http://archive.org/details/PlayStreet
[Image][Image][Image]In this mid-sixties documentary, the Police Athletic League closes down a street and turns it into a Play Street that becomes a summer camp of sorts for city children. The film looks like it was shot in upper Manhattan or the Bronx. The film's narrator has an irritating voice that's sounds uncannily like New York's current mayor, Michael Bloomberg. The children do arts and crafts, dress up, play games and have potato sack races. Would such children today do these activities with the same innocence that these children show? The early part of the film, where the camera pans silently over the slum neighborhoods and the desolate children playing alone in trash littered lots is the most eloquent. When we see the children at Play Street, a jarring and inappropriate baroque trumpet concerto comes on out of nowhere. This film is more about the good deeds done by PAL than about the children themselves, who we never get a chance to learn more about.
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