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1986

The Writing on the Wall

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"In this half-hour documentary, Producer Sandra King provides an intimate portrait of a public phenomenon: Graffiti. Over an 18 month period, King and her crew followed the teenage members of a graffiti 'crew,' Vandals on the Street, as they painted and rapped and moved through the streets of downtown Newark. What emerges is a unique glimpse behind the 'tags' at the kind of inner city kids who write on walls, but who also make art; who create out of wedlock children, but who also form binding relationships; who drop out of school and never read a book, but who create their own brand of poetry through the medium of 'rap.'

Duration

0h 28m

Released

December 11, 1986

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Cast5

  • Too Sweet Hakeem
  • Phil Danzig
  • John Carlin
  • Roberta Crane
  • Henry Chalfant

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