New York City
The Big Apple is the city that never sleeps from the Turn-of-the-Century to the Present.
Midtown Manhattan at Night-Time Square-Theater District
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Audio:
539341_1_3
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1995
Color
Several TLS lights, advertisements and traffic on Broadway Ave, shows man hailing a taxi cab. MCU of stock market prices scrolling by on Morgan Stanley Building electronic ticker.
Time Lapse Traffic in New York City. Day
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Audio:
541815_1_3
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1995
Color
Time lapse / fast motion views of Herald Square, city traffic and pedestrian crowds on sunny day. Closer view of traffic in fast motion, lots of taxi cabs.
Time Lapse Traffic in New York City. Day
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Audio:
541815_1_2
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1995
Color
Time lapse / fast motion views of Herald Square, city traffic and pedestrian crowds on sunny day. Closer view of traffic in fast motion, lots of taxi cabs.
Midtown Manhattan at Night-Time Square-Theater District
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Audio:
539341_1_5
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1995
Color
GV pans from bright lights of Broadway Ave establishments & advertisements (Banana Republic, Roxy Deli, Stanley Morgan) to the bright electronic advertisements for Suntory Whiskey, Coca-Cola and Samsung on building.
Midtown Manhattan at Night-Time Square-Theater District
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Audio:
539341_1_4
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1995
Color
Several TLS lights, advertisements and traffic on Broadway Ave.
Radio City Music Hall - Night
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Audio:
539348_1_1
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1995
Color
Radio City Music Hall - Night
Talent is cleared, unless otherwise noted. Crowd shots are not cleared.
Low angle MS facade of Radio City Music Hall at night. Wide GV Radio City Music Hall w/ neon signs turned on, advertising the Christmas Spectacular Show. Beautiful GV of Radio City Music Hall lit up at night, vehicular & pedestrian traffic in FG, camera tilts up block view of street.
Rockefeller Center--Holiday Season-Night
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Audio:
539343_1_1
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1995
Color
Rockefeller Center - Holiday Season - Night
Talent is cleared, unless otherwise noted. Crowd shots are not cleared.
GVs Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center lit up at night. LS Rockefeller Center Xmas tree w/ horse and carriage in FG. TLS people walking towards Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. TLSs Christmas decorations outside Rockefeller Center-- gilded angels and trumpets and lights and that big old tree.
Midtown Manhattan at Night-Time Square-Theater District
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Audio:
539341_1_6
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1995
Color
Tilt up to electronic advertisement for Suntory Whiskey, Coca-Cola and Samsung on tower. Nice GV pans of Times Square showing the iconic location lit up at night (Howard Jognson s, Canon, JVC, McDonalds, ect). TLSs Times Square w/traffic moving. Several GV/TLSs traffic & lights of Times Square.
New York City Streets
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Audio:
373462_1_2
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1995
Color
Pan down from street sign ("W52nd/Swing St") to crowds on sidewalk.
New York City Streets
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Audio:
373462_1_4
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1995
Color
Asian business woman hails taxi cab. Yellow cab pulls up to curb. Couple of takes
Manhattan Traffic
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Audio:
539086_1_1
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1996
Color
Manhattan Traffic - Talent is cleared, unless otherwise noted. Crowd shots are not cleared.
TLS downtown Manhattan traffic at dusk with Empire State Building in distance, all vehicals move away from camera (cars, truck, taxiis, bicycle). Night TLS with a more abstract feel of traffic moving below towering buildings, cars & pedestrians move about.
NYC Neighborhood
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Audio:
433063_1_2
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1995
Color
Street level GV of vehicular & pedestrian traffic passing through intersection at 2130 Broadway (Beacon Hotel), appears to be a somewhat mild fall or winter day with people dressed in light jackets / coats.
NYC Neighborhood
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Audio:
433063_1_3
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1995
Color
Panning street level GVs of vehicular traffic including yellow taxi cabs driving through intersection at W. 73rd and Amsterdam Avenues, passing Star Magic - Space Age Gifts & P&G Cafe Bar . GV pedestrians in light weight coats crossing intersection in front of P&G Cafe Bar , a typical corner tavern and restaurant.
