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William Sarokin
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wiley in the river ND
This is different. It's a happy dog video. We had just rescued WIley from a shelter in New York then took him on a road trip. We found this wonderful spot in Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota and WIley discovered the Little Missouri River.
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We Live Here promo
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This is a scene from an unfinished documentary titled We Live Here. It is the history of one building in the South Bronx from the Indians to the present (the present being 1982). While most of the film was shot I had to abandon the production when funding dried up during the Reagan years. In order of appearance: Father G, Father Louis Gigante, a Roman Catholic priest desperately trying to save ...
Housing Court
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'Housing Court' is a documentary made by William Sarokin (Simpson Street) and Bienvenida Matias (El Corazon de Loisaida) in 1983. The court was established in 1973 to try to stem the rapid decay of housing in New York City, especially in the South Bronx, but was quickly overwhelmed by the sheer number of cases and the inequity of landlords with legal representation and tenants on their own.
Simpson Street
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This is a documentary portrait of a community in the South Bronx surrounding the Casita Maria, a settlement house on Simpson Street in 1977. It gives a brief history of the area and includes a shot of a young DJ at a roof top party. Then he was known then as DJ Flash. Later, Grandmaster Flash.
Simpson Street Part 2 of 2
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Simpson Street Part 1 of 2.avi
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Simpson Street is a portrait of a neighborhood in New York's South Bronx shot during the 'Summer of Sam', 1977. It opens with a brief history of the neighborhood and a description of the causes of the fire storm that destroyed an area of New York the size of the city of Boston. The focus though is on the life that remains. Watch for a brief glimpse of DJ Flash (now better known as Grandmaster F...
Thanks for the improved transfer Sarokin!
Still striving and overcoming 💯🦾
03:11 The rooftop party with (supposed to be) grand master flash. Thank you
This is beautiful...I actually want to see more of this. It really humanizes the struggle of an average black family in the Bronx of the 70's & 80's.
its not the best place for ALL children to be raised but it was the best place for ppl like ME to be raised. TYSM. i still live near there. 🌹💖
Wow! Nostalgia! I grew up in Hunts Point. Tough area. Had pigeons, sported my Afro, wore bell bottom Lees, went to Simpson street to shop with my moms and grandmoms, ate at Woolworths, bought fresh gear from the Jewman. The old days!
Also grew up in Hunts Point. PS 48, IS 74
Thanks for this historical video
Thank you so much for posting this. I couldn't find it anywhere.
NYPL has it in their collection
That audio clip actually from 1977?
Yup, everything was filmed in July and August 1977 (with one quick clip at the Casita filmed November 1977)
Thank you so much, I love it. I'm not from the Bronx, but still I Boogie Down from the Netherlands.
That was it. “You knew me & I knew you”. Neighbors were family.
Holy moly did anybody catch pure 1977 pre recorded hip hop t.y so much for sharing im blown away just as a hip hop fan
There will be more footage coming soon from that hip hop party filmed on the roof of the Casita Maria on 8/12/1977
@@williamsarokin Amazing to hear that, looking forward to it
I was born on Kelly street in the 1950s, not banana Kelly street, but what was called straight Kelly which been replaced by a baseball field. My family lived the history experienced in this area until 1974 before landlords began burning the buildings then we moved north to co-op city to avoid the total destruction. I remember the 1960s fondly when black families were intact and mobs of children played street games daily, which was the best part of my youth. I'm glad the residents that remained rebuilt the neighborhood, i hope that it will not be gentrify and wealthy people force them out economically
3:10 you have sort of an incredible sliver of hip hop history here looks like. looks to be dj flash and cowboy, way before the furious five days. pretty amazing that this exists, i never thought i'd see it, is there longer footage
Yes, I found an additional 8 minutes. Once I sync the sound it will be up here.
Did you ever sync the sound? That footage is gold!
Amazing video! Thanks for sharing! DO YOU HAVE MORE VIDEOS FROM HIP HOP PARTYS?
yes, I'm uploading it now
Dear man,I do not know how say to you THANK YOU!?🙉🙂🤜🤛 EARLY DAY'S OF HIP HOP,EMCEEING,DJing. I love it.
Quality so good not look like from late 70's. Is your movie???😮😊
@@funkyfreshzorro00 Hi Eryk, I took down the new piece temporarily so I can sync it up and use it for an event in the Bronx. It will be back
@@funkyfreshzorro00 yes, they were outtakes that weren't used in the film. It's a direct high resolution transfer from the original 16mm reversal film. The original was never projected so it didn't get scratched or dirty.
This is my Bronx! The neighborhood was impoverished, but the people weren’t. We didn’t really know we poor because we weren’t. Broke maybe but extremely rich. Just look at us! Do we seem unhappy to you? You’re watching people of dignity making the best of what was forced upon them by people with no dignity! I played in those bricks! I remember the smells. Unlike today, nobody was ashamed of their reality. We never needed to be something else. We just needed a little extra money. There was no “mental illness. “ Anyone with good sense could be your psychologist when needed. We were real with each other. If you were wrong we told you. If you did something stupid then we laughed at you. Nobody cared about your individual world view. It was real (not internet) humanity.
