- Title: V-1366
- Summary: LIVING CITY: PROVIDES A COMPARATIVE BASE FOR ANALYSIS AT URBAN PROBLEMS IN THE EARLY 1950S BY SHOWING HOW URBAN DECAY AFFECTS THE LIVES OF SLUM INHABITANTS, BUSINESSMEN, LANDLORDS AND BUILDERS IN SEVERAL U.S. CITIES. TRACES URBAN PROBLEMS TO GROWTH PATTERNS, DEMOGRAPHIC CONCENTRATIONS, AND UNEQUAL TAX BASES. DISCUSSES THE NEED FOR IMPROVED URBAN-SUBURBAN RELATIONS AND SUGGESTS THAT HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION AND SLUM RENEWAL PROJECTS ARE AMONG THE ALTERNATIVES FOR URBAN IMPROVEMENT. POVERTY. GOOD TENEMENT SHOTS. INTEGRATED KIDS PLAYING. AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDREN PLAYING. PHILADELPHIA. COULD PASS AS "EVERY" TOWN
- Description:03:45:41 - RIDING DOWN POV ON CONSTRUCTION ELEVATOR. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS BUILDING. 03:46:19 - URBAN DECAY. SLUMS, RUINS. BUILDING CRUMBLING, FALLING APART. 03:46:30 - BLACK GIRL LOOKS OUT AT CRANE CARRYING RUBBLE TO HUGE PILE. MINORITIES. 03:46:54 - STEAM ENGINE PUFFS SMOKE, 1930s CARS IN PARKING LOT. POLLUTION THROUGH CITY. 03:47:13 - COUNTRY SCENE. TURNING WATER MILL. DRAFT ANIMALS PLOW THROUGH GROUND. BLACKSMITH. HORSE SHOE 03:47:25 - STEAM POWER. FACTORY, PLANT 03:47:30 - STILLS, THE GROWTH OF THE AMERICAN CITY, A HISTORY. HISTORICAL RECREATION. 03:48:45 - SKYSCRAPERS. SURVEYOR. WAVES ARMS. PEOPLE WATCH URBAN CONSTRUCTION SITE. 03:49:04 - CU BUSINESSMAN LOOKS AT WATCH. 03:49:09 - BUSINESSMAN AT HIS NICE SUBURBAN HOME. GOING TO WORK. KIDS RUNS OUT RUN OUT OF HOUSE, GET ON THEIR BICYCLES. BOYS RIDE BIKES TO SCHOOL 03:49:30 - BUSINESSMAN COMMUTES IN HIS CAR. TRAFFIC JAM. 03:49:56 - CU FOOT SLAMS ON THE CAR BRAKES 03:49:58 - URBAN LIFE, IN TRAFFIC, PEDESTRIANS. CU TRAFFIC COP BLOWS WHISTLE AND PUTS UP HIS HAND. BUSTLING CITY AT RUSH HOUR. EL TRAIN ELEVATED SUBWAY 03:50:14 - COMMUTER FINALLY GETS TO WORK, LOOKS AT WATCH, RUBS HIS HEAD STRESSFUL LIFESTYLE. LIFE IN THE BIG CITY 03:50:20 - AUTOMATIC MACHINES WORKING. PRODUCTION. MAKING BOXES. 03:50:43 - HEAD OF A BOX FACTORY, BUSINESSMAN UNHAPPY IN HIS OFFICE. HEAD-IN-HAND. STRESSFUL LIFE. IN MEETING. SHIPPING PROBLEMS. HECTIC. ANGRY. BANGS FIST ON TABLE. 03:51:22 - URBAN CONSTRUCTION SITE. HUGE CRANE. PEOPLE WATCH CONSTRUCTION. 03:51:36 - SIGN AROUND A TREE "FURNISHED APARTMENT FOR RENT". PAN TO HOUSE, BOYS RUN OUT OF THE HOUSE, MOTHER RUNS OUT WITH LUNCH THAT HE FORGOT. 03:51:55 - CU WORLD GLOBE. OVER-CROWDED CLASSROOM. 03:52:03 - ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KIDS IN THE PLAYGROUND. BOYS FIGHT. BOYS ROOT. GOING DOWN SLIDE. 03:52:18 - 1950s URBAN HOUSEWIFE SHAKES DUST FROM MOP. 03:52:27 - GARBAGE TRUCK. GARBAGE REMOVAL. CU GARBAGE CAN EMPTIED INTO TRUCK 03:52:39 - OUTDOOR FRUIT MARKET. 03:52:44 - URBAN BOYS THROWING AROUND BALL. BREAK STOREFRONT WINDOW. BOYS RUN AWAY. WOMAN YELLS. 03:53:02 - POV OF SOMEONE HOLDING A GUN AND WATCHING MOM COME HOME FROM MARKET TRIP. BOY SAYS "BANG, BANG I GOTCHA" BOY FALLS ON THE GROUND PRETENDS TO BE DEAD. 03:53:20 - BAD BOY. POLICEMAN SHOWS UP BRINGING SON HOME. TROUBLEMAKER. 03:53:47 - BLACK GIRLS PLAY PRETEND IN THE SLUMS. DRESS-UP. LOOK AT SELF IN BROKEN MIRROR. 03:54:44 - SLUMS, TENEMENTS, RUN DOWN NEIGHBORHOODS THROUGH BROKEN GLASS. URBAN BLIGHT 03:54:59 - CITY PLANNING COMMISSION. MAN AT DRAFTING TABLE TALKS TO CAMERA. 