A Call for Help from Sing Sing (1934)

This plea to reduce the growing numbers of imprisoned youths with its warning from the celebrated warden of Sing Sing prison is drawn from the October 1 1934 issue of Hearst Metrotone News The segments dynamic visuals oncamera personal appeal and extended length make the story atypical for a newsreel but the forms usual breathless pace is applied to a cautionary fable the toofrequent road of youth from school through unemployment homelessness and crime and on to the gates of the penitentiary National Film Preservation Foundation