# Before the First Word

Title from data sheet

Photographer, John Lindley ; film editor, Sara Fishko

Intended audience: Junior high school through adults

Issued also as videorecording

Follows New York times reporter Anna Quindlen and high school students Maria Hampton and Wilmer Ortiz as they write about life on Sullivan Street in New York City's Little Italy. Discusses how they prepare their stories and the skills required in the information gathering and writing processes

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1982
- By: Learning Designs (Firm), WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation
- Genres: Education, Travel, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/beforethefirstword)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/beforethefirstword?play=1)