A documentary about Project Breakthrough, by the office of Economic Opportunity Community Action Program to teach preschool children language skills in Cook County, Illinois. Views on city streets of Chicago where residents live in poverty. African American people gathered in small groups. African American children on sidewalks and in small groups. AFrican American men talking together in front of store fronts. Litter and garbage on the street. Poor people, mainly African Americans, on the streets. An African American girl crosses the street. A woman carrying a child walks along the sidewalk. Close-up view of legs and shoes of people walking atop litter on the street. Director of Cook County Department of Public Aid William H Robinson seated at a desk.
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.)
'Uptown': a film made by the Lincoln Hospital Mental Health Services, Yeshiva University. The film depicts life in the South Bronx. African American men on the street. A man looks out from a window. Families on the fire escapes of densely packed urban buildings and tenements. Graffiti on the road. Buildings seen and a boy flies a kite from a roof. Dark clouds in the sky. A woman climbs up the stairs in a building. A couple in the street. Cars pass by. Clothes lines. Strong winds and thunder as the storm approaches.
Night view of Los Angeles. Neon signs for peep shows and dancing girls seen on buildings. Men stand in front of a sports wear shop and look at clothing in store windows. Cars move on streets. View of the "State Theater" movie theater with advertisement for film "Bonnie and Clyde" on the marquee. Aerial view of the city at night.
Pedestrians walking in front of a supermarket in New York. Bottles of beverages are seen from store windows. A blond woman and other shoppers inside a supermarket. Packaged and prepared grocery items such as Old London Melba toast, Campbell’s Soup, Knorr Beef Noodle Soup in the aisles of the supermarket. Woman takes cans of Campbell’s Soup from shelves. She also picks up a pack of paper napkins, kitchen sponges, Woolite, and dishwashing soap and puts them in her shopping cart. Shopper picks up a tray of Sara Lee Apricot Danish pie from the frozen food section. Various products at the frozen food freezer in the grocery store.
A pro Betancourt rally in Venezuela. Crowds gathered with signage against Fidel Castro and in support of Romulo Betancourt. Betancourt addresses the crowds from a podium on a stage, outdoors. A man sitting looking at a radio tower. Images of radio control equipment and sign wave signatures on a scope. Scenes of protest and rioting in a Latin American or South American city. Police combating demonstrators. Vehicles overturned. Citizens running through the streets. Crowds being sprayed by fire hoses from moving fire trucks. Close up views of a newspaper "La Prensa" indicating Fidel Castro's support of the Communist party in Peru. Headline, "Fidel Castro Financia al partido comunista Peruano." An inside headline from the same paper reads, "La Embajada de Cuba Distribuye Propaganda Subversica en el Peru" indicating that an Ambassador from Cuba distributed anti-government, subversive propaganda en Peru. What follows are a series of images drawing parallels between Castro and other fascist historical leaders. Castro speaking forcefully, then a cut to historical excerpts from speeches by Hitler and Goebels in Germany during World War II. A scene with Hitler speaking and gesticulating wildly and forcefully, followed by a scene with Castro doing the same. A wooden sign with skull and crossbones and the words "HALT! STOJ!" on it. Prisoners in a German Nazi concentration camp, thin, weary, and huddled near a barb wire perimeter fence circa early 1945. Nikita Khrushchev on a review stand waving his hat to Soviet Army forces marching below him carrying guns with bayonets fixed. Chinese citizen-military forces (possibly early Red Guard) at a rally, with young women and young men raising rifles in the air . Soviet Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev shaking hands with Chinese leader Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Communist Party of China. A group of Chinese workers digging ditches, including men and women Chinese workers. Still image of Khrushchev and Castro embracing. An anti-communist rally in Cuba.
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