In the Street (film)

In the Street
Cinematography
Edited byHelen Levitt
Music byArthur Kleiner, Ben Model
Release dates
  • 1948 (1948)
  • 1952 (1952)
Running time
14 minutes/18 minutes

In the Street is a 16-minute documentary film released in 1948 and again in 1952.[1] The black and white, silent film was shot in the mid-1940s in the Spanish Harlem section of New York City. Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, and James Agee were the cinematographers; they used small, hidden 16 mm film cameras to record street life, especially of children.[2] Levitt edited the film and, subsequent to its first release, added a piano soundtrack composed and performed by Arthur Kleiner.[3][4] In 2020 Ben Model composed for a special Museum of Modern Art screening a new music score.[5] This version plays about 18 minutes.

  1. ^ "Films Selected to the 2006 National Film Registry". The Library of Congress. September 8, 2008. Archived from the original on 2007-11-01. Retrieved 2010-10-09.
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  4. ^ From 1939 through 1967, Arthur Kleiner was the musical director for the film department of the New York Museum of Modern Art. He composed and performed piano scores for many silent films; his collection of 700 musical scores for silent films, which includes his own score for In the Street, is now archived at the University of Minnesota. See "Arthur Kleiner Collection". University of Minnesota. December 15, 1998. Retrieved 2010-10-10.
  5. ^ "new music score 2020". Museum of Modern Art, New York City. July 2, 2020. Retrieved 2024-04-17.