| New York, New York, It's A Wonderful Town | ||
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| Tape Master: | 1490 | |
| Catalog #: | 500189 | |
| Clip Number: | 500189-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | HFR-SFL-35-060 | |
| Timecode: | 01:52:08 - 01:56:16 | |
| Location: | New York City, New York, United States | |
| Year Shot: | 1930 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | BUILDINGS: Urban LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, New York, New York SCENICS: Urban | |
| Description: | Master 1490 - Tape 1 TLS well-dressed white pedestrians -- love those white wingtip shoes-- & minor auto traffic including a mass transit bus at quaintly inactive Times Square, NYC; minimal billboard advertising (note the Coca-Cola sign) and distant theater marquees. (32-6) Cut to grainy high angle LS Times Square, Planters Peanuts billboard above main intersection; tilt down to street traffic & pedestrians-- urban canyon, urban jungle, hustle & bustle, cityscape, activity. (32-2) Nice traveling shot from boat in harbor of docks, ports, wharf, skyscrapers, buildings, skyline in lower Manhattan; note the passing tugboat followed by the United Fruit Co wharf bldg. (5-4) Nice aerial of skyline, skyscrapers of lower Manhattan. (5-3) LS Manhattan skyline from across harbor, freighter passing in FG. Traveling shot from sailing boat of Manhattan skyline, skyscrapers, tall buildings, ports, docks, wharves (repeat of 5-4). LS skyline, skyscrapers from underneath Manhattan Bridge. (5-7) Phrase "Carnegie Hall" superimposed over TLS elegant late model 1930s automobile with white-wall tires parked on street, night. (37-3) Great low angle head-on TLS Statue of Liberty, day. Great extreme low angle head-on TLS Lady Liberty, American flag flapping in wind, day. LSs Statue of Liberty, smoke pouring from the raised torch (never seen that before). TLS smoke billowing from torch of Lady Liberty. (37-6) MS two U.S. Army soldiers in dress uniforms walking on-screen from opposite side of frame, meeting in center frame to shake hands before fairly large miniature model of Manhattan skyline (skyscrapers, tall buildings, harbor activity). MS miniature model of the Golden Gate Bridge. TLS/LSs facade model of South Lawn portico of the White House from which the American flag hangs, people climbing stairs -- note the Chinese characters (ideograms, lettering). Tilting MS miniature model of skyscraper. Tilting TLS two white men admiring miniature model of the Statue of Liberty. These might be exhibits at the 1939 World's Fair in New York. LS Manhattan skyline -- the real deal-- with large ferry passing in FG. (30-4) | |
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