What are the names of these documenties and their directors: 1)an
older film about a neglected(?) child who watches a building crane
outside his window(?) and learns to mimic the sounds of the crane, and
2) the tiltle of a newer doc about people living in the tunnels on
Manhattan's west side?

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Clarification of Question by sailguy-ga on 14 Jun 2003 16:14 PDT

Thanks gang, I appreciate the help.

** note to other researchers **
I worked on this for a little while but can't finish it. Here is what
I found:

I believe number 2) is Dark Days by Marc Singer - a documentary about
people living in the tunnels beneath Manhattan's Penn Station.

WLK115-ga is right.  DARK DAYS is an astonishing doc and won top
awards at the Sundance Film Festival a few years ago.  It airs
periodically on Sundance Channel.  (I interviewed Marc Singer for it
-- he used all the proceeds to help get the people real homes above
ground.)
Chris Cuomo, son of former NY Governor Mario Cuomo, also was
supposedly making a documentary about people living underground in the
subways, but I've never come across it.

Here may be a lead to part one of your question about the crane.  I
asked a friend who is quite an expert on documentaries.  She says, 
"Well, not sure…
BUT
There was a British TV film about 12 years ago called The Lost
Language of Cranes, which makes reference to this pair of silent twins
or a silent child in England who communicated with the crane they saw
moving outside their windows – I think they were from a poor working
class family…Trying to find if there was a documentary made about
them… but it was quite a famous case."

She also suggests 
The Silent Twins: Without My Shadow
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0313607

and
The Silent Twins, directed by Jon Amiel
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0311808

Could any of these be what you're looking for?