Break and Enter (1971, sound)

Description:

Description: Made by the Newsreel collective in New York City, this film shows "Operation Move-in," in which Puerto Rican and Dominican families actively reclaimed unused, vacant housing on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

Newsreel #62. "This film captures the militant antecedents to today's housing reclamation movement in New York City. In 1970, several hundred Puerto Rican and Dominican families reclaimed housing left vacant by the city. They pulled the boards off the doors, cleaned and repaired the buildings and moved in. BREAK AND ENTER documents the activist work of Operation Move-In and the city's attempts to displaced the families." (www.twn.org/catalog/pages/responsive/cpage.aspx?rec=894&card=price. accessed: 2024-05-08)

Spanish title: Rompiendo Puertas. Also known as SQUATTERS.

Further information on Operation Move-In is here: www.nytimes.com/1970/04/24/archives/poor-families-taking-over-condemned-buildings.html?searchResultPosition=3

www.nytimes.com/1970/11/18/archives/police-arrest-32-at-squatter-site-protesters-back-3-in-illegal.html?searchResultPosition=2

www.nytimes.com/1970/10/11/archives/squatters-cast-doubt-on-housing-plans-squatters-cast-doubt-over.html?searchResultPosition=4

(accessed September 7, 2023).

Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com.

Subjects: 1970s, Latina/o/x/e and/or Hispanic people, People of African origin or descent, Latina/o/x/e and/or Hispanic history and culture , Black history and culture , Real estate, Housing, Cities, Activism, Poverty, Racism--Resistance to

Tags: urban renewal; demolition; bricks; streets; tenements; bulldozers; destruction; stoops; buildings; kitchens; man cooking rice; moving; stairwells; welfare; public housing; City Of New York West Side Urban Renewal Area sign; social services; gentrification; Puerto Rican people; service workers; cashiers; factory workers; working class people; marching in the streets; protests; tricycles; squatters; people power; transports; smoking; Operation Move-In; painting; songs; guitars; raised fists; food coops; newspapers; Unidad Latina; radicalism of the 1960s and 1970s; community organizing; squatter activism; tenants rights; women activists; feminism; childcare; community parenting; narration; interviews

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Newsreel

Credits:

Distributor:

Contributor: Roger Beebe

Source Collection: Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date:

Release Date: 1971

Geographical Location: New York City, New York; USA; New York

Genre/Form: activist, documentary

Language: eng,spa

Rights:

Film Format: 16mm film

Element:

Color: b&w

Color Process:

Sound or Silent: sound

Film Soundtrack Type: variable area

Edge Code:

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 1462

Complete Record: Description: Made by the Newsreel collective in New York City, this film shows "Operation Move-in," in which Puerto Rican and Dominican families actively reclaimed unused, vacant housing on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Newsreel #62. "This film captures the militant antecedents to today's housing reclamation movement in New York City. In 1970, several hundred Puerto Rican and Dominican families reclaimed housing left vacant by the city. They pulled the boards off the doors, cleaned and repaired the buildings and moved in. BREAK AND ENTER documents the activist work of Operation Move-In and the city's attempts to displaced the families." (www.twn.org/catalog/pages/responsive/cpage.aspx?rec=894&card=price. accessed: 2024-05-08) Spanish title: Rompiendo Puertas. Also known as SQUATTERS. Further information on Operation Move-In is here: www.nytimes.com/1970/04/24/archives/poor-families-taking-over-condemned-buildings.html?searchResultPosition=3 www.nytimes.com/1970/11/18/archives/police-arrest-32-at-squatter-site-protesters-back-3-in-illegal.html?searchResultPosition=2 www.nytimes.com/1970/10/11/archives/squatters-cast-doubt-on-housing-plans-squatters-cast-doubt-over.html?searchResultPosition=4 (accessed September 7, 2023). Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com. Subjects: 1970s, Latina/o/x/e and/or Hispanic people, People of African origin or descent, Latina/o/x/e and/or Hispanic history and culture , Black history and culture , Real estate, Housing, Cities, Activism, Poverty, Racism--Resistance to Tags: urban renewal; demolition; bricks; streets; tenements; bulldozers; destruction; stoops; buildings; kitchens; man cooking rice; moving; stairwells; welfare; public housing; City Of New York West Side Urban Renewal Area sign; social services; gentrification; Puerto Rican people; service workers; cashiers; factory workers; working class people; marching in the streets; protests; tricycles; squatters; people power; transports; smoking; Operation Move-In; painting; songs; guitars; raised fists; food coops; newspapers; Unidad Latina; radicalism of the 1960s and 1970s; community organizing; squatter activism; tenants rights; women activists; feminism; childcare; community parenting; narration; interviews Film Sponsor: Creator: Newsreel Credits: Distributor: Contributor: Roger Beebe Source Collection: Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar Collection Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive Production Date: Release Date: 1971 Geographical Location: New York City, New York; USA; New York Genre/Form: activist, documentary Language: eng,spa Rights: Film Format: 16mm film Element: Color: b&w Color Process: Sound or Silent: sound Film Soundtrack Type: variable area Edge Code: Frame Rate: 24 fps Length (feet): 1462