DVD
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- CENTRAL: Audiovisual Collection
- WASHINGTON SQUARE: Audiovisual Collection
Men at lunch : the untold story of a city's legend
Performers
Narrated by Fionnula Flanagan.
Publication Information
[New York, NY] : First Run Features, [2013]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (67 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
New York City, 1932. America is in the throes of the Great Depression. The huge influx of Italian, Irish, and Jewish immigrants has led to unprecedented urban expansion. A photograph, "Lunch atop a Skyscraper," is taken during the construction of 30 Rockefeller Plaza. In it, eleven workmen are taking their lunch break while casually perched along a steel girder--boots dangling 850 feet above the sidewalk, Central Park and the misty Manhattan skyline stretching out behind them. For 80 years, the identity of the eleven men--and the photographer that immortalized them--remained a mystery. But finally, the photograph is beginning to give up some of its secrets.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally produced as a documentary in 2012.
Includes five bonus shorts: The 1929 crash; Rockfeller Center; Joe Woolhead on September 11, 2001; The inspiration of "Lunch atop a skyscraper"; Ric Burns on "Lunch atop a skyscraper."
Subjects
- Iron and steel workers > New York (State) > New York > Portraits > History.
- Documentary photography > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
- Foreign workers > New York (State) > New York.
- Photographers > New York (State) > New York.
- Skyscrapers > New York (State) > New York > Design and construction.
- New York (N.Y.) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
- New York (N.Y.) > History.
- Rockefeller Center > History.