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Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

This is the blockthat I lived on from the time I was 1 or 2years old till I was about 14

This is the block
that I lived on from the time I was 1 or 2
years old till I was about 14

Full Transcript

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This is the block that I lived on
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from the time I was 1 or 2 years old till I was about 14.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
19
Timestamp in Movie
00:27:12
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.
Used to be a church here that burned down. - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:05
Used to be a church here that burned down.
This house was next door to where we lived, - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:07
This house was next door to where we lived,
And this whole block was full of houses. - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:06
And this whole block was full of houses.
Summer day like today, - Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 00:11
Summer day like today,
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