Midtown Manhattan at Night-Time Square-Theater District
Clip#:
Audio:
539341_1_2
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1995
Color
Tilt up from sidewalk to TLSs of Broadway Ave. w/vehicular traffic passing in front of Morgan Stanley Building with stock market ticker. Establishing GV of Morgan Stanley Building at 1585 Broadway with stock market ticker, pan LT to show Broadway Ave. lined by The Olive Garden , IMB & theater banners advertising "Les Miserables" & Phanton of the Opera , steady stream of traffic seen.
Time Lapse Traffic in New York City. Day
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Audio:
541815_1_6
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1995
Color
Time lapse, Close shot, traffic in fast motion filling frame, coming towards camera.
Time Lapse Traffic in New York City. Day
Clip#:
Audio:
541815_1_5
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1995
Color
WS time lapse shots of Times Square on sunny day, advertisements prominent include Samsung and Coca-Cola; lots of auto traffic.
Time Lapse Traffic in New York City. Day
Clip#:
Audio:
541815_1_4
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1995
Color
WS time lapse shots of Times Square on sunny day, advertisements prominent include Samsung and Coca-Cola; lots of auto traffic.
New York City Stock Shots 2 - pedestrians on busy sidewalk.
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Audio:
531143_1_2
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1996
Color
LS scrolling sign with news headlines, stock market news. Zoom in. Zoom out. Pan to MS pedestrians on busy sidewalk.
New York City Stock Shots 2 - pedestrians on busy sidewalk.
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Audio:
531143_1_3
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1996
Color
MS pedestrians on busy sidewalk.
New York City Stock Shots 1 - Brooklyn Bridge
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Audio:
531155_1_3
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1996
Color
Brooklyn Bridge with skyscrapers behind. Zoom out, pan to NY skyline with World Trade Center in distance.
New York City Stock Shots 1 - New York Skyline
Clip#:
Audio:
531157_1_1
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1996
Color
New York City Stock Shots 1 - New York Skyline
New York, NY
Pan down to skyline with World Trade Center in distance. Repeat.
New York City Stock Shots 1 - Skyscraper
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Audio:
531163_1_1
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1996
Color
New York City Stock Shots 1 - Skyscraper
New York, NY
LS World Trade Center towers and other buildings over cluster of pretty spring trees
New York City Stock Shots 1 - Pedestrians
Clip#:
Audio:
531164_1_2
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1996
Color
MS pedestrians walking on busy sidewalk, Bank of New York marquee in distance. Crowd is mix of suits and working class
New York City Stock Shots 1 - New York Skyline
Clip#:
Audio:
432959_1_1
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1996
Color
New York City Stock Shots 1 - New York Skyline
New York, NY
WS NY skyline with World Trade Center in distance. Bright sunny day looking at Manhattan across East River.
New York City Stock Shots 2 - Apollo Theater
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Audio:
432960_1_3
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1996
Color
Slow moving shot of Apollo marquee, listing Amateur Night.
Street Scenes in New York
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Audio:
505298_1_4
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1985
Color
TLS pedestrians crossing street, Federal Express (FedEx, Fed Ex) delivery truck waiting for them to pass, New York City, New York. High angle TLS/LSs pedestrians crossing at crosswalk, automobile traffic (taxi cabs, commuter buses, black limousine, USPS mail truck, delivery truck, etc) crossing intersection; great cross-section of ethnicities, ages, genders, professions, etc.
NYC Street Scenes
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Audio:
523402_1_7
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1930
B/W
NYC nightlife & entertainment. TLS crowd milling beneath The News Reel Theater, marquee advertising Hearst Movietone. LS skyscraper, night. High angle LS busy Times Square, night. TLS cars pulling up to curb, doormen opening doors, ushering out wealthy white couples. CU bartender shaking martini shaker; nice DOF MS bartender pouring martini for clientele at bar; MS chef prepping food near pass window; MS waiters in tuxedos picking up food dishes; TLS wealthy white people in restaurant dining room. TLS crowd, cars, marquee outside Roxy Theater. LS extravagant musical number being performed on stage (high kicking chorus line on battleship stage). H/a LS street traffic, automobiles, night. MS professional wrestlers performing in ring, rolling on mat, referee trying to count. Great MS bartender mixing, shaking martini. MS chorus girls in matching outfits dancing. TLS/MSs stodgy well-dressed white couples dancing in ballroom. MS African-American couple social dancing, swinging to jazz. Rear view traveling shot Times Square, Broadway, night. MS ornate steel-frame street lamp; LS empty streets, street lights turning off, night.