You got that right,I lived these times and absolutely have NO REGRETS!!!💯💯
Thanks so much for this comment. I'm not from the Bronx (I was a Brooklyn kid)but what you speak of is exactly why I made this film.
What nonsense! Subsequent generations of blacks and hispanics had no pride in their homes and neighborhoods......hence the destruction.
wow, just wow. I never met a person of any race or color or income level that wanted to live in crappy housing. I'm guessing you didn't watch the film because the pride and the desire to rebuild the neighborhood in spite of incredible obstacles s apparent in everyone shown
I'm a Midwesterner. Good on this video for mentioning COOP City, However. I've spoken with New Yorkers who stated that it was the Final Nail in the Coffin.
This is wonderful and I thank you ❤
This documentary film should be restored for historical purposes. Especially it being The 50th anniversary of Hip Hop.
thank you. The NYPL is working with me to restore the film. I'm also assembling and restoring outtakes from the hip hop party
Amazing work!
Thanks Mel
@@williamsarokin Hi! It's Mel, I produced a non-profit movie about Funk music, the documentary is released on my channel🎉🎶 Thank you for being part of it, we have credited you with this awesome video, hope you can love the movie, feel free to share and comment if you like, let's keep the groove going!! Mel ruclips.net/video/YcXXM6Ufx30/видео.html
Just saw your note. Checking the link now. Thanks!
Thank you very much for posting this ! A great work.
Thank you Hiroshi
The liberal mindset has trained us, like monkeys, to blame "powerful outside forces" whenever we witness yet another failed community. It's a neat trick, because it spares the community itself of the spectacle of the shame of its own depravity, and absolves it of responsibility at all for its own sorry state. We've forgotten how un-American it is to pass the buck for your own choices and shortcomings.
really? which part of the film did you not understand? this was about people trying to rebuild their neighborhood (and largely succeeding). if you have any specific questions please ask.
Saw the area go down; saw the area rise again. I stayed around and was fortunate to land an apartment in subsidized housing in the area. Many left but many stayed and waited for the rising of the area.
At 12:26 those kids are saying the same rhyme Cowboy said in the earlier clip proving that hip hop was becoming very popular in the streets. They would have been too young to go to the parties. Theodore, in an interview, claims that this was the first hip hop rhyme ever written and it was written by Flash.
I can still quote it by heart (which is pretty funny coming from a 69 y/o white guy). We're gonna dip dive socialize try to make you realize that we are qualified to rectify and satisfy that burnin desire to boogieall....
William all of the docs on your channel are absolute treasures. So grateful that you're willing to share them with us!
Thanks for the wonderful comment PB
Thank you so much for sharing the documentary including historic footage of Flash and Cowboy. Do you know if there is footage left on the cutting room floor that could show even more of these '77 Hip-Hop sights and sounds?
There is a small amount more. I'll post it soon
@@williamsarokin Oh, cool! And thanks for answering my question!
Yikes.
Brought back so many memories. I always thought as a kid that The Bronx had been bombed in a war. Learned something new today, thanks
I love hearing responses like yours
The Bronx was bombed out by the 1970s by the humans who inhabited it in the '60's and 70's. I personally know generations of hard working Jews, Italians and Irish who got their start in a clean, mostly safe, mostly law-abiding lower middle class Bronx. But culture matters. By the 70's the aspirational Jews, Italians and Irish were mostly gone, and a different culture set in ....
Lol Yes. Walking around as a kid, I would always wonder what happened...
@hankgoresich6836 In the beginning it was said the cycle continues....
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sweet
Socialism doesnt work kids... and decades later NYC is still at it...
Thanks for watching. When you can define the socialism part please let me know. All these buildings were privately owned. So perhaps this was more a failure of capitalism rather than socialism.
@@williamsarokin Capitalism is what brought it back from the dead and thrive. Socialism would have just kept it as it was. Socialism is great if you're in the bottom 25% of life. You get to ride for free.
Can you please put the "Bronx " in the title, so people can find it
@7:03 that’s my uncle, Wilton White Jr.
That is awesome. Please send him my regards. I remember him well.
He was a good natured and intelligent young man. I hope he's done well. Please give him my regards!
Amazing images capturing a time and place long since forgotten. A true time capsule of a film. Thank you for such a beautiful piece.
Sweet remarks, thank you
3-4 tell'em. Stuff is going this way now..
Wow! You may have the earliest footage of early embryonic & pure Hip Hop ever in this film from 77. As you know & credit it's Grandmaster Flash on the turntables but it's also Keith Cowboy on the mic R.I.P .... This is truly historic! Thanks for filming & uploading this. Do you have anymore footage of the party? Would love to see any uncut out-takes.
