The Writing on the Wall
The Writing on the Wall

The Writing on the Wall

December 11, 1986 | 28 min

"In this half-hour documentary, Producer Sandra King provides an intimate portrait of a public phenomenon: Graffiti. Over an 18 month period, King and her crew followed the teenage members of a graffiti 'crew,' Vandals on the Street, as they painted and rapped and moved through the streets of downtown Newark. What emerges is a unique glimpse behind the 'tags' at the kind of inner city kids who write on walls, but who also make art; who create out of wedlock children, but who also form binding relationships; who drop out of school and never read a book, but who create their own brand of poetry through the medium of 'rap.'

Genres

Documentary

Cast

Naomi Scott

Too Sweet Hakeem

Naomi Scott

Phil Danzig

Naomi Scott

John Carlin

Naomi Scott

Roberta Crane

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