Summary

GIRL IN ROOM 20

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Title: GIRL IN ROOM 20
File Number: SWF-17 1 inch
Color: B W
Type: Sound Feature
Year: 01/01/1946
Description: B W 1946 Director: Spencer Williams Cast: Spencer Williams, Geraldine Brock, Robert Orr Daisy Mae Walker leaves home, family and her boyfriend, Dunbar Hamilton, to find fame and fortune as a singer in New York City Unfortunately, Daisy meets a seedy character, Arnold Richardson, who offers to be her agent Dunbar rushes to New York City to save her from the clutches of Arnold Although Daisy has become a big success, her boyfriend begs her to return with him to be his wife in Texas Daisy must choose between city-life success and small town values Black cast Black filmmakers Black audiences 00:01:30:00 B W 1946 vs Black family in living room parlor listening to woman soprano singing (standing beside piano) very nice cu shots of family members (mother with young daughter, father with pipe, thoughtful man listening dreamily, woman at piano), reads family values, simple pleasures (Pre-television , pre-MTV era of family gathered around the piano) 00:06:39:00 B W 1946 ls Couple leave small house, get in jeep & drive off rural Southern setting Jeep drives up in front of road house (7-UP sign in front) 00:07:14:00 B W 1946 vs Excellent shots of steam engine arriving at station bon voyage farewell scenes, blacks stepping onto train with luggage, train departs (side shot of train speeding away) 00:07:50:00 B W 1946 ls Blacks in small grocery store customer & proprietor 00:09:14:00 B W 1946 ls INT & EXT Pennsylvania Station, New York City excellent late 1940s New York City traffic & pedestrian footage (see also 0:44:31) W 34TH street sign pedestrians on West 34th Street, New York City 00:16:05:00 B W 1946 ls Black woman checking in at hotel, signs register 00:24:00:00 B W 1946 ls Black man tap dancing in hotel room to piano accompaniment (two others, a man and a woman, are watching - woman seated on bed reads informal house party small party) 00:25:23:00 B W 1946 ms Black woman (soprano) sings Swing Low Sweet Chariot (spiritual) 00:39:17:00 B W 1946 cu ms CU finger putting nickel into pay telephone slot, CU finger dialing telephone (pay phone telephone booth) black man in phone booth talking on telephone (he's Spencer Williams) 00:43:00:00 B W 1946 vs Black women in beauty parlor, woman has hot towel draped over her face (facial?) 00:45:00:00 B W 1946 vs Black man trying to rape woman in living room man (Spencer Williams) breaks down door, black men fighting in living room, frightened woman cringing (seated on sofa) 00:46:30:00 B W 1946 vs Knife falls off desk, hand reaching for knife on floor Man grabs knife elegant black woman in fur & hat appears at door, takes out gun & shoots woman on sofa is shot in stomach, bends over in pain (blood on dress) 00:49:12:00 B W 1946 ms Black nurse beside woman in hospital bed nurse looks at watch as comatose woman lies in bed 00:51:09:00 B W 1946 ms Recovering woman smiling in hospital bed, boyfriend visitor, nurse stands bedside 00:58:00:00 B W 1946 vs Black woman (soprano) sings Danny Boy at rehearsal
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