- Title: F-A4185
- Summary: THE STRANGER AT OUR DOOR:
- Description:00:01:47 - OPENING SHOT, WS OF 1950'S HOTEL-STYLE BUILDING AND STREET. LARGE PALM TREE ON STREET IN FRONT OF HOUSE, OLD CARS PARKED ON STREET IN FRONT OF BUILDINGS 00:01:52 - TEENAGERS LOITER ON STEPS OF BUILDING HARRASSING STRANGERS AS THEY WALK BY. TYPICAL 50' S TEENAGER'S, BORED KIDS, TROUBLE-MAKERS. KIDS TALK ABOUT SHOOTING POOL. TEENS WEAR PLAID SHIRTS, SLICKED BACK GREASED HAIR 00:02:12 - SINGLE MAN SITS ON STEP READING NEWS PAPER, LOOKS UP FROM PAPER AND THEN LOOKS DOWN AGAIN 00:02:19 - TEENS SIT ON STEP TALKING ABOUT "FOREIGNERS". TEENS APPROACH STRANGER IN STREET THEY PERCEIVE AS A "REFUGEE" TO ASK HIM WHERE HE'S FROM. RACISM, SEGREGATION, TEEN BULLIES. MAN APPROACHES TEENS TO HELP STRANGER BEING PICKED ON...GOOD SAMARITAN. DISPERSES TEENS AS THE STRANGER CARRIES ON HIS WAY. 00:02:57 - MAN/BOY WALKS UP THE FRONT STEP OF HIS HOUSE WITH PAPER BAG OF GROCERIES IN HAND AND OPENS FRONT DOOR. STOOP LOOKS RUN DOWN, PAINT FADING FROM BRICKS ON WALL, WOODEN DOOR LOOKS WEATHERED. 00:03:03 - MAN/BOY ENTERS HOME, CLOSES DOOR WITH FOOT BEHIND HIM. INTERIOR OF HOME TYPICAL 1950'S....CHECKERBOARD TABLE CLOTH IN KITCHEN, WING-BACK CHAIRS IN LIVING ROOM, CURTAINS HANG FROM DOORWAYS. "MAMA" GREETS BOY "JOSEF" IN DOORWAY, MOTHER HAS EUROPEAN ACCENT. BOY TUCKS SWEATER INTO PANTS WITH BELT TIGHTENED. MOTHER/SON DISCUSS RACISM, HARDSHIPS OF BEING IN A NEW LAND...WHY THEY LEFT THEIR "HOMELAND" FOR FREEDOM IN AMERICA. 1950'S "GOOD BOY" TOO NICE, LEAVE IT TO BEAVER-LIKE. BOY LOOKS 20 BUT ACTS LIKE HE'S 10. 00:04:44 - MOTHER INSISTS BOY DOES HOMEWORK/STUDIES/SCHOOL LESSONS. BOY SITS AT TABLE AND OPENS SCHOOL BOOKS. CUT TO CU OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE JULY 4TH 1776. BOY TURNS PAGE OF BOOK TO READ THE NAMES OF THE SIGNEES OF THE DECLARATION. 00:05:19 - DOOR OPENS TO HOME, FATHER/PAPA IS GREETED BY BOY. FATHER TUSSLES THE BOYS HAIR. LOVING TOUCH, CARING FATHER. 00:05:26 - HUSBAND AND WIFE GREET EACH OTHER AFTER DAY OF WORK, MAN KISSES WOMAN. COUPLE SIT ON COUCH AND DISCUSS THEIR DAY / HOLD HANDS. PLANT HANGER IN BG, PATTERNED 1950'S STYLE WALLPAPER IN BG. FATHER TALKS ABOUT LOOKING FOR WORK. MAN'S FEDORA PLACED ON TABLE IN FRONT OF COUCH. 00:05:50 - FATHER GIVES SPEECH TO BOY ABOUT FREEDOM IN AMERICA. TALKS ABOUT A COUNTRY BUILT BY PEOPLE FROM OTHER LANDS. PASSIONATE SPEECH ABOUT FREEDOM. TALKS ABOUT GOD WATCHING OVER FAMILY. 00:07:06 - BOY GETS EXCITED ABOUT MOTHER SERVING DINNER, HOLLERS OUT "HOT DIGGITY"...50'S SLANG WORD, FATHER CLAIMS BOY HAS BEEN "AMERICANIZED" 00:07:28 - WS OF SMALL TOWN CENTRE, BUILDING LOOKS WEATHERED AND RUN DOWN. SUNNY DAY. TROUBLED TEENS / BULLIES WALK OUT FROM BEHIND BUILDING. APPROACH EUROPEAN / FOREIGN BOY WALKING ON STREET AND BEAT HIM UP. MCU THREE BOYS ON TOP OF KID PUNCHING HIM / BEATING HIM UP. SENSELESS VIOLENCE. KID ATTACKED. 