A five-minute, silent kinescope film of this live broadcast, now in New York's Museum of Television and Radio, is the earliest filmed record of an American television drama.
Television debut of actor Norman Lloyd who was still working at age 100 in 2014.
Only 11 fragmented minutes of the original 60 of the NBC production survived.
"The Streets of New York" a.k.a. "The Poor of New York" is a melodrama in five acts written by Dion Boucicault, adapted from the French play, "Les Pauvres de Paris", written by Edouard-Louis-Alexandre Brisbarre and Eugene Nus, published in 1857. The piece revolves around the efforts of a middle-class family, newly impoverished by the financial panic of 1857, to survive against a villainous banker.
The study "The Crime Films of Anthony Mann" by Max Alvarez, was published by University Press of Mississippi, November 1, 2013.