Home Movie: 098560 (silent)

Description: At the parochial school operated by the Church of St. Pius V in the Bronx, integrated groups of schoolchildren play games and handle the summer heat using a fire hydrant. Expressive photography captures the streets of the Bronx, and with sequences showing many children's games and pastimes. With children mugging for the camera, and with nuns organizing a school field trip.

Wikipedia page for Church of St. Pius V:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Rita_of_Cascia_-_St._Pius_V%27s_Church_(Bronx)
- accessed 6/22/2026

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Subjects: 1960s, Cities, Games and play, Religion, Children, Youth

Tags: children; play; the Bronx; city streets; cities; children playing in the street; jump rope; bicycles; play fighting; goofing for camera; stoops; The Bronx graffiti; nuns; Catholic church; Catholic education; parochial education; St. Pius V; boy holds motion picture camera; movie camera; jungle gyms; hand crafts; playing with fire hydrant; summer; hot weather; open fire hydrant; children loading onto chartered buses; school field trips; brief parade scene; playful children; intimate wrestling; intimate roughhousing; "St. Pius V" handmade title card; integrated groups of children; Black children; children of color; people of color; street games; graffiti; stoops; urbanism; children waving at camera; inner cities; urban settings; mother and child dancing; working class neighborhoods;

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Creator: Catholic church

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Craig Baldwin Collection, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: circa 1968

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Geographical Location: USA; New York; New York, New York; Bronx, New York, New York

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: print

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: triangle circle

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 290