03:55:29 - OLD MEETS NEW. HORSE-PULLED WAGON AND CARS. IN SLUMS. 03:55:52 - PRIVATE BUILDER AT SITE. 03:56:06 - HOME OWNER TALKS TO CAMERA "WHY PICK ON ME? I'M NOT AN ABSENTEE OWNER LIKE A LOT OF SLUM PROPERTY OWNERS" 03:56:19 - LAWYER IN HIS OFFICE TALKS ABOUT ABSENTEE OWNERS. 03:56:48 - CIGAR SMOKING CITY PLANNER, CITY PLANNING MEETING 03:57:01 - SLUM TENANTS SPEAK THEIR MINDS FROM THEIR PORCHES. SOUND BYTE "I'VE GOT NO INTENTION OF MOVING". OLD LADIES ON STOOP SAY THAT THEY DON'T WANT TO MOVE. INDUSTRIAL BLIGHT 03:58:13 - URBANSCAPE. HEAVY TRAFFIC, RUSH HOUR. BUSES, TRUCKS. 03:58:38 - URBAN PLANNER, DRAFT TABLE TALKS TO CAMERA, LOOKS AT PLANNING MAPS 03:59:51 - NEIGHBORHOOD IN BALTIMORE, MARYLAND. COBBLED STREETS IN DISREPAIR. WET STREETS, BLACK GIRL BLOWS BUBBLE GUM. STICKS HEAD OUT OF WINDOW. 04:00:19 - POOR WOMAN LIGHTS KEROSENE LAMP IN HER SLUM APARTMENT 04:00:26 - CU HAND GRABS CITY MAPS, PLANNING MEETING HOUSING CODE. 04:00:38 - HOUSING INSPECTOR IN SLUM, TENEMENT BUILDING INSPECTORS TALK TO TENANTS. HOUSING PROGRAM. FIRE ESCAPE. 04:01:11 - CU BANGING GAVEL. HOUSING COURT. BLACKS & WHITES INTEGRATED. MAN NERVOUS, SWEATY, DABS HIS HEAD. 04:02:17 - URBAN RENEWAL. NEW APARTMENTS. KIDS RUN TO GO ON SWINGS. 04:02:35 - URBAN INDUSTRIAL NEIGHBORHOOD, FACTORY BILLOWS SMOKE, SMOG. FOGGY STEEL TOWN. PITTSBURGH. RAILROAD YARDS. 04:03:22 - THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE. DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH . 04:03:37 - URBAN HOUSEWIVES HANGING LAUNDRY IN ALLEY. WOMAN RUNS UP, TALK, OTHER HOUSEWIVES COME OUT OF THEIR HOUSES TO LISTEN. GOSSIP. RUMOR. SOUTH PHILLY 04:03:55 - PHILADELPHIA. COUNCIL MEETING. 04:04:03 - BOY'S SHADOW ON SIDEWALK. URBAN KIDS PLAY IN ALLEY 04:04:13 - BOY TRIES TO CROSS BUSY STREET, DODGES A CAR, ALMOST GETS HIT CROSSING STREET 04:04:21 - BUSY STREET MERCHANTS. URBAN SHOPPING DISTRICT 04:04:26 - TILT DOWN CHURCH. 04:04:38 - URBAN DECAY, CRUMBLING BUILDINGS, CU TRUCK TIRES SPIN. BULLDOZER. BUILDINGS TORN DOWN. WRECKING BALL. BUILDING CRUMBLES. DE-CONSTRUCTION. 04:05:50 - CRANE LIFTS BUILDING MATERIALS. URBAN RENEWAL. PUBLIC HOUSING PROJECT CEMENT POURED OUT. STEAM SHOVEL. URBAN RENEWAL. CRANE OPERATOR. 04:06:50 - MODEL OF CITY OF CHICAGO. 04:07:03 - FREEWAYS. POV DRIVING A CAR. 1950s CARS. LOS ANGELES. GOING UNDER OVERPASS. COMPLICATED ROADWAYS. PULLING INTO PARKING LOT. 04:08:06 - CU TURN OFF IGNITION KEY. 04:08:09 - LS NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE. 04:08:21 - CONSTRUCTION SITE. CRANE. BILLBOARD ADVERTISING NEW APARTMENT BUILDINGS. PAN TO BUILDINGS UNDER CONSTRUCTION 04:08:34 - DE-CONSTRUCTION, WRECKING CREW, PULLING DOWN CRUMBLING BUILDING WALLS. 04:08:43 - CITY PLANNING COMMISSION DOOR OPENS INWARD, SCALE MODEL OF A CITY 04:08:54 - BUSY CITY. MANY PEOPLE ON SIDEWALKS. 04:09:00 - LITTLE BOYS PLAY BASEBALL IN SLUM ALLEY 04:09:05 - INDUSTRIAL AREA, SMOKE STACKS BELCH POLLUTION INTO THE AIR. THICK HEAVY SMOG 04:09:09 - URBAN GIRLS DOUBLE DUTCH JUMP ROPE. TENEMENT LIFESTYLE 04:09:14 - POLLUTION HEAVY THICK INDUSTRIAL SMOG 04:09:18 - HIGH ANGLE, AERIAL OF CITY 04:09:25 - TRAFFIC OUT OF CITY, SUBURBAN COMMUTERS 04:09:42 - CONSTRUCTION SITE, POV GOING UP CONSTRUCTION ELEVATOR
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1953
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: V-1366