Thanks for your comments Mac and thanks for identifying Keith Cowboy. There is a little more footage of the party that I am meaning to copy and upload. I'll let you know when I do. I'm working on a show in New Mexico so it will be a little while before I get the footage together. All the best, Billy
@@williamsarokinThanks for getting back to me Billy! Wow, again that's amazing! This is literally the earliest footage of Flash cutting break-beats on time & the earliest emcee to rock longer more continues rhyme's to those beats. What we really now call the around the entire world as Hip Hop music! .... What were you're thoughts at the time when you were filming, did you think this was different? Amazing the footage with the dancers compared to the other footage of your historic film. Also glad to hear you're still making valuable documentaries ✌🏼
@@williamsarokin upload the footage ……….
@@Marcus-nt8yx he’s probably holding onto it to have it licensed for a documentary but I doubt any more reasonable footage from that party exists. If only he knew that was the most important clip he got.
My last home address in the Bronx, 1134 Simpson Street, from 1970.
This is incredible. I have shared it with a few hip hop heads, and everyone is blown away. Thanks for sharing!
A belated thank you Mark
@@williamsarokin Wow, thank you for the belated thank you 😉 Been into hip hop for 40 years, and to see the real Bronx (Mecca to me) was just fascinating
Worked there 8 urs
back then?
Amazing Film & Footage. Was the Party filmed in 1976 or 1977? If it was the 1977, I guess the whole Film was filmed before the Backout on July, the 13th 1977. Otherwise it would have been mentioned in the Film, i guess.
It was filmed before and after the blackout. The boy being interviewed while leaning on the roof parapet (Wilton) was the day after the blackout. There was no real need to mention the blackout in the film. It played no role in the story being told.
@@williamsarokin was the blackout even particularly relevant in the South Bronx? a lot of those neighborhoods were starting to get torched in the late 60s,so it might have just been business as usual for them
Compassionate and touching. Simply the best Bronx Documentary I've ever seen. A remarkable achievement!
Thanks for the kind remarks. I was incredibly touched by the people in the neighborhood and what had happened to them. I just tried to be as honest and respectful as possible.
@AmAf-t2g 03:11
is that busy bee rocking the mic
I wish I knew!
That's Keith Wiggins aka Cowboy (later of the Furious 5). He was Flash's first emcee. R.I.P.
@@thatrealschitt so its not busy bee
@@thatrealschitt thanks for the info. I never knew. Sorry about the RIP.
Pure slice of history! He shouts out Melle Mel too.
Nelson Morales was my printmaking instructor when he moved to Orlando, Fl <3 I still practice the old technique. Great teacher.
Wow Buddy in the beginning of the video Rest In Peace
Sad to hear Buddy passed. I always saw him working with kids on the block. He was a great guy. Do you know when? Is Mildred still around? And was that you when he says 'Luis here, he likes to win...'
@@williamsarokin don’t know a Mildred from over that way and he wasn’t talking about me in the video lol I met Buddy in the early 90’s he always was at his window when we would walk by Nice person he had a big heart
@@LS1973 that he did. RIP Buddy. Mildred was his wife. She ran the tenants association at 934 Barretto
Who does the voice over for documentary?
An actress named Nona Pipes. She did a wonderful job!
No Break or Boogie Dancers...
I wasn't hip enough to seek them out.
@@williamsarokin did they exist at that time?
@@sh0k0nes yup
@@williamsarokin where?
@@sh0k0nes At that time? Everywhere in the South Bronx
Remarkable stuff! Do you have any more footage of the block party featuring Grandmaster Flash? I'm pretty sure this is the earliest known footage of hip hop music based on it being filmed in 1977.
There was a little more footage of that party. Some of it ended up in a Netflix show, The Get Down and some in a new documentary called Decade of Fire.
@@williamsarokin If there is any way to share JUST the Grandmaster Flash & MC Cowboy segments, im sure youd make a generation of Hip-Hoppers extremely happy William. Mainly because the footage of community centre/ block parties etc with the Hip-Hop community from that period are just gold dust.....................This short documentary is stunning in terms of the history of the South Bronx, pertaining to the history of the city AND the culture of Hip-Hop. Thanks again....
@@RANDOMRAPRAD1O It might take me a while, but it's a good idea. I'll post just that party bit with any additional out takes
@@williamsarokin Many MANY thanks. It's really appreciated.
@@williamsarokin Amazing! Thank you so much. Can’t wait to see it.
See this link for a recent complete (in one part) upload of Simpson Street ruclips.net/video/iWvmsewKKdI/видео.html
See this link for a recent complete upload of this film ruclips.net/video/iWvmsewKKdI/видео.html
Thank you for posting this...not one junkie, prostitute, drug dealer in sight.. You never see the families, neighbors, and actual communities in the Bronx that continued to try to make it better. It was disgraceful that was allowed to happen in the US, let alone in one of the most powerful cities in the world...
Thanks for the comments Nicole. Watch for a new documentary, Decade of Fire, which explains what was going on and updates the story. All the best, Billy Sarokin