New York: The Wonder City
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Audio:
490359_1_2
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1930
B/W
WLS Statue of Liberty; excellent l/a TLS Lady Liberty's face, crown & torch, American flag flying in BG. Aerial of downtown Manhattan (skyscrapers & such). L/a MS street signs for intersection of Broadway & Bowling Green. TLS tall monolithic buildings & hustle and bustle of business & financial district. L/a MS street sign for Wall Street (Nassau St), tall buildings in BG. Great TLS cavernous street, tall buildings, people on sidewalk-- stunning DOF. EST shot of the "Sub-Treasury", aka Federal Building at 26 Wall Street with bronze statue of George Washington, pedestrians in FG. Nice LS tall buildings (skyscrapers) of Financial District in lower Manhattan. EST shot of City Hall.
New York: The Wonder City
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Audio:
490359_1_3
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1930
B/W
EST shot of the Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan skyline in BG. THE BOWERY: great TLS street traffic traveling under L train tracks, passenger car & delivery trucks & street car trolley driving through latice of shadows, towards cam; MS customers at an open-air market. CHINATOWN: TLS/MSs Chinese New Year's parade, replete w/ Chinese dragons & woman dancing with jeet knives. L/a MS street signs at intersection of 5th Avenue & Washington Square North; TLS Washington Arch at Washington Square Park.
New York: The Wonder City
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Audio:
490359_1_4
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1930
B/W
Aerial of the Empire State Building. Aerial of the Chrysler Building. L/a CU street sign for 42nd Street at 5th Ave. H/a LS/TLSs St. Patrick's Cathedral on Easter Morning, large crowd gathered outside church. L/a MCU street sign for Rockefeller Plaza at W. 49th, followed by EST shots Rockefeller Plaza, building, statue and fountain. TLS people ice skating in Central Park (winter). LS Central Park, tall buildings in BG (spring).
New York: The Wonder City
Clip#:
Audio:
490359_1_5
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1930
B/W
HARLEM: MS African-American police officer directing traffic; TLS busy intersection, pedestrain crossing street or waiting at curb; MCU several black children; MS black boy dancing, crowd of black youth applauding him on. EST shot George Washington Bridge. L/a MCU street sign for W. 42nd Street at Times Square. EST shots of Times Square at night, all lit up by neon signs and passing motor cars. LSs of the city (Manhattan) at night.
The Twentieth Century - The Creative Thirties Retrospective film on American ...
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Audio:
494632_1_30
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1930
B/W
Nighttime traveling shot POV driver on city street with lots of bright lights, Minksy's Gaiety, Automat, Camels, Chevrolet. Pedestrians on street w/ bright signs.
NYC Street Scenes
Clip#:
Audio:
523402_1_2
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1930
B/W
LS/TLSs silhouette of skyscrapers, tall buildings in New York City. High angle LS urban canyon, array of half-lit tall buildings in congested NYC. Nice low angle TLS Chrysler Building. Great LS skyscrapers, cityscape, skyline of Lower Manhattan, Brooklyn Bridge in FG. TLS empty streets, tall buildings, corner of W. 42nd Street. Nice low angle TLS Washington Arch in Washington Square Park, man resting on park bench in FG. LS empty alley, street in Bowery. LS empty street, urban canyon. MS white & black cat on sidewalk. TLS white man steeping from walk-up apartment building, walking along sidewalk. TLS Sheffield Farms Company milkman stepping from horse-drawn carriage w/ delivery. TLS white man washing face in basin on street. TLS white man sweeping street. LS NYC skyline, Brooklyn Bridge & Harbor in FG. H/a TLS L train (el train, elevated train) pulling into stop; TLS L train rounding bend on elevated tracks, ornate lamp on screen left. Nice LS bustling street scene, traffic, as viewed through steel lattice railing. H/a rear view TLS crowd cramping sidewalk. Extreme h/a LS pedestrians on sidewalk beneath L tracks. MS white man buying paper at corner newsstand. Great MSs people waiting, boarding, riding underground subways; TLS crowd emerging from subway, stepping onto street. TLS/MSs passengers on ferry pulling into port, alighting boat. Great extreme h/a MS pedestrians on sidewalk. L/a TLS skyscrapers (nice angle).
