Synopsis
St. Louis, Missouri: Catholic mission in the slums. 1950s interracial group (African American and White children) of boys various ages from adolescent to early teen, playing baseball in unkempt field. Group of mostly Black and White girls adolescent to teenagers socializing around a bench in rugged park of dead yellow uncut grass. white marble cross shot through window; in reflection of window children and teenagers appear to walk away from cross toward sign for “Caroline Mission.” low-angle wood sign hand painted in white paint “Shoe. An Vilin. Repair Shop. Open To Oll” with a white women’s shoes painted beneath text. Group of black and white youths from three to fourteen years of age perform one at a time in front of fake microphone in run down park for audience of Black and White children. Long line of children walking up stairs into “Mission” building. girl with dirty hands in colorful dress poses for camera with plate in front of her chest, camera pans up to freckled girls serious face. Poor white family of four children and a mother sit on stoop of rundown house as woman approaches them. glass door labeled “Juvenile Courtroom Division of Circuit Court” “Children’s Building” chiseled into top of building, camera pans down Romanesque columns to front door with address 1321. Man in hat and coat sits on stool next to old 1950 7up advertisement. Man in coat and hat walks on city sidewalk past ads in store windows for Tobacco and “the Famous 9-0-5 Barrel Whisky.” Poor…
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- Running time
- 10 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives