Summary

NEW YORK - PART ONE

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: NEW YORK - PART ONE
File Number: ACL-3023 Digibeta; Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Compilation
Description: 3023-1 01:00:00:00 -- 01:15:06:18 1890s to 1900s B W Silent CLASSIC NEW YORK - Subway System SUBWAY SYSTEM (paper prints) Excellent street scenes of New York City, traffic, pedestrians, street life etc, with caption cards Edison Biograph films Broadway at Fulton Street, Manhattan, 1890s Cable cars on streets Streetcar crosses Broadway Horse & carriage carries full load of crates Lower Broadway 1903 - Cable cars, horsedrawn carriages, pedestrians & other traffic Union Square 1904- (Broadway streetcars of the old Metropolitan Street Railway Company) An apparent rush hour shot with men crowded in streetcar women exit the streetcar Buses, trolleys Streetcar on 23rd Street line passes Flatiron Building Madison Square- trolleys, horse & buggies in warm weather & snowy Winter People walking around trolley tracks w shovels Edison footage From 1899: POV streetcar crossing the Brooklyn Bridge, pulling out of Sands Street train shed in Brooklyn, past early advertising billboards and across the bridge, passing trolleys POV into Park Row train shed Return trip from Manhattan to Brooklyn 9th Avenue El train line (steam) at West 53rd Street, joined by the 6th Avenue El POV El train on track with another passing Heading north on the express track of the 9th Avenue El in vicinity of 110th Street (the stretch known as Suicide Curve) Three tracks merging into two at the 116th Street Station on Columbus Avenue HA Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT) subway excavation site during construction off Broadway Rock drill in operation Subway dedication, October 27, 1904, in front of City Hall with flags, crowds of people Mayor George McClellan & others News cameramen holds boxy Graflex camera on head filming ceremony Group of uniformed, helmeted New York City policemen clear path for spectators Women & men entering subway (looks like Bleecker Street station) From 14th Street to 42nd Street via the Subway - subway car POV traveling through tunnel Train lit by flatbed car traveling beside it Subway arrives at Grand Central Station Male & female passengers get on, off Elegant men wearing derbies and top hats, and women and children in early 20th century dresses VTM (8102) 3023-2 01:15:06:19 -- 01:16:11:12 1890s - 1900s B W w Sound CLASSIC NEW YORK - Turn of the Century 'New York at the Turn of the Century' Antique newsreel caption VO male host WS Herald Square Men and women in formal 'Sunday Best' attend Easter Sunday church services at St Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Ave Plaza at 59th St 5th Ave Horsedrawn carriage moves past Riverside Drive brownstones- Exclusive and expensive Horsedrawn carriage on Fulton Street in downtown Brooklyn Prospect Park, Brooklyn in Winter Horse-driven sleighs, people trudging in snow -(Christmas according to VO) VTM (8102) 3023-3 01:16:11:13 -- 01:26:58:07 1903 to 1905 B W Silent CLASSIC NEW YORK - 1903 to 1905 Edison Biograph films of New York City Panoramic Impressions of Old New York East River w captions WS men work shoveling garbage on refuse barges as horse wagons dump more PAN over barges w piles of refuse PAN over barges on move towards dumping area near Rikers Island (became landfill for Laguardia Airport, notes caption) PAN over piers etc, from East River Piles of cut lumber on barge PAN Times Square from just-built New York Times Building- 1905 HA Hippodrome Theater, area near to 6th Ave 43rd St PAN to Times Square (looks bare) Boat POV West Side midtown piers on Hudson River- Pennsylvania RR, other commercial piers including postal service to Cuba and Mexico Sailing ships, steam vessels Caption: East River scenes Sailing vessels replaced by smoke-belching monsters (coal and steamboats) Cranes at work on Brooklyn Bridge shot from East River High PAN Brooklyn Bridge and