Castro Street

Duration: 10

Year Published: 1966

Creator: American Federation of Arts

Format: 16mm

Color: Color & B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Color, black and white, and negative film are superimposed and blended to create an impressionistic study of one street, featuring the sounds and scenes of a railroad yard. Layers of natural sound, jazz and pop music amplify the effect., A film in the form of a street—Castro Street running by the Standard Oil Refinery in Richmond, California. Switch engines on one side and refinery tanks, stacks and buildings on the other. All visual and sound elements from the street; one side is black and white, and the other is color. No narration. MCLS subject heading: Experimental, Miscellaneous & Abstract Films.

Complete Record: Color, black and white, and negative film are superimposed and blended to create an impressionistic study of one street, featuring the sounds and scenes of a railroad yard. Layers of natural sound, jazz and pop music amplify the effect. , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.


2 users have this film:
New York Public Library, Visual Studies Workshop


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