Dong Kingman's "South Street Bridge," from 1955.
What a cool 15-minute movie this is of the late Chinese-American watercolorist Dong Kingman. This 1954 short was made during the ten-year period in the Oakland native’s life when he lived in Brooklyn and taught at Columbia University. It opens as the artist paints outdoors on Mott Street in New York’s Chinatown. Even if you’re not interested in Kingman’s work, the film captures the street life of that neighborhood from a bygone (and much slower) era. The movie was made by veteran Hollywood cinematographer James Wong Howe. You can watch it here.
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