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.
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.
A big building in Harlem, New York City. Rain and snow are falling. Bethel Gospel Pentecostal Assembly (2 E 120th St, New York, NY 10035) at Harlem, New York City. The New York Ephesus Seventh-day Adventist Church (101 W 123rd St, New York, NY 10027, United States). The Ebenezer Gospel Tabernacle Baptist Church (227 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10027, United States). The Religious Training Institute of America's board informs about the courses and timings at institute and information to contact Reverend P.G. Neil. A Schaefer beer billboard advertisement shows woman named Marva Revis, the Miss Beaux Arts winner of 1963, holding two 6-packs of beer and reads "... When you're having more than one". Views of Mount Olivet Church (201 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10027). Moore's Temple. Saint Mary's Catholic Church. A Jewish synagogue entrance is also seen, with Hebrew words at the entrance door.
An African American artist teaches a class. Mrs William E Harmon and others at the Spanish African American art exhibition along with Pastor Argudin y Pedroso. Malvin Gray Johnson lights his pipe and begins painting. Sculptor William Ellisworth Artis teaches a student who is creating a dolphin-inspired piece. Photographer James Latimer Allen takes photographs using a large format camera on tripod. Painter Richard William Lindsey watches students painting in a class.
Americans, Billy Casper and Art Wall, tee off on the 18th hole at Canadian Open Golf Tournament in Montreal. Casper's approach shot falls within 8 feet of the pin. He one-putts for a birdie. Wall two-putts and they end the hole even. The next day, Casper wins the playoff by four strokes, shooting a 65. He stands with his young son on the green.
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