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Pre-WWII - 1939, USA: Documentary - The City R4 of ?

Reel Number: 220652-12

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1939,1930s

Country: USA

Location: New York City,NYC,Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

TC Begins: 17:19:05

TC Ends: 17:25:28

Duration: 00:06:23

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Pre-WWII - USA Urban Poverty Children walking up wooden steps & sidewalks alongside wooden houses on hillside w/ smoke & smog. View from above; chimneys & smoke rising. MS kids playing on railings & posing. CUs. Couple down steps from elevated train tracks w/ train passing. 17:19:48 MCU Woman looking out of doorway. Children play on railroad tracks, run as train up & past. LS along muddy street w/ washing hanging across. Cobblestone street scenes. CU Little girl looking sadly out of window. Men walking home from work along hillside w/ steel mills in background. Chimney stacks of mills. Man w/ peg-leg collecting coal in bucket - walks away from camera, disabled. 17:20:42 Black man arriving home past chickens & into house. Woman throws pan of water from porch. Kids climb stairs to shack. CU faces. Woman hanging out washing, little boy goes to outdoor toilet. Man pumping water. Women getting water from pump. Worker washing in pan. 17:22:05 Woman cooking on coal stove. Smoke from chimney & train engine smokestack; dense smoke from many sources hanging over town. Steam trains. 17:22:40 New York / NYC skyscrapers - pan down building. People going to work - arty intercut shots - street scenes - crowds - subway. 17:23:23 Montage hands using typewriters - typing pool / office. 17:23:38 Pan down skyscrapers. Elevated subway past. Kids playing in the streets. Sign “Danger - Congested Area”. Alarm bell rings. Boys run to see - people looking out of windows. St. Vincent ambulance & MS driver smoking - man put in ambulance. 17:24:33 Montage shots kids playing on city streets, w/ wooden cart; riding back of garbage truck. Children playing w/ fires on rubbish pile in vacant lot. Kids riding back of bus - small girl playing with water in gutter. Going through garbage. Swimming in river, man chases kids away. 17:25:18 Crime on streets - taxi backs into another car, bumper falls off & it drives off. Youth throws brick through window Depression; 1930s; Daily Life; Accidents; Families; Pollution; Industrial City; Housing; NOTE: Partial or entire 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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