Australian tennis player Frank Arthur Sedgman makes his pro debut against American John Albert Kramer also known as Jack Kramer. Sedgman and Kramer walk onto the tennis court. Spectators applaud. The match begins. The match underway. Spectators watch the match. Kramer defeats Sedgman 6-1, 6-2. The two players shake hands at the net.
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.
Uptown - A Portrait of the South Bronx. A boy flies a kite from a roof. Buildings in the area. A train approaches a station. People wait at the station. A busy market in the Bronx. Shops, displays and sign boards. Men and women on the streets and shopping in city stores and markets. A policeman in the crowd. Migrants from various countries in the commercial area with shops and stores. People read the newspaper. Many sells a newspaper with headline, "America Falling." Elderly citizens on the streets. A young African American man works as a shoe shine. The Hub area, intersection of Melrose, East 149th Street and Third Avenue. Third Avenue El before it's removal in 1973.
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.
Sunday in the South Bronx. A "2" or "5" train exits the subway at the Hub towards the Westchester avenue El (elevated train) at Brook Avenue. A sign for Family Finance Loans. POV from elevated train in the Bronx. Puerto Rican immigrants gathered at churches for Sunday service. People head to the St. Mary's Park for a weekly game of baseball. At TC: 2:47 McMahon's Bar and Grill at Jackson Ave and St. Mary's St. is seen. Families in the park. Children eat from stalls. Men sing a hymn and play tambourines. Children bathe in the water spray from a fire hydrant. Churches and other holy places in the area. Poster displays the "all seeing eye" of a local mystic. Church signs include, "Iglesia Pentecostal Estrella de Oriente" and "Bethany Christian Mission," with a warning to "prepare to meet your god." Man paints a sign for another church. Musicians play on the street. The bleachers are full with fathers and mothers with their children in strollers. Players prepare for the game. The baseball game underway. Audience claps and cheers. A plane flies overhead.
X-Ray Department at the Lenox Hill Hospital in NY. An X-Ray Requisition for a Mrs. E Conrad. Signs read: 'Office - X-Ray Departmernt', 'Radiographic C', and 'Control'. Patient lies on X-Ray table. Nurse adjusts X-Ray machine and prepares the patient for an X-Ray. Nurse at X-Ray controls. Sign reads 'X-Ray Conference Room'. Dr. Otto Pickhardt and other assistant doctors discuss the patient's x-rays. X-rays clipped on the view box.
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