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Harlem Crusader Pt 1 of 3

Reel Number: 221326-04

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1963

Country: USA

Location: Harlem,New York City,NYC

TC Begins: 07:31:18

TC Ends: 07:40:19

Duration: 00:09:01

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Title. Pt. 1 of 3 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 across 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 replaced by drug problem & “poverty of opportunity”. Murrow along street, gives encouragement to young Black man re job opportunity 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 NOTE: Any one continuous minute sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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