In the Street
In the Street is a 16-minute documentary film released in 1948 and again in 1952. The black and white, silent film was shot in the mid-1940s in the Spanish Harlem section of New York City. Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, and James Agee were the cinematographers; they used small, hidden 16 mm film cameras to record street life, especially of children. Levitt edited the film and, subsequent to its first release, added a piano soundtrack composed and performed by Arthur Kleiner. In 2020 Ben Model composed for a special Museum of Modern Art screening a new music score. This version plays about 18 minutes.
Cast
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| director | Helen Levitt James Agee Janice Loeb |
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| editor | Helen Levitt |
| events | New York City |
| musicBy | Arthur Kleiner, Ben Model |
| theme | documentary short silent |