Hope Is in Your Hand
Hope Is in Your Hand is a short film from ca. early 1960s released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
3:30:90- 3:40:90
Interesting overexposed shot from a very low angle (below car level) of an intersection in front of a wooden furniture store's parking lot (in Sacramento). Looks like home movie footage.
a film for the United Way of St. Louis in late 1950s to early 1960s.
11:33:22:14 CU deaf boy wearing earphones doing voice training exercises, disembodied woman s hands hold boy s hands over his cheeks to help him feel the various vibrations, zoom out to show nun working with deaf boy, Hope is in your hands superimposed over shot; CU nun showing boy how to move his tongue by sticking her tongue out to lick the tip of a candy cane; CU little boy wearing headphones licks candy cane; VS nurse working with deaf boy.
11:34:29:19 CU amplifier, camera follow path of cable plugged into amp to the headphone of young boy; CU young boy listening to music with hand on headphone; classroom of deaf children with monitors in their ears doing musical exercises banging sticks along to music, nuns lead classroom
11:35:05:29 CU disembodied arms playing piano, camera pans to classroom of deaf children playing musical chairs, nun leads the class; VS CU disembodied hands playing on piano and children playing musical chairs
11:36:02:27 CU nun hold sign written in cursive I love you. over her chest and holds deaf child s hand up to her mouth as she says words, zoom out to nurse working with deaf child wearing headphones trying to help the child to say I love you ; nun walks child outside, little boy runs and jumps into his mother s arms; deaf boy tries to say I love you to his mother.
11:36:42:19 CU chair bouncing up and down, zoom out to old woman rocking in chair while sewing; CU disembodied old woman s hand sewing with needle and thread over her lap.
11:37:02:21 CU disembodied hands stealing hubcap off of whitewall tire; policeman pulls up and catches teenager.
11:37:44:19 CU back of t-shirt on boy reads Corrupters YMCA zoom out to boy climbs on trampoline and performs trampoline acrobatics for diverse group of inner-city teens; great low-angle shot through trampoline springs of boy doing a back flip
11:38:01:11 Great shot CU disembodied African American man s hands help guide White boy s hands to properly hold the baseball bat; LS boy takes swing at baseball.
11:38:12:02 Sign for the Fellowship Center, pan down to man and child entering brick building.
11:38:19:19 Cub scouts setting up tents; girl scouts standing by lake, throwing bread in lake.
11:38:40:11 young girls swimming in pool; low-angle shot swim teacher showing children how to make proper strokes.
11:39:03:15 YMCA Youthmobile for Physical Fitness van parked beside trampoline; group of teens, predominantly African-American watching boy bounce on trampoline, pan over to two White police officers standing outside of their police car watching; MS police officers nod at each other.
11:39:15:18 CU General Electric monitor in police car, audio track of radio dispatch voice Attention all cars missing juvenile from 1723 Grand Avenue, white female 14 years old ; cops get into their car; CU disembodied hand of cope by dispatch radio in dash of car writes down note of call; CU police officer answers call on radio; low-angle police car speeds off; VS from inside police car driving through St. Louis
11:40:51:10 nurses push stretcher into OR; CU nurse places oxygen mask over mouth of teenage girl lying on stretcher, pan down to girl squeezing nurses hand, dissolves to man delicately holding newborn baby s hand in woman s arms; CU sleeping newborn baby in woman s arms; new adoptive parents walk down steps leaving Family and Children s Service of Greater St. Louis.
11:42:07:28 Zoom out to LS of St. Louis arch under construction about a third complete, United Way logo with arch over it superimposed over shot completing the unfinished arch.| Hope Is in Your Hand | |
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| Produced by | Hardcastle Film Associates |
Production company | Hardcastle Film Associates |
| Distributed by | Hardcastle Film Associates |
Release date | ca. early 1960s |
Running time | 10:10 |
| Language | English |
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