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A Call for Help from Sing Sing!

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Overview

This plea to reduce the growing numbers of imprisoned youths, with its warning from the celebrated warden of Sing Sing prison, is drawn from the October 1, 1934, issue of Hearst Metrotone News. The segment’s dynamic visuals, on-camera personal appeal, and extended length make the story atypical for a newsreel, but the form’s usual breathless pace is applied to a cautionary fable: the too-frequent “road” of youth from school through unemployment, homelessness, and crime and on to the gates of the penitentiary. -National Film Preservation Foundation

Details

Status: Released
Release date: January 1, 1934
Original language: English
Spoken languages: English
Countries: United States of America
Production: Hearst Metrotone News
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded