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DVD

Picturing a metropolis : New York City unveiled.

Call Number

  • DVD 791.43611 P6119 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Chatsworth, CA : Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment, c2005.

Physical Description

1 videodisc (152 min.) : sd. & si., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

This DVD depicts dynamic images of New York City and scenes of New Yorkers among the skyscrapers, streets, and night life of America's greatest city during a half century of progress, while at the same time showing changes in film style and the history of cinema experiments

Notes

DVD format ; Dolby digital stereo.

Videodisc release of 29 experimental films originally produced 1899-1940.

Digitally mastered from newly preserved and restored 35mm and 16mm prints.

Not rated.

Contents

  • "Early views"
  • The blizzard (1899)
  • Lower Broadway (1902) / Robert K. Bonine
  • Beginning of a skyscraper (1902) / Robert K. Bonine
  • Panorama from Times Building, New York (1905) / Wallace McCutcheon
  • Skyscrapers of NYC from North River (1903) / J.B. Smith
  • Panorama from the Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge (1903) / G.W. "Billy" Bitzer
  • "Tricks of the trade"
  • Demolishing and building up the Star Theatre (1901) / Frederick S. Armitage
  • Coney Island at night (1905) / Edwin S. Porter
  • Interior New York subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street (1905) / G.W. "Billy" Bitzer
  • Seeing New York by yacht (1902) / Frederick Armitage & A.E. Weed
  • Looney lens: Split skyscrapers (1924) / Al Brick
  • Looney lens: Tenth Avenue, NYC (1924) / Al Brick
  • Scenes from Ford Educational Weekly (1916-24)
  • 8th Avenue elevated train at 112th Street
  • The trellis: work of sunshine and shade
  • View of Herald Square Station
  • Aerial view of Sixth Ave. train at 28th, 26th, 24th
  • Manhatta (1921) / Charles Sheeler & Paul Strand
  • 24 Dollar Island (c. 1926) / Robert Flaherty
  • Skyscraper symphony (1929) / Robert Florey
  • Manhattan medley (1931) / Bonney Powell
  • A Bronx morning (1931) / Jay Leyda
  • Footnote to fact (1933) / Lewis Jacobs
  • "Seeing the world," part one: a visit to New York, N.Y. (1937) / Rudy Burckhardt
  • The pursuit of happiness (1940) / Rudy Burckhardt
  • Gold Diggers of 1935: "Lullaby of Broadway" (1935) / Busby Berkeley
  • Autumn fire (1930-33) / Herman Weinberg.

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