Word: wiltwyck
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...same world. "He will have to have some of the experiences I had as a Negro or that his mother had as a Jew," he says. "I don't necessarily want to save him from it." Harry devotes some time to Negro affairs (the N.A.A.C.P., the Wiltwyck School for Boys, the Rev. Martin Luther King's Montgomery Improvement Association), gives 20% of his income to his partly tax-exempt Belafonte Foundation of Music and Arts, designed to "get young people with talent out from under the hammer...
...actors on the screen today. His shuffling walk, his painful stare, convey a sense of frustration and misery that lacks nothing. The supporting players, none of whom are "name" actors, bring out to the fullest the psychological implications of every scene. Clarence Cooper, a counsellor at Wiltwyck, plays himself in an especially sympathetic and understanding...
...Quiet One" is the story of a ten-year old boy, Donald Peters (Donald Thompson), who has grown up in an atmosphere of hate and poverty in the slums of Harlem. After several petty felonies, Donald is taken to the Wiltwyck School, where counsellors and psychiatrists try to help him by erasing the scars on his mind caused by his unhappy home life. The scenes of Donald's rejection by his mother, his unhappy life with his grandmother, and his exclusion from the society of other boys, are told in a long flashback of the boy's thoughts...
...scenes of the film were shot entirely at the Wiltwyck School and in the streets and dingy apartments of Harlem. The photography is superb; it not only portrays the sordidness of the slums, but also sets the mood at all times with varying patterns of light and dark. As a result, there is no need for the incessant narrative that typifies most documentaries; comments are brief and quite adequate. Dialogue is also cut to an absolute minimum, and it is a tribute to the acting and directing that so many ideas are carried across to the audience without...
...uses no technical terms, but some of the manifestations of guilt complex and frustration may be rather obscure to the non-Social Relations major. The picture does not give a blueprint for the treatment of all juvenile delinquents, and it is certainly not a publicity handout for the Wiltwyck School. It attempts to show the effects of insecurity on a young boy's mind, and the extent to which care and affection can overcome those effects. As the narrator points out, "there is no happy ending" to Donald's story, but the film itself is a happy...
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