Animation introduces five African American artists. Segment focuses on sculptures by Barbara Chase Riboud. Barbara drives a car on roads of Paris, France. Views of traffic in traffic circles, fountains, and landmark buildings of city of Paris in the early 1970s. Many cars and buses on road. Barbara comes out of a shop "Nickel Chrome" and talks to a man who has finished polishing one of her works of art. Barbara at a room takes out her coat. Various sculptures in the room. Barbara works on a sculpture and shapes it. Barbara stands near a furnace. Two men work with molten and hot iron. Barbara picks up her two children from a bilingual international school of Paris. Children sit in car. Barbara at her sculpture workshop. She walks in it. She examines sculptures.
Paintings of African American artist Charles White in Los Angeles, California. Paintings and certificates in a room. Children play. Charles White wearing goggles. Children climb a sloppy hill. Charles works on a painting. He drinks tea. He goes to a garden, holding a bag in hand. He walks to the Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County and teaches students there in a classroom. Students listen to him. A student talks about art.
Richard Hunt's sculptures in Chicago, Illinois. Richard outside with his daughter on a winter day in Chicago near lake shore. Chicago skyscrapers in the background through fog. He takes his daughter on back. He talks with his daughter in an arboretum or indoor greenhouse garden, examining the forms of plants and commenting on how they influence his art works. Richard with another artist examining one of Hunt's sculptures in progress. They talk to each other. Richard preparing a sculpture with a mold over it for kiln firing. He weighs stones in a large beam balance, puts stones on a small trolley and moves it. They make it hot and pour liquid into molding vessel. They knock away the mold and examine the sculpture to see if it was cast as he intended.
Video about famous African American collagist, artist Romare Bearden, in New York. View of 1970s car and truck traffic on Canal Street at lower east side intersection of Canal Street and Broadway in New York City. A man walking to the apartment of Romare Bearden. Sign on mailbox reads "Romare Bearden and Rohan, Top Floor". View of an African American painter and sculptor walking on city streets and then heading toward the Cinque Gallery of art at 20 West 72nd Street in New York City. Romare Bearden with people at the Cinque Gallery displaying the works of the artist. People look at the man's paintings and sculpture. Romare tells of his time as a young artist trying to get started in the Great Depression. Still images of unemployed men in a line. Views of other artists and writers Bearden would work with and share studio space including Jacob Lawrence and Claude McKay and Charles Alston. Group picture of the a group of African American artists and intellectuals of the time who knew each other. Bearden with his wife, the dancer Nanette Bearden, at his home studio. Mrs. Bearden brings him a drink and sits and watches Romare Bearden work on a collage. Close-up views of a collage that Bearden is working on, which focuses on themes of the African American experience.
Steel workers arriving for work as the new Carnegie-llinois steel company plant (subsidiary of U.S. Steel) opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Officials inspect the plant. First operations of rolling hot steel begin. Workers entering plant. View of hot steel being rolled out and cooled.
Harold L Ickes, Secretary of Interior; Head of the PWA (Public Works Administration) and Mayor, Edward J Kelly, break ground for a $40,000,000 subway system in Chicago, Illinois. Thousands of people attend the ceremony. Mayor addresses the people. People show banners. A banner reads "At last we'll have the subway".
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