surrounding area Caption about bridge opening ceremony in 1883 (12 people trampled to death, disappointment at design) Excellent TS from water of Blackwell's Island and penitentiary (now Roosevelt Island) Caption describes closing of prison, conversion to city social services 'Welfare Island' VTM (8102) 3023-4 01:26:58:08 -- 01:28:34:23 1900s - 1910s B W w Sound CLASSIC NEW YORK - 1900s to 1915 Caption Old New York VO male narrator Various New York scenes pre-1915, Times Square intersection Traffic policeman waves Broadway cable car Pedestrians & traffic on street Riverside Drive, Manhattan West Side brownstones (ranges from wealthy mansions to near-slum walk-up flats,) Horsedrawn carriage travels down street Fulton Street, Brooklyn VO describes Brooklyn borough history, attractions (Ebbet's Field, film studios) Horsedrawn paddy wagon Prospect Park, Brooklyn- Horse-driven sleighs, people in snow - Winter (Christmas according to VO)(Repeat of some previous footage but with captions and also different narration) VTM (8102) 3023-5 01:28:34:24 -- 01:32:22:14 1921 B W Silent CLASSIC NEW YORK - Turn of century to 1920s Partial, Paul Strand's Manhatta film poem to New York City Caption: City of the world (for all races are here) City of tall facades of marble and iron New York Harbor- barge with freight train cars passing The Battery, Ferry Terminal, lower Manhattan, office buildings, Brooklyn Bridge Crowded passenger commuter ferry pulls into boat slip Trinity Church cemetery, office workers seated on benches & walking Huge office building columns and windows reflecting passing pedestrian traffic VS Skyscrapers: TD Woolworth Building- Broadway between Park Place & Barclay, construction workers with pickaxes VS cranes & derricks Construction workers high up on a skyscraper girder, moving equipment etc PAN up Trinity Building? HA nice rooftop POV of skyscrapers as viewed from architectural finials Steam rising from vents on rooftops New York harbor filled with ships - Governors Island visible in BG, cluster of boats and dock Pyramid-shaped building overlooking New York Harbor emits smoke and steam VTM (8102) 3023-6 01:32:22:15 -- 01:32:49:06 1921 B W Silent CLASSIC NEW YORK - Turn of century to 1920s Partial Manhatta Clip starts with caption- Where the city's ceaseless crowd moves on, the live long day Excellent extreme HA views of Financial District View through columns of people walking on street far below Streetcars, buses, pedestrians and traffic on street VTM (8102) 3023-7 01:32:49:07 -- 01:41:34:14 1921 B W Silent CLASSIC NEW YORK - 1920s Title New York City over illustration of Brooklyn Bridge Excellent early footage of Old New York landmarks Decoratively lettered captions Map showing New York City strategic shipping location New York City boroughs New York Harbor, Statue of Liberty VS New York City - harbor, buildings, Excellent view of Brooklyn Bridge with ships passing in harbor PAN to Manhattan WS Williamsburg Bridge from tower Tower of Woolworth Building Couple views tower from observation platform with telescope Financial District Good TU Wall Street seen between buildings with American flags looking toward Trinity Church Caption: Hemmed In On All Sides, The Buildings could not grow outward, so they grew skyward TU Crowds on Lower Broadway EXT: City Hall, Municipal Building VS Central Post Office on Eighth Ave Flatiron Building 5th Ave Broadway 23rd St HA 5th Avenue shopping, car traffic Double-decker buses carry passengers on top, horsedrawn carriage EXT: New York Public Library- 5th Ave 42nd St Caption: cost & size of building Central Park VS lake- formally dressed men and women walk on footbridge, paths TU Egyptian obelisk Traffic flows smoothly on Riverside Drive, along Hudson River VS Grant's Tomb, tourists entering tomb Lower East Side Caption: Americans of the future in the congested Lower East Side Women at street push cart vendors in 'the crowded ghetto' Good street scenes of immigrants Old women buying fruit from vendor stands