by Linda Kay
Photographed by: Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, James Agee
Synopsis: Documentary footage of the people and places around New York’s Spanish Harlem in the mid-twentieth century.
Reality Cats: In one shot of this short silent film two black and white cats preen each other in a window.
In another shot a man sits at a window smoking a cigar alongside a bicolor kitten.
Final Mewsings: There is a cat (or two) in Spanish Harlem . . .
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