The Licorice Train

Duration: 8

Year Published: 1971

Creator: Cinemusic Productions

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Contrasts the lyrics of the children's song The Licorice Train with scenes from a subway train passing through an urban slum environment. Juxtaposes such views from the train as the crumbling buildings and children playing in the streets and retrieving nickles from the sewer drains with images created in the mind of a young ghetto dweller whose window overlooks the railroad tracks., Contrasts the lyrics of the children's song The Licorice Train with scenes from a subway train passing through an urban slum environment. Juxtaposes such views from the train as the crumbling buildings and children playing in the streets and retrieving nickles from the sewer drains with images created in the mind of a young ghetto dweller whose window overlooks the railroad tracks.

Complete Record: Contrasts the lyrics of the children's song The Licorice Train with scenes from a subway train passing through an urban slum environment. Juxtaposes such views from the train as the crumbling buildings and children playing in the streets and retrieving nickles from the sewer drains with images created in the mind of a young ghetto dweller whose window overlooks the railroad tracks., A film, set in New York City, about a Black child who lives and plays in a devastated neighborhood, all the while imagining that a grubby subway has become a sleek silver train that he commands. Contrasting shots show the other New York, the Central Park boat lake, the zoo, and children with cotton candy. A film without narration. , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.