Description:
An African American mother and her children are at home in their apartment in the Columbia Point Housing Project in Dorchester. The children eat a meal in the kitchen while their mother washes dishes in the sink. Three girls watch television in a bedroom. Another girl tidies up a bedroom in the apartment. Shots of members of the family leaving the apartment building. African American children play in the courtyard of the apartment building.
1:00:00: Visual: An African American mother and her children are in the kitchen of their apartment in the Columbia Point Housing Project in Dorchester. The mother works at the sink. Her children are eating a meal at the table. Music plays in the background. One of the boys at the table picks at the meat on his plate. The mother continues to wash the dishes. Some of the children are finished with their meal and stand around the kitchen. Three of the children eat their meals at the table. Shot of an adolescent girl eating her meal at the table. A teenage girl checks on food in the oven. The mother continues to wash the dishes. Shot of the food on a plate on the table. The children and the mother talk amongst themselves. Shot of a young girl seated at the table, picking meat off of a bone. Shot of the mother's hands washing dishes. Shot of two young boys who are sharing a seat at the table.
1:05:06: V: The mother clears the table as the children leave the kitchen. A young African American man stands in the kitchen with the mother.
1:05:21: V: Three girls sit on a bed in a bedroom, watching Three's Company on television. Shots of the television; of a teenage girl watching television; of a young girl sitting on the bed.
1:07:23: V: A teenage girl plays a song by Michael Jackson on the stereo in another bedroom. She tidies up the bedroom while listening to the music. Shots of the stereo, photos, and a greeting card on top of the dresser.
1:11:02: V: The crew sets up a shot of the young man and the children exiting the apartment building. The young man holds the hand of one of the young children. Shot of the exterior of the apartment building. African American children play in the courtyard of the building. The children jump rope. Shot of the other buildings in the housing project. Children play in courtyards of the buildings.
Date Created:
05/24/1983