NYC Street Scenes
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Audio:
523402_1_3
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1930
B/W
MS two postal carriers passing cam, man entering post office in BG. CU speedy hands on typewriter. MS several white women sorting mail. MS white woman typing. High angle LS Times Square. MS pedestrians, white-gloved police officer in FG. Low angle MS automobile traffic passing cam. H/a TLS trucks on street. LS military ship sailing in New York Harbor, Manhattan skyline in BG. LS tugboat pushing against passenger ship in harbor. LS Manhattan skyscrapers, skyline from boat in harbor. TLS unidentified art deco building. Low angle TLS unidentified skyscraper. MS steam shovel carrying large rock. MS man using jackhammer, leg draped across machine. MS man welding. TLS men repairing gutter, two streetcars (trolleys) passing in BG. MS two men wrenching rivets on steel beam high over city (building skyscraper, construction). TLS white men sitting, reading stock quotes in investment firm. TLS crowd on bustling stock exchange floor (doesn t appear to be Wall Street). LS white women-- some pushing prams (baby carriage, stroller) -- crossing street near park, traffic cop halting traffic. MS white people riding horses in park.
NYC Street Scenes
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Audio:
523402_1_4
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1930
B/W
Great h/a urban canyons, maze of skyscrapers. MS ornate clock, time of high noon. MS carriage driver strapping feedbag onto reins of horse on street. TLS laborers standing in line at lemonade stand (vendor, lunchtime). MS laborers (note the snap-brim caps) on lunch break. TLS men sleeping on grass or on benches n park, one fella w/ fedora hat over eyes. Tilting h/a LS traffic on street. TLS crowd, trolley crossing street. Panning MS black man carrying racks of cut fur pelts. MSs pedestrians walking along sidewalks, crossing streets, one man w/ large packages. MS automobiles moving slowly along street. Rear view traveling shot fire truck responding to call, zipping along congested street; TLS fire truck arriving at call, several police officers (?) getting off. High angle LS mounted cops driving back large crowd of striking or protesting labor union workers (breaking up strike).
NYC Street Scenes
Clip#:
Audio:
523402_1_5
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1930
B/W
MS Chinese language posted bills on fence. TLS Chop Suey houses & restaurants in Chinatown, NYC. MS 3 well-dressed Chinese men walking along sidewalk, passing 3 white women chatting on stoop, one fella taking a long hard glance at one of the dames. Low angle TLS what appears to be the Empire State Building (though construction wasn't completed until 1931), L train passing in FG. TLS group of African-American men standing, chatting on street corner in Harlem. MSs well-dressed blacks walking along sidewalk, crossing street in Harlem (evocative of the Harlem Renaissance). Great low angle MS firefighters sliding down pole in fire station. Rear view MS firefighters riding fire truck responding to call, winding through streets. LS building fa ade crumbling onto street, fire hoses spraying water. Great extreme h/a LS street traffic, cars, streetcars, pedestrians. Nice MS white police officer (cop) standing on street corner, dangling billy club, checking out the gams or legs of two chicks passing by. MS chauffer opening door of fancy car. TLSs crowd entering & exiting department store. H/a TLS bustling department store floor, busy sales girls. MS white woman window-shopping. Panning Ms white man in tuxedo, tails, top hat & cane walking along street. MS white man wearing bowler derby window-shopping. Extreme h/a MS men talking on sidewalk.
