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Shot on 8mm film in 1956, this vintage home movie captures a group of adult men playing an impromptu game of baseball in the middle of a New York City street. The grainy, color-bleached footage shows players in casual 1950s attire—white t-shirts and trousers—running and swinging bats on a paved urban block. A yellow taxi and classic cars pass by as the game unfolds near a drugstore, with a pile of discarded items on the sidewalk. The handheld camera follows the action, creating a raw, nostalgic slice of mid-century American street life.
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