Street Scenes 1970

In the late spring of 1970 nationwide protests against the war in Vietnam focused in the Wall Street area of New York City and ultimately in a major antiwar demonstration in Washington DC A group of New York University film students documented the demonstrations as they happened in both cities Later in New York the massive amount of black and white and color 16mm footage was edited into this important record of the daybyday events The extended final scene shot by Edward Summer in a hotel room in Washington DC is a spontaneous conversation among Martin Scorsese Harvey Keitel Jay Cocks and Verna Bloom who along with a large group of NYU students found themselves frustrated and perplexed by the events and hopeful that the protests would result in change