The City for the Right to School, 1974 (16mm dupe negative, scan 2K/Sound)

Location: Naples, Italy Creator: Wladimir Tchertkoff The school of Naples: this is the theme of the documentary, which concretely addresses a city situation and a problem of national interest. The survey gives a picture of the dramatic structural conditions of the school in the Campania capital: missing classrooms, entire districts without school buildings, schools that are unusable or with precarious toilets. But the film is not limited to documenting the complaint. Through a series of shots in schools and neighborhoods of the city, the testimonies of citizens and teachers, the parents' assemblies, the interventions of the left opposition within the city council, proves to be a popular will to fight to change things and to make the “right to education” concrete and real for all. 01. Naples, 1974. Overview of the city. Streets with people and street vendors 02. A session of the City Council; Giuseppe Galasso speaks 03. Animated discussion between a teaching director, a protesting parent and the director 04. Assembly between parents and teaching staff of the 48th educational club alternating with discussions on public schools in the city council 05. Inq of temporary classrooms set up in a private apartment 06. Streets with a very high manufacturing index. Views from the ring road of huge buildings that follow one another seamlessly 07. Interviews with mothers protesting for the sanitary conditions of a school 08. Children walk in alleys 09. Verbal clash in the classroom between the councilor Ettore Gentile, principal of a high school, and a representative of the majority 10. Demonstration in favor of the right to education; signs, interviews with demonstrators 11. The little boy of a bar comes out of the Maschio Angioino carrying a tray with cups of coffee in his hand 12. Interviews with children and parents 13. Interview with some precarious school workers 14. Public protesting during the session of the City Council, until the classroom is cleared the Alto district. Streets. Traffic. Procession with 'Health Reform, Homes, School' Banner