NYC Street Scenes
Clip#:
Audio:
523402_1_6
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1930
B/W
LS skyscrapers, tall buildings. Tilting TLS tenement building, laundry hanging from lines. MS/CUs Jewish man counting money at street vendor. MS/CUs immigrant Jews on street. TLS kids riding in small, hand-cranked carousel mounted on horse-drawn cart. TLS/MS white kids roller-skating, riding bicycles in park. TLS clock tower. LS Manhattan skyscrapers, Hudson River, Chrysler Building. High angle LS street traffic. L/a TLS skyscraper, W. 33 & 5th Avenue sign in FG. L/a U.S. Navy zeppelin (dirigible) in flight over city. Extreme h/a LS pedestrians crossing street, auto traffic, intersection. MS people passing, entering subway entrance. MS 5th Avenue & E. 50th St. sign, tall bldg in BG. Nice LS Manhattan skyline, Brooklyn Bridge in silhouette, early evening. L/a TLS suspension tower of Brooklyn Bridge. TLS pedestrians crossing street at busy intersection. LS/TLSs Manhattan skyline, skyscrapers, early evening (lights on in some bldgs, Hudson in FG). LS Manhattan Bridge in silhouette, early evening.
The Innocent Years - Part Two. Fashion styles among wealthy women.
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Audio:
530328_1_2
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1900
B/W
MSs wealthy and well-to-do white adults pedestrians walking along streets of New York City (women are fancily dressed in furs and fine clothes, the men in suits and top hats).
Focus on 1900-1909 - How We Lived
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Audio:
494892_1_16
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1901
B/W
Wide MS immigrants walking with belongings along boardwalk at Ellis Island. Cut to traveling MS Lower East Side ghetto, New York City, children running and waving at camera passing by street vendors. Excellent MS Lower East Side street scene (vendors, pedestrians, horse & carriages, policeman twirling baton). TLS NYC street scene (hose and carriages, trolleys, pedestrians, etc).
Focus on 1900-1909 - How We Lived
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Audio:
494892_1_9
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1901
B/W
Excellent shot of street traffic in New York City, early 1900s (pedestrians, trolleys, horse-drawn carriages, etc, even an early steam or electric car monitored by what appears to be a police officer; busy intersection, here, four or more streets converging).
Lower Manhattan shoreline from Hudson River
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Audio:
493178_1_1
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1903
B/W
"Skyscrapers of New York City, from the North River"
Shot from a moving boat, the film depicts the Hudson River (i.e., "North River") shoreline and the piers of lower Manhattan starts around Fulton Street and extends to Castle Garden Battery Park. It begins at one of the American Line piers (Pier 14 or 15, opposite Fulton Street) where an American Line steamer is docked, then on past various docks; can also see buildings of Lower Manhattan in BG, incl. the double towers of the Park Row, or Syndicate Building, the Surety Building & just to its right Trinity Church ( as a tug with a "C" on the stack passes in FG.) Pass several small steamboats docked , and the B.T. Babbitt Soap factory, then the Pennsylvania Railroad piers and the Lehigh Valley Railroad piers, both with docked railroad car floats. The Whitehall Building (vertical, thin side to camera), followed by Pennsylvania Railroad Pier #1., then the United Fruit Company at New Pier 1. Pier A (with a clock tower); we pass very near to end of pier where there is a New York Harbor Police steam boat "Patrol" at its end. The New York City Fireboat House, then Castle Garden (the distinctive round structure). The camera then pans east along the Battery Park promenade: the Barge Office (with tower) is visible in the distance, and further out the Brooklyn shoreline with the grain elevators at Atlantic Avenue can be seen.
Pushcart Vendors Told to Move On
Clip#:
Audio:
493267_1_1
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1903
B/W
"Move On."
Nice 'slice of life' look at pushcart vendors on New York's Lower East Side, 1903. Film is of a street where several Jewish and Italian pushcart vendors have gathered to sell their goods; in FG fruit and vegetable carts; part of El track in BG. There's a lot of other activity as well - - pedestrians on the sidewalk walking past many small shops, and crossing the street, horse-drawn carts, a young guy tossing some small object up and catching it. 2 Policemen come up the street and order all of the vendors to move. One cop approaches twirling his nightstick, and the cart in the foreground begins moving. The film ends with CU of cop scolding the vendor, shaking his fist. (That last part seems sorta exaggerated - - like it might have been a bit of acting for the camera.)
