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1921 - USA, Educational Film: New York City

Reel Number: 220452-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1921

Country: USA

Location: CENTRAL PARK,Lower East Side,New York City,NYC

TC Begins: 22:03:34

TC Ends: 22:13:11

Duration: 00:09:37

1921 - USA, Educational Film: New York CityTitles. 22:03:52 Animated map of NYC & surrounding area, Manhattan, New Jersey, Bronx, Brooklyn. 22:04:20 POV LS & MS from water of Statue of Liberty. NY waterfront. View to Manhattan of barge & tugs passing under Brooklyn Bridge; pan across Brooklyn Bridge w/ light traffic to Manhattan, 22:05:31 View across Manhattan Bridge from tower showing traffic on cantilevered roadways; LS from angle w/ river traffic. 22;05:55 Intertitle. Couples on top of Woolworth Building; pan skyscrapers of financial district. High Angle / HA of Wall Street w/ American flags, pan up buildings & tilt up Trinity Church & Woolworth Building. Other ornate tops / spires of skyscrapers. 22:07:05 Intertitle. Dirigible over buildings. Lower Broadway w/ pedestrians & traffic, tilt up from street. 22:07:36 Intertitle. City Hall; Municipal Building; Eighth Avenue Post Office, pan to avenue traffic; Flat-iron building. 22:08:48 Intertitle. HA Fifth Avenue, down onto many cars, buses, pedestrians. One horse-drawn carriage. 22:09:08 Intertitle. Public Library, Fifth Avenue traffic. 22:09:30 Intertitle. Central Park lake w/ people on small boats; bridge; people sitting on grass & walking about. Obelisk. GOOD SHOTS. 22:10:59 Intertitle. Riverside Drive w/ traffic, pedestrians & Hudson River, various views. 22:11:38 Intertitle. Grant’s Tomb aka monument & tomb of General Ulysses Grant. 22:12:05 Intertitle. Crowded Lower East Side & busy street. Ghetto, women buying at vendors’ pushcarts & mobile stall, CU people walk past camera in front of stall w/ apples, women in shawls. 22:12:44 Intertitle. Military parade on Fifth Avenue & people carrying huge US flag. 22:13:03 The End. 1910s; 1920s; Street scenes; New York City Daily Life; Immigrants; Urban Life; NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rate

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