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FLYIN' CUT SLEEVES, completed in 1993, portrays street gang presidents in the Bronx. The project grew out of the experiences of Rita Fecher, the film's co-producer, who taught in a South Bronx school in the late 1960's and early 1970's, became intimately involved with the gangs, their leaders, and the leaders' families and began to document their lives. Their world was the streets, set against a backdrop of uprooted families, cultural alienation, drugs and violence. Neighborhood teenagers responded by organizing into street groups known to the members as "families", but labeled in the most alarming terms as violent gangs by the press. In fact, the "families" had a stabilizing effect, enabling the youths to cope with their troubled environment. The political climate at the time, movements of national liberation and such organizations as the Black Panthers and Young Lords Party influenced the young gang leaders to aspire to be more than warriors and to become, to some degree, a positive force in their communities. When Rita Fecher returned after twenty years to see what had become of her old friends, she found that they had stayed in the community of their youth, that they were deeply committed to improving conditions there and that they were engaged in helping their own children survive in the hazardous street environment. The documentation of these lives over a twenty-year period offers a remarkable perspective on life in the ghetto (spanning four generations), and the means that people devise to cope from the time that they are children to when they serve as parents and role models for a new generation.
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By C. F. Mason
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this is not a DVD...won't play in my player...it would only in my laptop...this purchase was terrible value
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Eye opening documentary for Hip Hop fans and Sociologists.
23 Jan 2011
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This is a powerful and impacting documentary. It features rare footage of the mostly African-American and Puerto Rican South Bronx gangs from the 1970's, and updates the footage by visiting the gang members in early 1990's New York. There is nothing predictable about the documentary, and it gives real names and life-stories of the actual gang leaders. It is essential viewing for those interested in the early years of Hip Hop, and complements and enhances the film "80 Blocks from Tiffany's" and the books "Yes Yes Y'All" and "Can't Stop Won't Stop".
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80 blocks from Tiffany's with updates
27 Nov 2012
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Most of this topic has already been covered in 80 blocks from Tiffany's the only difference is there's some recent footage of the main characters but anybody who is a Bronx gang aficionado from the early mid and late 70s knows this cast of characters one thing that is very interesting is during these prehip-hop days the gang members looked more like rock and rollers you know like bikers without motorcycles they were flying a lot hippie styles back then to with their and the jean jackets I personally like the West Coast style of dress with the bandannas much better when you can fly cut sleeves or fly blue or red bandannas but just fly your colors and represent respectfully Johnny Irish
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Good Stuff
2 July 2010
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This was a great documentary that showed how hip hop and gangs have always been intertwined.
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