Diary of A Harlem Family, In The Street screens FREE as Part of Made In Harlem: Home to Harlem curated by Ina Archer.
Co-presented with the Documentary Forum at City College and Third World Newsreel
In The Street
Helen Levitt, 1948, 13 min. Digital
In The Street is an urban documentary focusing on the children of New York City's Spanish Harlem. Capturing New York's street energy with scenes of candid social interaction, This short film, shot by Helen Levitt and James Agee in the 1940s, captures the exuberance of NYC’s streets through scenes of candid social interaction.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.
The Friends
Kathe Sandler, 1996, 26 min. Digital
A coming of age story about the friendship between two young Black girls growing up in 1957 Harlem, Phyllisia Cathy from a newly arrived, upwardly mobile Caribbean family and Edith Jackson, Harlem-born and raised. Their friendship is a microcosm of the intercultural conflicts and accommodation between African Americans and Caribbean Blacks in the US, as well as a tale of two girls' struggle to build a friendship. An adaptation of Rosa Guy's novel "The Friends", directed by award winning filmmaker Kathe Sandler.
Diary of a Harlem Family
Gordon Parks, 1968, 20 min. Digital.
Diary of a Harlem Family reveals the all-too-common plight of one family living in New York City's black Harlem through the photographs of Gordon Parks. Includes the problems of inadequate educational background, restricted job opportunities, a lack of food and adequate heating, the drinking of the father and the despair of the mother, and the hostility and violence that results. Points out the importance of poverty agencies or other help, and leaves the family's difficulties unsolved.
Digital restoration courtesy of Indiana University Instructional Moving Image Archives and WNET/13.
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