Jewish children looking at CAM Old women in shawls walking HA Fourth of July parade on Broadway Military marchers carry American flag (patriotism) DN (8024) 3023-8 01:41:34:15 -- 01:44:21:13 1926 B W Silent CLASSIC NEW YORK - 1920s Caption The New York Way Called Broad VS Broadway in Manhattan Vertical panoramas EXT New York Stock Exchange Broad and Wall Streets Street vendors Crowds outside Treasury Building, George Washington statue at Federal Hall Street vendors TU Woolworth Building (gothic architecture) to tower WS Clouds passing in BG over tower Municipal Building WS Times Square in fast motion Arrow Collars, Chevrolet billboard signs Pedestrians, traffic in theater district Excellent WS Columbus Circle w statue, traffic, etc VTM (8102) 3023-9 01:44:21:14 -- 01:54:17:05 1930 B W w Sound CLASSIC NEW YORK - 1890s to Early 1930s Broadway by Day Excellent travelogue with many car POV's from northern tip of Broadway to the Battery with lots of great material, Bright instrumental music Caption: From verdant farm lands into Manhattanindescribable contrasts Car POV Rural, suburban land in Yonkers area CU sign for Bway W 262nd St You are now entering New York City Overgrown farm fields Farmers w two horses tilling field Used car dealership Car POV driving under El train tracks Train crosses bridge (Tappan Zee?) Traffic cop Double-decker bus, traffic Riverside Drive Children in swimming pool- Dummy advertises for Riverside-Cascades park Yorkville? Old man sleeps Policeman writes traffic ticket for driver CU sign for 125th Bway Jewish kosher delicatessens Train enters submerged tunnel from above ground Gated property HA train tracks running above traffic on road VS Columbus Circle Cable cars VS pedestrian street scenes Man wipes brow Horse drinks from city fountain Marquees for theater, burlesque shows Excellent crowded WS of street activity on Broadway by Times Square Great White Way People walk past theater marquees Chorus line performs on stage CU dancers' legs, hot dog vendors Fast-walking man bumps into another man on sidewalk, smiles Box office Daily New York City life montage Flag pole stander Two men sit on park bench Man on telephone, newspapers on printing press CU of Jiggs comic strip character Women walking on street Newsstands Window washer working in window LA roofers at work Sewer workers Old woman gets facial in beauty parlor salon Lingerie models, fat women shaking bellies on exercise machines Union Square W E 16th St Traffic cop waving & whistling Cable car passing Cat runs across street carrying kitten in its mouth Woman buys bouquet of flowers VS Flower, garment district Men advertising stores w sandwich boards, walking on stilts Man stands on top of steeple (Singer Building?) Automat HA street scenes Formally dressed men (politicians) enter gates of City Hall CU pigeons in city hall park People crowded outside of subway entrance Financial District Extreme HA Wall Street Good CU man reading stock ticker tape WS lower Manhattan skyscrapers including Woolworth Building WS Financiers meeting in board room CU slot machine Feet roller skating VS extreme HA streets between building shadows Bowling Green Policeman holds hand up, stop light flashes High angle view of Battery Park, Castle Clinton, New York Harbor IMS (8133) 3023-10 01:54:17:06 -- 01:57:58:10 1930s (early - anywhere from 1930 - 1934) B W w Sound CLASSIC NEW YORK - 1930s City Planning newsreel segment Nocturne - VS stylized New York City at night to jazz soundtrack- James P Johnson's jazz symphony Yamekraw Caption: produced with hypersensitized Panchromatic film VS New York City skyline, skyscrapers at night Dark, murky footage with glitches Financial District buildings, VS Woolworth Building at night, traffic w headlights crossing Brooklyn Bridge Moonlight Sonata Excellent- light glinting off water in New York Harbor w small Statue of Liberty in distance, tugboat passing VTM (8102) 01:57:58:11 -- END OF TAPE
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