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Gordon HitchensKen Resnick

Sunday On The River

  • Documentary

Footage of black life aboard a Sunday pleasure cruise set to song

RELEASE

1962-04-06

BUGET

N/A

LENGTH

28 min

Description

This short begins with footage of Harlem church congregations, but focuses mainly on a chartered Hudson River boat trip; Disembarking, we see picnicks in the park and dancing in the woods. Director Gordon Hitchens founded Film Comment magazine and believed strongly in film as a marker and influencer of social progress.

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