Opening scene shows marquee of Art Theater, at 1077 Southern Boulevard, where Spanish language films are showing. Glimpse of sign in beauty parlor window reading: "Hair straightened" (in English and Spanish). Sign for "Gilroy & McLoughlin" Bar& Grill, Cabaret. A musical record shop. Womens gowns, including a bridal gown, in a shop window. Photo portrait of President John Kennedy and wife, Jackie, in a shop window. Paper posters in window, referring to religious Mystical Crown, and showing illustration of Christ wearing crown of thorns. A shop called "CuchiFritos y Pasteles." Picture of saxaphonist, Don Santia, in a club window. Women's clothing hanging outside a shop, with sale prices boldly displayed on the items. Pictures advertising entertainers, including two women and a male guitar player. Items in a toy store window that also shows a religious picture. Items in a hat shop window, including a straw hat labeled "Puerto Rico." Flashing neon sign in window reading:"Casa Legre."Shop full of religious wares. The "Progresso Barber Shop."A drug store advertising Louis Levine, Doctor of Pharmacy. Two boys walking past a shop displaying sunglasses, spinners on sticks and other gadgets. People gathered at a very busy produce market. A man weighing bananas. A woman paying for her purchase. Two men very busy tending customers. Man loading bananas into a paper sack. A little girl dressed all in white with a veil and carrying a flower follows her mother past the market. ('Possibly going for her first Communion.) Woman examining melons. A man dispensing soft drink sodas, and snow cones or shaved ice drinks from a stand on the sidewalk. A couple looking at used furniture. A mother placing a diaper over her husbands shoulder so he can burp their baby. A lone boy on bicycle passing a couple walking along the sidewalk.
Night life in the South Bronx. A boy flies a kite from the roof. Cars on the street, clothes line across buildings. African American people in the streets. Night clubs, bars and neon signs. Displays in shop windows. Garcia Lorca brings a mobile theater to a school yard. A large crowd turns up for the event. The performance underway. Children and adults in the audience applaud and cheer. Men play Domino. Neon signs, shops in the street. A woman and a man sing on a stage. Bridal stores in the area.
'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.
War correspondents gathered in England, awaiting D-Day and preparing to enter France after the upcoming D-Day invasion in World War 2. War correspondents and soldiers at a camp on the South Coast of England. Jeeps, tents and men near baggage. Various correspondents meet up with each other. A correspondent walks amidst rows of tents with an officer. An officer gives a correspondent a shovel to defend himself. Correspondent Larry LeSueur smokes a cigarette. Various correspondents including Jack Thompson of the Chicago Tribune, Scripps-Howard Newspapers' Ernie Pyle, Associated Press' Larry O'Riley and Wharton Becker. They bid farewell to each other. A correspondent wearing a leather jacket with "War Correpondent" labeled epaulets on the shoulders. Clark Lee of INS and Chicago Daily News' William Stoneman next to a trailer attached to a military jeep. The war correspondents climb into a military truck. The truck passes through small British towns. People shop for vegetables in a crowded market place or a British town. Destroyed buildings in the town of Plymouth seen as the correspondents exit the rear of the Army vehicles.
War correspondents covering World War 2, prepare for the D-Day Invasion. U.S. soldiers in military jeeps, ready to be boarded onto Landing Crafts, approach the dock area in South England. Soldiers on the road. Bars on the jeep bumpers designed to cut wires put up across the roads by Germans. A war correspondent sits with baggage on the road. A dog nearby. An American and a British soldier man a Control Post. They check a correspondent's baggage and bedding. Wes Hanes seated on the baggage. Pete Carroll of Boston, photographer for the Associated Press, smokes a cigarette. Behind him is a sign for the Salmon Leap Public House. They eat K-rations. Hanes on the riverside with a small castle in the background seen through the arch under the bridge. Pete Carroll stepping on stones near the river bank after washing his hands in the river.
War correspondents board crafts on the South England coast shortly before D-Day Invasion in World War II. The correspondents film United States 101st Airborne Division troops marching towards Landing Crafts at the docks. They carry grenades and bazookas. Soldiers board Landing Crafts. The heavy crafts have to be pushed off the docks by military trucks. The troops are taken to larger crafts and ships further into the water. Soldiers pose for the camera. A fleet of ships and Landing Crafts Infantry (LCI) in the water. The correspondents with Commander of the invasion group Lt. Patton and the Captain of the ship, LCI number 5. A correspondent shows his camera to an officer. War correspondent Wes Hanes trims his beard.
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