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Directed by | Charlie “Brown” Davis Jimmy “Country” Robinson David “Bat” Williams |
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Running time | 22 minutes |
The Jungle is a 1967 short film about gangs made by African American students under the direction of Temple University professor Harold Haskins.
It was written, shot, acted, recorded and edited entirely by African American teenage gang members Charlie “Brown” Davis, Jimmy “Country” Robinson, David “Bat” Williams in Northern Philadelphia, PA. [1] [2]
In 2009, it was added to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant and will be preserved. [3] [4] [5]