. Bolivar Bar. Bargain prices and cheap meat in window of butcher shop. Liquor shop sign & ext. Eshad Ali Restaurant. Bombay Indian restaurant.
13:21:07 Night - tower block at night with lit-up windows. Street with traffic and neons. Tracking shot past lit-up shops incl. Blumenstein, Ripley, Fleetwood, furniture shop, Apollo Theatre.

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