Let Us Break Bread Together

Let Us Break Bread Together

Rejissyor: Film Production Unit, Bureau of AV Instruction. A pictorial documentation which shows how integration and brotherhood are being promoted in a school district in New York City. PA-4146 Let Us Break Bread Together 00:00:24:29 - 00:26:24:00 Color Sound c. 1954 "Let Us Break Bread Together: How Brotherhood Builds Democracy" Semi-documentary film explaining pioneering New York City school district intervisitation program designed to bridge racial & cultural differences between children in predominantly White and Black neighborhoods. Narrator (Harry I. Rothman) w/ strange possible New England accent. 1950s NYC, United Nations building, UNICEF. School & community meetings, classrooms mixed w/ staged talking heads of children, parents (all mothers, no fathers) active in school life (PTA), teachers. (Christianity, religion, brotherhood, racism, education, integration, busing, ethnicity, globalism). 00:00:24:29 - 00:03:57:02 Color Sound c. 1954 Beginning credits. Mixed ethnicity congregation sings sermon "Let Us Break Bread Together." Talking head: NYC Superintendent of Schools William Jansen introduces film, School district intervisitation program designed to bridge racial, cultural differences between White, Asian & Black students. Great PAN New York City skyline. VO host "New York has stood for several hundred years and still stands- as the gateway to freedom and opportunity." (racism, ethnicity, tolerance, immigration, integration) 00:03:57:03 - 00:05:04:05 Color Sound c. 1954 Children in school classroom raise their hands. CU female teacher (sound out-of-sync) asks class for reasons immigrants have come to the United States. CU talking heads of 5 children. White boys- freedom of worship, escape from "tyranny of kings." Black girl- "My people are free now. They are proud to be Americans, but the Negroes were brought here by wicked men who traded in slaves." Japanese girl- overcrowding in Japan, desire to farm on land. Puerto Rican boy- father wanted to be employed & provide good education for children. 00:05:04:06 - 00

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