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Damaged buildings and poor people in Harlem, and a community convention is held in New York to fight poverty.

A promotional documentary titled ' Change is Gonna come' about fight against poverty in East Harlem, New York City. The skyline of New York City. A damaged building with broken glasses of the windows. Three boys playing near a building. One boy jumps down from an awning roof to the ground. View of buildings from moving car and gradually the view shows more damaged and older buildings. African American children play around debris of a damaged building. The boys throw rocks at a partially demolished building wall. A young African American girl walks over the rubble with some difficulty. View of the boys throwing more rocks, and then hitting the wall of the mostly demolished bulding and knocking more bricks from it. Two boys play "sword fighting" with sticks. A sign reads ' under construction'. African American youth (older boys and girls) work at a construction site as they cut wooden planks to help build a playground for youth. A young African American boy plays and sits on a toy fire truck. African American and Hispanic children (possibly Puerto Rican) play in and around an abandoned, wrecked car in a street. The group of children stand and jump on the roof of the car and hit the car with their sticks. View of a totally smashed and abandoned car on the side of a street. The toy truck lying on a street and missing a front wheel. Next scene shows and auditorium holding a community convention to fight poverty in New York. Sign says "New York City Council Against Poverty. Lower West Side." A woman at a podium addresses audiences at the convention. Men and women seated around a table as they work on documents.

Date: 1965
Duration: 4 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059229
Various organizations plan programs like cultural exchanges to fight against poverty in East Harlem, New York.

A promotional documentary about fight against poverty in East Harlem, New York City. African American scouts with American boy scouts as a result of mobilization. African American boy scouts do push ups. A boy gets into a sleeping bag. Boys exercise and practice fencing as they fight with swords. Activity of City Mission Society Cadet Corps. African America boys play musical instruments, including percussion steel pans, drums, and bongos, during a practice. An African American woman performs a native dance at an afro arts culture center to bring artists and audiences together. Men beat drums as the woman performs.

Date: 1965
Duration: 2 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059230
People walking on snow covered streets during the spring season in New York City, United States.

The spring season in New York City, United States. A snow covered area. People walking on the snow covered streets. Buildings along the sides of the street. A sign reads: 'Spring Sale'. Handbags being displayed in a shop window. Other things also on display. People watching the displayed products.

Date: 1965, March 22
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063253
Vital statistics for the disadvantaged migrant community in the Bronx, NY.

Documentary portrays life in a disadvantaged community in the Bronx, NY. Statistics for: population, average age, education, migrants, rate of employment, aid to dependent children, youth population, homicide rate, suicide rate and psychiatric hospitalization. Comparative figures of the Bronx, Central Harlem and NYC.

Date: 1965
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020818
Ordinary life in a Bronx, New York City, neighborhood in the 1960s

Film opens showing a commercial DC-9 in flight, overhead, approaching for landing at LaGuardia Airport, with landing gear and flaps extended. Scene shifts to hazy view of buildings silhouetted against lighter sky. View of rooftops with a boy walking across one. Buildings with pigeons on the roof. A woman dries clothes on a roof. A boy flies a kite from a roof. Cars parked on the street below. Pigeons flying. Youths playing basketball. 1:08 to end footage taken from atop 700 East 156th Street. 1:08 follows a train northwest along the Westchester Avenue line. 1:18, a view East of the newly elevated Bruckner Expwy and Whitestone and Throggs Neck bridges in distance. 1:21,a view to the Northwest, 3203-3211 Park Avenue is the curved building in the foreground, George Washington Bridge seen in the distance. 1:25, view west down 156th Street. 1:29 Train runs along Westchester Avenue to 156 and Tinton. 1:34 panning from south to west, Consolidated Edixon plant in Port Morris can be seen in distance. Rikers Island can also be seen in the East River. ( Note: A very large number of the buildings shown burned down in the next 10-20 years.)

Date: 1965
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020819
Point of view scenes of dense urban housing in the Bronx of New York City, as seen from a moving train.

View of housing in the Bronx from a train. View through the train of a 2 or 5 train window heading northeast along Westchester Avenue. The Prospect Ave station is passed. A man in the train. Buildings in the area. A family seated on the fire escape of a building. A little girl on a balcony. Cars and trucks on the street. People in the window of a room. Men playing baseball in the street.

Date: 1965
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020820