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CBS REPORTS: THE TENEMENT (TV)
Summary
One in this series of irregularly scheduled in-depth reports. This program focuses on the lives of nine families living in a dilapidated tenement on Chicago's south side. Program highlights depict the following: a mother and newborn leave Cook County Hospital; Georgia Johnson, a tenant for fifteen years; a mother washes for a family of twelve; an eleven-year-old cares for younger siblings; members of "The Four Corners" gang; children play in a vacant lot; the tenement at 10:00 pm; church service; a neighborhood fire; high school drop-outs; a tenant's funeral; and exodus of tenants before the building is demolished. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: February 28, 1967 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:52:15
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T82:0153
- GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries
- SUBJECT HEADING: Public affairs/Documentaries; Housing - Conditions; Chicago; Poverty
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1959-
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Jay L. McMullen … Producer, Writer, Reporter
- Jules Laventhol … Associate Producer
- Hughes Rudd … Reporter