[BP S76]

Description: Black-and-white footage documenting the physical destruction in the Watts neighborhood following the 1965 uprising. The film opens with a long driving shot down a wide commercial boulevard, passing utility poles and low-rise commercial buildings on both sides — the neighborhood before (or during recovery from) the destruction. Around 2:26 the camera lingers at a damaged intersection where a hardware store with shattered windows and a corner building with fire-blackened walls stand beneath a palm tree. The middle section consists of slow, deliberate close-ups of charred brick and concrete building facades — boarded windows, scorched surfaces, structural damage still visible. Later frames show industrial or vacant buildings and overgrown lots. Throughout, the footage reads as a systematic visual record of commercial properties destroyed in the riots, shot in the style of an evidence or survey film.