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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221428-04
Color: Colour
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1968,1960s
Country: USA
Location: New York City,NYC
TC Begins: 06:40:00
TC Ends: 06:53:11
Duration: 00:13:11
New York: The Giant Metropolis (Japanese titles) Pt. 2 of 2 Large residential houses w/ tv antennas. CU number 5050 on pole. Kids on sidewalk in shade & sun. POV past established houses, tree-shaded yards w/ plantings & driveways. MS of various types of homes. 06:41:04 Map w/ Huntington, Long Island (Japanese). Home ext., station wagon backing out of garage as family watches, family waves goodbye & blows kisses. POV past suburban houses; CU sign: Huntington; car into large railroad parking lot & wife drops off husband; other cars park. Man runs to Long Island Railroad train. Overhead of traffic on Long Island Expressway (?) & POV across 59th St. Bridge; along parkway & Westside Highway. Overhead of office building & streets. Pedestrians, taxiis, stop lights, street crossing; CU no parking signs. Parking lot Sorry Full sign. Rates. 06:44:20 CU parking meter & cars parked along sidewalk. Overhead of subway trains on elevated rails past warehouses & factories. 50th Street subway platform w/ F train past. Int. of filled car, women sitting & standing. Men standing. People off train & out of station. Crowded sidewalks. 06:45:46 Narrow Lower Manhattan street. Int. offices, women at desks; moving past men & women w/ typewriters, CU secretary typing, keyboard; signing forms. Clerks. White collar employees. 06:46:32 Suspension bridge & pullback to tenement lined street, broken windows in slum buildings & vacant lots. Boarded up windows; partially burned. Demolition & construction workers. Camera thru partially renovated building w/ wires hanging from studs. 06:47:36 Ext. of walk-up tenements & fire escapes. Pan across to newer building; kids on sidewalk. Boy climbing up fire escape ladder. Large lot of demolished buildings. New block of apartments spaced around trees & open space. CU windows & bricks. Black kids playing basketball on paved court. 06:49:00 Manhattan map. Housing, int. w/ bright curtains of small kitchen, office, couch & desk. Ext. of building & Black construction workers remodeling. Bathtubs unloaded from truck; street from new apartment & interior w/ only kitchen appliances in place. Walk thru. Exteriors. 06:50:52 Aerial past large apartment complex (Stuyvesant Town (?)) & over tenement roofs. 06:51:26 Large building construction w/ girders; other finished skyscrapers. Wrecking ball knocking masonry building intercut w/ construction. 06:52:31 NYC map (no Japanese) w/ major avenues & location of World Trade Center. Model. Drawing of Manhattan w/ completed Trade Center from lower tip. Aerial over river & docks. 06:53:06 United States map w/ Japanese titles (and communities?). 1960s; Tourism; Neighborhoods; New York City; Promotional Films; Poverty; Housing; Living; Americana;