Inner City, The
Inner City, The is a short film from ca. 1958 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
St. Louis, Missouri
11:22:43:03 POV shot from swing looking out on the St. Louis skyline; CU smiling girl s face on swing
11:22:57:28 CU Blind child; boy tries to make out object on toy tree; CU boy s hands feeling branches of tree with little birds and beads on it; audio track What s St. Louis or any city for any child who is retarded and must find his way.
11:23:39:06 VS Young woman working with young blind boy turning pages of book with various materials in it for boy to feel; CU boy s hands feel various fabrics and textured materials.
11:24:18:13 Great shot from inside pet store window looking out on snowy street, two women take diverse group of children up to window to look at Dalmatian and Terrier puppies in window; VS children putting their hands up to cage filled with Dalmatian puppies; disembodied child s hand grabs at cage with a bird; blind boy holds a bird on his shoulder and smiles.
11:25:17:11 CU crosswalk traffic sign reads Walk; CU buses speed past camera; VS feet of men and woman walking across the street; CU crosswalk sign reads Dont Walk.
11:25:41:06 CU disembodied legs of man from knees down as man walks up steps, metal braces visible beneath man s pants; CU mans feet walking down stairs with crutches.
11:25:44:16 VS man working with prosthetic hand; CU prosthetic hand with metal hooks clamps onto wood block; CU man uses drill while holding wood block with prosthetic hand.
11:26:25:26 woman hands another woman crutches, woman slowly walks up steps with heavy metal braces on her legs.
11:27:07:21 CU nurse answers phone.
11:27:18:16 Grand Central Hospital Ambulance drives away from camera into the night; CU spinning emergency signal on top of ambulance; Emergency sign on brick wall, camera pans to EMT s pushing body on stretch up ramp into back of building; VS CU doctor s in ER assessing patient; CU disembodied hand holds down wrist of patient, patient s hand is clenched.
11:28:21:21 Operation room light enters frame whiting out the frame; VS doctors and nurses in surgery; patient is taken from the OR and wheeled down the hall, nurses holding up intravenous fluids.
11:29:06:18 CU crying newborn baby; nurse picks up baby, rocks it in he arms and feeds it milk from a bottle; CU disembodied hand of nurse fills baby bottles with milk then puts tops on bottles using tweezers; VS nurses filling trays of baby bottles in hospital
11:29:51:11 CU newborn baby with eyes closed feeding on a bottle.
11:30:03:12 CU young child is fed spoonful of food; CU cute little girl eating Jell-O with a spoon and her hand; nurses watches over two young children, boy and girl, as they wash their hands in the sink.
11:30:34:21 Tracking shot through hospital nursery; nurses playing with baby in crib, lots of babies and young children in cribs; VS babies and young children sleeping in cribs.
11:31:15:19 VS children playing on playground on slide and swings; great shot boy slides down slide, cut to MS boy sitting on bottom of slide with one hand on his face looking into camera with serious look.| Inner City, The | |
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| Produced by | Wilding Picture Productions |
Production company | Wilding Picture Productions |
| Distributed by | Wilding Picture Productions |
Release date | ca. 1958 |
Running time | 9:37 |
| Language | English |
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