1938 - USA, Daily Life: City, The R2 (1949 Spanish version)

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Montage: 1930s. People down stairs from elevated subway; man throws newspaper, next man picks it up. Kids playing in street, gather garbage, boys on back of street car, girl plays in gutter. 11:00:24 Montage: People attempting to cross busy New York City street scenes; traffic jams, CU taxi meters running; LS & CUs policemen directing traffic; traffic signs; traffic accident; people looking; Ambulance, loaded; pedestrians. 11:03:05 Montage: Traffic of commuters cars commuting from New Jersey or on weekend excursions. Roadside stand signs. Flat tire; People sitting in traffic jams; traffic lights & cars moving again; CUs. Traffic jam, people eating in car & beside road picnic. Manhattan from New Jersey GOOD 11:04:34 Aerial over forest to new suburban development (Greenbelt, Maryland (?); or Greendale, Wisconsin (?)). Closer views of partially developed & under construction w/ cul-de-sacs, roads. 11:05:02 Large glass (?) factory ext.; people leaving suburban Squibb pharmaceutical plant w/ glass block windows, other plants; kid roller-skating on wide sidewalk; other sidewalks thru green areas between multi-unit apartment buildings. Kids running out of new modern school, playing football on green, walking thru underpass under parkway / street; playing on terrace; boys riding bicycles under road; sandlot baseball; boy w/ ball playing in pond,kids on slides in playground as mothers watch, teeter totter & swings. 11:06:39 Boy pumping bicycle tower, man reading newspaper on grass, mother washing baby in tub & weighing. 11:07:06 Ext. school (?); int. cooperative washing machines, women playing cards, boys making kite, grocery store & shopping, boys w/ delivery wagons. 11:07:47 Large public buildings including Greenhills Community Building. Women doing sketching on lawn; children out of classroom sliding doors & doing art projects. 11:08:47 Intercut of old & new communities. Washing hanging from clothes lines of wooden houses; women relaxing on lawn of planned community. Ext. of contrasting housing; kids playing. 11:09:49 Aerial over forest & new community. Frustration; Poverty; Americana Daily LIfe; Suburbs; City; Industrial Life; Pre-WWII; Pre-WW2; Working Class; Middle Class; 1938; Health Hazards; Pollution; Ecology; Ecological Degradation; Fresh Air; Utopia; Future; City Planning; Urban Planning; NOTE: Greenhills, Ohio, Greenbelt, Maryland & Greendale, Wisconsin were the three “Greenbelt Communities” federally built during 1930s. Radburn, NJ was also developed as a planned green community, later part of Fair Lawn and may have been included in footage shot for The City. NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rate. Very good quality. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk