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Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

Summer day like today, when I was growing uparound here, would be full of people,kids...

Summer day like today, when I was growing up
around here, would be full of people,
kids playing, adults coming
to and from work

Full Transcript

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Summer day like today,
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when I was growing up around here,
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would be full of people, kids playing,
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adults coming to and from work.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
19
Timestamp in Movie
00:27:43
Uploaded
Jun 13, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Kartemquin Films,Judith Helfand Productions

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Movie Summary

A life and death story about extreme heat, the politics of "disaster" and survival by zip code.
I used to get the list from my mom, - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:06
I used to get the list from my mom,
It's just been an incredible 50-plus years - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:08
It's just been an incredible 50-plus years
If the heat wave happened when I was growing up, - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:07
If the heat wave happened when I was growing up,
When it got really hot, people would sleep - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:06
When it got really hot, people would sleep
I mean, imagine going from feeling - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:07
I mean, imagine going from feeling
Just acres of vacant land. - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:04
Just acres of vacant land.
- Orrin told me that much of the vacant land - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:09
- Orrin told me that much of the vacant land
This one created - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:06
This one created
The neighborhoods where black people had settled - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:09
The neighborhoods where black people had settled
The only way people could buy a home - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:06
The only way people could buy a home
- White speculators bought homes, - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:12
- White speculators bought homes,
- If I have you in a contract, and things go along - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:12
- If I have you in a contract, and things go along
I evict you, and then I can recontract - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:05
I evict you, and then I can recontract
- Most people had to work two or three jobs - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:05
- Most people had to work two or three jobs
Often they couldn't afford to maintain the houses, - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:10
Often they couldn't afford to maintain the houses,
- So when the federal government made it illegal - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:10
- So when the federal government made it illegal
You have banks making a decision: - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:09
You have banks making a decision:
"We're not gonna give anyone a loan - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:06
"We're not gonna give anyone a loan
"We're gonna close these stores and move them," - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:06
"We're gonna close these stores and move them,&quo...
You don't have steelworkers in Englewood anymore. - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:04
You don't have steelworkers in Englewood anymore.