[BP S25]

This 24-minute black-and-white compilation reel documents multiple facets of the Watts community of Los Angeles in the late 1960s. The film opens with extended close-up footage of an African sculptural figure — a leopard or big cat rendered in a spotted mosaic/dot pattern, likely tied to a community cultural program. It then shifts to street-level neighborhood scenes (a man at a vintage Cadillac outside a "Cones & Shakes" shop) before arriving at coverage of the "Watts Demonstration Model House" — a post-1965 riot rebuilding project by architect Robert E. Donald A.I.A. and Associates, using Tower Homes modular building systems, built to show community members new housing options. Together the segments form a community portrait of Watts spanning art, daily life, and rebuilding.