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Story of a City: New York, The is a short film from 1947 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
PICTORIAL EXPLANATION OF HISTORIC & ECONOMIC CAUSES FOR EMERGENCE OF NEW YORK AS ONE OF WORLD'S LARGEST CITIES & OF ITS VITAL RELATION TO REST OF AMERICA.
Shots: aerials of Manhattan; Central Park; Chrysler Building; maps; view from the ferries; Statue of Liberty; New York Harbor; ships; at the time the biggest and busiest port in the world; carrying almost half of the entire foreign trade of the United States; street sign: Wall Street financial district; various banks; New York Stock Exchange; Egg truck; garment district workers moving along handtrucks packed with merchandise; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art Street sign: Park Avenue (51st street) Park Avenue; Grand Central Station; Queens: 59th Street Bridge (Queensborough Bridge); Elmhurst gas tanks; Queens-Midtown Tunnel; city buses; subway; nickel subway fare; Third Avenue El (elevated railway); A&P Supermarket; laundry; Lower East Side; produce from pushcart vendor; City Hall; Municipal Building; Department of Sanitation truck, street cleaner; Empire State Building; Waldorf-Astoria; Rockefeller Center; street sign: Exchange Place (Broad Street) smokestacks; horse-drawn carriage and biking in Central Park; also Central Park lake; The Ambassador hotel; the New Yorker Hotel; RCA Communications Building;
young people playing on fire escape ladder;Story of a City: New York, The | |
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Produced by | Simmel-Meservey |
Production company | Simmel-Meservey |
Distributed by | Simmel-Meservey |
Release date | 1947 |
Running time | 20:00 |
Language | English |
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