DVD
Top hat & tales : Harold Ross and the making of the New Yorker
Languages
Closed-captioned.
Performers
Narrated by Stanley Tucci.
Publication Information
[New York, NY] : First Run Features, [2014]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (47 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
This documentary shows how Harold Ross, a high school dropout and miner's son from Colorado, started the sophisticated New Yorker magazine in 1925 by masterfully capturing the Jazz Age spirit, Broadway glamour and ultra-dry wit. Incorporating a rich array of film clips from the 20s and 30s--speakeasies, jazz bands, rising skyscrapers--this film reflects a dazzling Manhattan evoking an image of a metropolis that still glitters. Includes interviews with current and former New Yorker staffers.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally produced in 2001.
Subjects
- Journalists > United States > Biography.
- Journalists > United States > Interviews.
- Publishers and publishing > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
- Journalism > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
- New York (N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
- Ross, Harold Wallace, 1892-1951.
- New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)