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Film, Video In the street

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About this Item

Title

  • In the street

Summary

  • "Images of street life in New York's Spanish Harlem during the 1940s"--Internet movie database.

Names

  • Levitt, Helen, camera operator, film editor
  • Loeb, Janice, 1913-2005, camera operator
  • Agee, James, 1909-1955, camera operator
  • Kleiner, Arthur, composer, performer
  • Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • United States : [distributor not identified : 1992?].

Headings

  • -  East Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
  • -  City and town life--New York (State)--New York
  • -  Children--New York (State)--New York

Genre

  • Cinéma vérité films
  • Short films
  • Nonfiction films

Notes

  • -  PA0000572364 U.S. Copyright Office
  • -  © Helen Levitt; 1992 copyright notice on film
  • -  Editor, Helen Levitt; piano performance by Arthur Kleiner.
  • -  Filmed in Spanish Harlem, New York, N.Y. from 1945 to 1946.
  • -  Prologue on film: "The streets of the poor quarters of great cities are above all a theater and a battleground. There, unaware and unnoticed, every human being is a poet, a masker, a warrior, a dancer: and in his innocent artistry he projects, against the turmoil of the street, an image of human existence. The attempt in this short film is to capture this image."
  • -  LC also holds the original silent version in the MacDonald (J. Fred and Leslie W.) Collection.
  • -  This film was selected for the National Film Registry.
  • -  Sources used: copyright data sheet; Eagan, D. America's film legacy, p. 423; Arden, R. Useless Reportage--Notes on Helen Levitt's In the Street viewed May 7, 2024 via RoyArden.com; Negative Space: Manny Farber on the movies viewed May 13, 2024 via Google Books, p. 45-46; IDFA WWW site viewed May 13, 2024 (In the street, IDFA 2002).

Medium

  • 1 video file (digital, MPEG-4) (16 min.) : sd., b&w.
  • viewing copy 1 videocassette of 1 (VHS) (16 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • VAC 1437 (viewing copy)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 92515876

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Chicago citation style:

Levitt, Helen, Camera Operator, Film Editor, Janice Loeb, James Agee, and Copyright Collection. In the Street. Kleiner, Arthur [United States: distributor not identified: ?, 1992] Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/92515876/.

APA citation style:

Levitt, H., Loeb, J., Agee, J. & Copyright Collection. (1992) In the Street. Kleiner, A [United States: distributor not identified: ?] [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/92515876/.

MLA citation style:

Levitt, Helen, Camera Operator, Film Editor, et al. In the Street. Kleiner, Arthur [United States: distributor not identified: ?, 1992] Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/92515876/>.