The Rebirth of a Nation
The Rebirth of a Nation
On Preview Cassette 221469 NOTE: this print is badly faded, but the original A&B rolls are NOT FADED!) Fade in on City Planning Associates copyright line; pan school and suburban neighorhood houses with children playing in the yard. Cut to poor neighborhood, rundown buildings, boarded up store fronts, cracked sidewalks. Narrator Mort Linder says, "Ten milllion substandard homes, making up 20% of the nation's housing, but 45% of our major crime comes from these neighborhoods." etc. Titles appear over pictures of bad housing. Black children in poor area. Pan poor neighborhood, sub-standard housing, run down area. Oil truck passes camera and pan area with junked tires. Main title: REBIRTH OF A NATION supered over model of nice urban area. Diss to art work and publications sequence: PROGRAM FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT brochure. CODES & ORDINANCES heading. Development Plan for Terre Haute, IN. Book covers: Central Business District Study for Terre Haute. Capital Improvement Program for Terre Haute. Developmenmt Plan for Marion. Neighbordhood Anayses. Adminsitrative Organiziation art. FINANCING title with art background. RELOCATION. CITIZEN PARTICIPATION title. PROGRAM FOR COMUNITY PROGRAM ends this sequence. Step 2 is survey and planning application. A man with clipboard walks around the house. Cut to 2 shot, as he writes data while interviewing a woman in the house. Cut to office where studies are prepared for printing; art preparation and offset printing of the booklets. MISHAWAKA CITY LIMIT sign, and pan to LaSalle Conservation Project sign. Aerial shot of Mishawaka, IN. Pan school building. Non-cash grants in aid explained. School children climb on pyramidal playground structure. LS children and school. Cut to fire station, pan it. Cut to men working, preparing a sidewalk for concrete pouring. Cut to the poured sidewalk as men edge it. Cut to crane working on sewer ditch. Cut to lift truck pulling up a stake. Cut to poor street surface and road as dog crosses it. Pan pile of dirt as basements are being dug. Swimming pool with children swimming. Crane lifts flooring of building being removed, as debris falls from it. Pan remodeled houses, which have benfitted from urban renewal. Row of neat houses. Cut to small home, with new additions. Cut to several small houses, fixed up. Three people look at a home, and discuss the roof. Another home with imitation brick siding; damaged siding CU; finally the reworked home, with siding partially repaired. Two homes, side by side, one with siding, one without. Another pair of similar houses, one repaired, one undergoing work. A home is moved by a tractor-trailer. Rehabilitated and remodeled house side by side. Remodeled and painted home side by side with another which had not been worked on. Uniform row of white houses. Pan another area of good and bad homes. Line of sewer pipes ready for burial. Substandard home being removed. Three-shot as relocation expert gives a couple a paper, and shows their area on the map on the wall. Pan small houses, pan large housing units for multiple familes. City Hall front. Public heairng as citizens meet in large group. Pan crowd, pass opaque projector. An individual stands in the group, asking questions. Pan different areas of the group. Smaller urban renewal group meeting, with plans on the walls. Pan nice residential area, with children playing, tricycle on the sidewalk, and more children playing--repeat of the opening shot. End credits supered. 900' 16mm color sound film, on gray Compco 800' metal reel in brown GB 800' 16mm film can. Frink (FFV-5) has A & B picture rolls, orig overs, script, mag & opt tracks, ancillary materials. (this print is faded, but the A & B rolls are OK)