00:07:51 - MAN COMES TO THE RESUE OF BOY GETTING BEAT UP / ABUSED. MAN RUNS UP TO TEENS BEATING BOY AND PULLS THEM OFF OF HIM, MAN PUNCHES ONE OF THE TEENS ASSAULTING THE BOY. GOOD SAMARITAN. ACT OF KINDNESS / FAIRNESS/JUSTICE 00:07:58 - MAN HELPS BOY UP OFF OF SIDEWALK. TWO SHOT OF MEN DISCUSSING FAIRNESS AND EQUALITY. MAN TALKS ABOUT LESSONS HE HAS LEARNED ABOUT EQUALITY. LIFE LESSONS. LIFE STORY. MEN FRAMED CLOSE TOGETHER, LOOKS LIKE THEY ARE GOING TO KISS. 00:08:52 - BOY KNEELS ON SIDEWALK AND PICKS UP SPILLED GROCERIES. 00:09:09 - FAMILY SITS AROUND TABLE EARLY EVENING. FATHER READS PAPER, MOTHER KNITS. 00:10:27 - WS OF TWO BOYS STANDING IN FRONT OF CHURCH. ONE BOY INITIATES DISCUSSION ABOUT WORSHIP/GOD. BOYS WALK DOWN SIDEWALK DISCUSSING FAITH. 00:11:06 - YELLING COMES FROM DOORWAY. MIDDLE AGED MAN GRABS TWO BOYS BY THEIR COLLARS AND CALLS FOR POLICE. ALTERCATION OCCURS, DISPUTE WITH YOUNG VANDALS, TROUBLE-MAKERS. MAN ANGRY, PROTECTING PROPERTY. YELLING IN FRENCH. BOY ACTS AS PEACEMAKER TO SETTLE DISPUTE. 00:12:52 - MCU 1950'S BLACK CAR PARKED IN STREET. 2 BOYS GET INTO CAR AND DRIVE OUT OF FRAME. BOY REFRENCES LICENCE PLATE ON VEHICLE AGAINST PIECE OF PAPER IN POCKET. 00:13:26 - WS INTERSECTION IN TOWN, CARS TURNS CORNER AND COMES TOWARD CAMERA. CAR PULLS UP TO GARAGE DOOR AND HONKS HORN TWICE. 00:13:32 - POLICE OFFICERS INTERIOR GARAGE, SCRIBBLING ON NOTEPADS, CHECKING LICENCE PLATES ON VEHICLES. OFFICERS RUSH TO OPEN GARAGE DOOR WHEN THEY HEAR A CAR HORN OUTSIDE THE DOOR. STING OPERATION, STEALING, CAR THIEF GETS BUSTED, HOT CAR, STOLEN VEHICLE. 00:14:22 - DETECTIVE, UNIFORMED POLICE OFFICER INTERROGATE BOY ABOUT STOLEN CAR. QUESTION HIM ABOUT GANG OF THIEFS. POLICE ARREST BOYS, BRING THEM INTO STATION FOR QUESTIONING. 00:14:58 - IRATE PARENTS SIT IN WAITING ROOM OF POLICE STATION. 00:15:00 - BOYS STAND IN FRONT OF LAWYERS AND JUDGE IN JUDGE CHAMBERS AND DISCUSS PLEA BARGAINING. AUTHORITIES DISCUSS CHARGING BOYS WITH GRAND THEFT AUTO. BOY READS A CHAPTER FROM THE BIBLE IN HOPES OF GAINING LENEIENCY IN THE COURTS. BOY GAZES STUPIDLY AT JUDGE, BATTING EYELASHES. 00:19:32 - TYPICAL 1950'S TEEN ENTERS ROOM TO SPEAK WITH JUDGE. BOY HAS SLICKED BACK HAIR, BAD CROOKED TEETH, FRECKLES, LOOKS LIKE A PUPPET, FUNNY LOOKING, ODD FACE CHARACTER, LOOKS DEVELISH. 00:20:34 - FAMILY AND FRIENDS WALK INTO HALLWAY OF COURTS. BOY EXCITED THAT JUDGE SHOOK HIS HAND. GROUP TALKS ABOUT GOING TO CHURCH. GROUP SMILING, LAUGHING, HANDS ON SHOULDERS, FAITH IN GOD, RELIGOUS IDEALISM. TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE. 00:21:07 - END OF PROGRAM DEDICATION TYPE AT END OF PROGRAM.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1949
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: F-A4185