People of a City

Year Published: 1957

Complete Record: Stockholm, Sweden. Machines, marching, old man and boy, "arty stuff" and shadows, traffic and pedestrians. daily life in the streets, beautiful shots. Lots of seagulls. Ariel shots of the city streets and monuments (bird’s eye view). Men and women on the street, walking and driving. Children playing, feet walking. CU of someone typing at a desk. CU of factory gears and machines. Ambulance goes by...POV shot from the ambulance. CU of good looking man walking down the street. It starts to rain and everyone ducks into doorways until it passes. Man sees pretty girl in doorway and they make eyes with one another. The rain lets up and the man and woman walk off together. Boys play ball in the street. Three of them hide out in a huge church...they walk around slowly, in awe. A man sees them and smiles after they drop a bag of marbles on the floor. A parade is going on outside...horses, uniforms, marching band, batons. A fisherman draws in his net on his boat. People watch from the bridge. A man paints the fisherman. A little boy watches. The fisherman drops the net so he can comb his hair and mustache to look pretty for the painting. A tug boat tugs by. Little boy fishes from the bank. Another boy trades his bag of marbles for his fishing pole and starts to fish. Seagulls steal his bait. Night approaches and the street lights are turned on. The fisherman and his son walk down the street together. A blind man plays violin.