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The Writing on the Wall
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The Writing on the Wall

Dec 11, 1986
0h 28m
★ 7.0

Overview

"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.'

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

New Jersey Network (NJN)

Cast

Too Sweet Hakeem

Too Sweet Hakeem

Phil Danzig

Phil Danzig

John Carlin

John Carlin

Roberta Crane

Roberta Crane

Henry Chalfant

Henry Chalfant

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