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In 1962, one of the most massive urban renewal projects in American history removed the cultural and ethnic heart of Albany, NY. An arrangement made by first term Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller and longtime Albany Mayor, Erastus Corning the 2nd, displaced almost eight per cent of the City's diverse population, razed more than a thousand buildings, dislodged 3,600 households, and closed 350 businesses. The South End of Albany was a polyglot of cultures and customs, and because it has disappeared, its former residents, their children and their grandchildren. can never go home again. The Neighborhood That Disappeared will tell the story of intrepid immigrants and others that were uprooted by politicians who failed to value the community that they built.

More Than Words: The Photography of Newsman Bob Paley Bob Paley, a photojournalist with Albany's Knickerbocker News, was described as a poet with a camera. Often with a single photo, Paley captured the mood, the moment and the meaning of the forces that rocked mid-twentieth century America. He could see that one image in a complex series of events that conveyed more than words. More Than Words tells the story of how a small city in upstate New York coped with the powerful forces that were unleashed as America came of age in the years following World War II. The film is truly a newspaper story; a tribute to the tireless crusaders of America's fact-based media. The feature-length documentary draws heavily from the photo library of photojournalist Bob Paley whose images energized people and sparked social change. The stories of those who lived during that turbulent period are documented through the personal testimony and photographs of those who tried to tell the story of those times.