Panorama of Flatiron Building in NY
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Audio:
493286_1_1
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1902
B/W
Panorama of Flatiron Building in NY
Panorama of the famous early skyscraper, the Fuller Building (AKA Flatiron Building), designed by D.H. Burnham and Company, filmed shortly after its completion in 1902. This shows a view looking across the intersection of Broadway, Fifth Avenue, and 23rd St.; nice busy street scene, with pedestrians, trolleys (street cars), horse-drawn carriages; Flatiron Building in near BG; slow tilt upward from street level scene along 21 stories to top of Flatiron building. The Flatiron is known as the first great steel-framed building, and is a New York City landmark.
Biography: Theodore Roosevelt
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Audio:
541534_1_5
Yes
Year Shot:
Video:
1900
B/W
New York Street scene, very early 1900s: pedestrians, trolleys (street car), traffic officer, hustle and bustle etc.
Traffic on Lower Broadway, 1902
Clip#:
Audio:
493263_1_1
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1902
B/W
"Lower Broadway."
Shot looking north on Broadway. Hoards of pedestrians, and a steady stream of traffic - horse-drawn vehicles and electric trams. A horse-drawn streetcar passes in front of the camera with a sign giving its destination as the "Courtland and Fulton Street Ferry."
Horse-Drawn Streetcars in NYC
Clip#:
Audio:
493262_1_1
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1901
B/W
"Broadway & Union Square, N.Y."
Short film at Broadway and 14th Street, New York, N.Y, 1901. two horse-drawn streetcars at Broadway one approaching the camera and the other heading away. Passengers can be seen boarding and getting off of the crowded cars.
Panorama Waterfront and Brooklyn Bridge
Clip#:
Audio:
493254_1_1
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1903
B/W
"Panorama Waterfront and Brooklyn Bridge from East River."
Film of East River shoreline and the piers of lower Manhattan shot from a boat starting at about Pier 5 (the New York Central Pier) and going up to just south of the Brooklyn Bridge. The film begins at Pier 5, barges docked at and around Coenties Slip . We go past piers w/ various ships and boats incl. steam tugs, a wooden hull barkentine with box barges alongside, a docked iron hull sailing ship, an ocean steamer, a derrick lighter with stacked barrels docked at the end of a pier in FG, etc. In the Wall Street Ferry slip (between Piers 15 and 16) is a double-ended steam commuter boat (the ferry is just to left of row of billboards (illegible) on Pier 16. On front of Piers 16 & 17 "NY & Cuba Mail SS Co." and there is a steamship and quite a few other boats around them. The Mallory Line piers, with one of their steamers on the south side of one of the Mallory Piers. The camera begins panning to rt. out over the East River ; can see the fog bell at the end of pier 21 and pans along Brooklyn Bridge (built late 1880s)
Pedestrians on a Windy Day in NYC, 1903
Clip#:
Audio:
493271_1_1
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1903
B/W
Pedestrians on a Windy Day in NYC,
Filmed on a VERY windy day on the sidewalk outside the Flatiron, or Fuller Building at B'way & 23rd, where a constant stream of pedestrians pass by in various directions clutching hats and skirts against the wind. This narrow triangular corner of he building houses a shop with large windows on both sides. There is a large shop window displaying ---? An African-American man turns to look at camera as he walks past and his hat blows completely off! He chases it offscreen. More people walking by struggling with the wind; one is a policeman A woman stops next to the bldg trying to look at a paper.
NOTE: An interesting etymological theory: According to some New York City historians, this corner was known as the windiest corner of the city, and standing on it was considered a good vantage point for a glimpse of a lady's ankle when her long skirt blew . Policemen would chase away such loungers from the 23rd Street corner, giving rise to the expression "twenty-three skidoo."
Bargain Day Crowd at 5 & 10 Cent Store
Clip#:
Audio:
493264_1_1
No
Year Shot:
Video:
1905
B/W
Bargain Day Crowd at 5 & 10 Cent Store
Bargain hunters pushing their way into a sale - -hundreds of tightly packed people crowding into the front door of the Rothschild Co. 5 and 10 cent store in New York City, 1905. They are so closely packed it is difficult to tell one from another - -just one amorphous mass of shoppers. The view is from across the street, looking down from the 2nd floor.