Summary

NEW YORK - PART FIVE

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: NEW YORK - PART FIVE
File Number: ACL-3027 Digibeta; Beta SP
Color: B W, Color
Type: Compilation
Subjects: Aerials
Description: 3027-1 05:00:00:00 -- 05:26:43:25 1965 B W w Sound CLASSIC NEW YORK - THE BRONX Uptown: Portrait of the South Bronx. Excellent, moody documentary about the South Bronx with wonderful footage and some good narration VO, interviews (some racist) Gritty, urban, Latino, African-Americans, street life, tenements etc. HA Children on rooftops fly kites. Children play basketball game on court. Elevated train line. VO "gray wall" surrounding neighborhood which says "Here - nothing." Excellent train POV with Latin music, drums passing apartment buildings and tenements. Music pauses for good images of Children on fire escape, other gritty 'slum' scenes. Boy standing on roof. VO interviews with residents about quality of life deterioration- racism. Shoeshine workers. Latin signs for theaters, salons, clothing stores. Audio: salsa music. Spanish fruit vendors. Person buys plantains in paper bag. VO couple argue about current affairs. HA laundry hanging on clotheslines in building courtyard. Family- children in playground. Apartment living. Interviews with Black residents. VS Black communities. Storeowner- "town of grates" because every business must have grates against theft on front doors. Hispanic men play street stickball game on Wednesday afternoon. Puerto Rican men & women interviewed- male roles, machismo, gang mentality, "lack of respect." Latin Crowns gang members. Teenage boys fight playfully in alleys. VS Boy flying kite on roof. Children interviewed- talk about boy falling off roof. Latin nightclubs. "Fear...keeps this neighborhood off-limits." Streets after dark. Girl looks at shoes in store window. Good scenes Free Summer theater performance of poetry by Federico Garcia Lorca, Hispanic actors in costume drama. Older men play dominos. Sunday activities- religion, ballpark. Christian, spiritualist. Baseball game. Storm clouds- narrator makes metaphor for hope, fear in Bronx. DN (8024) 3027-2 05:26:43:26 -- 05:38:36:05 1960s Color w Sound CLASSIC NEW YORK - GREENWICH VILLAGE Greenwich Village Sunday Tour of New York City neighborhood culture, romanticized lifestyle. VO male narrator: "Greenwich Village is mostly a state of mind..." EXT Cafe Dante Italian cafe (MacDougal St.) Old men play checkers on park tables. "Some are poets, some prognosticators- but in the Village everybody is young inside." Mention of street poet Joe Gould. VS Sidewalk art sale of paintings. HA plaza in Washington Square Park. Sunday folk hootenanny. Guitarists, bongo & banjo players. Young "beatnik"- style men and women relax in park on Sunday afternoon. Audio: mellow flute music. Pet monkey chews on rubber band. Men smoke cigarettes, talk in park. Artist paints woman's portrait. Judson church. Woman rides trolley, walks around. Village street scenes- Eighth Street storefronts. Courtyards, plazas, gas lights. Italian men play bocce ball in courtyard. Bleecker Street. Circle In the Square repertory theater. Jazz clubs, poetry cafes. Sign for reading by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Used book stores. Statues, gardens. Brass marching band. VS San Gennaro Festival in Little Italy. Food vendors. Black poet giving reading in bohemian cafe. PA (8076) 3027-3 05:38:36:06 -- 05:49:05:25 1969 Color w Sound CLASSIC NEW YORK - GREENWICH VILLAGE RFD Greenwich Village Funny promotional film of 'Greenwich Village' lifestyle (fashion) sponsored by Cotton Growers' Association. "Suburban living on an urban landscape." VO male narrator: Contrast between midtown Manhattan workers and laid-back 'groovy' hippie-era Greenwich Village living 'the country life.' VS Midtown Manhattan skyscrapers, Empire State Building. Young fashionable woman waters flowers, walks around Greenwich Village, Washington Square Park, Judson Church. Middle class couple in paisley fashions have backyard BBQ, cooking burgers on grill- Lifestyle "Much like the one they left in their old hometown." VS Scooters, bicycles. Young mod couple ride bicycles, wearing scarves, hats. Everyday activities- laundry, antique & book shopping. VS Bleecker Street food market. Young woman weighs food on scale, buys flower pot etc. Imported Italian foodstuffs, bakery. Young mod man joins her at sidewalk cafe. VO: Man wears "cotton corduroy- the fabric for the Now generation." Man and woman try on new mod-stylish fashions in clothing stores. VS Village nightlife. The Night Owl, etc. Actors in play on stage. Circle In The Square, Waverly Inn theaters. Couple attend swinging party with folk music, dogs. Couple throws ball in Washington Square Park. Playground, reading book, playing chess. Washington Arch. Washington Square North row houses. Audio: harpsichord music. Young woman models 'young romantic look' 19th-century inspired dresses. Historic brownstones, garrets. VS docks, waterfront. VO famous artists who lived in Village. Isaacs-Hendricks House. Sidewalk tables at restaurant. PA (8076) 3027-4 05:49:05:26 -- 05:51:52:25 1970s Color w Sound CLASSIC NEW YORK Circle Line boat POV on Harlem River moving uptown toward Bronx. VO bored-sounding female tour guide narrator. George Washington High School, painted blue 'C' on wall for Columbia U. Hudson River Palisades. Cloisters, George Washington Bridge & Little Red Lighthouse, apartment buildings, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. Grant's Tomb, Soldiers & Sailors Monument, Riverside Dr. Marinas. VO "Ladies & gentlemen, the circle is complete." VTM (8102) 3027-5 05:51:52:26 -- 05:54:32:02 1976 Color w Sound CLASSIC NEW YORK - AIRPORTS Gateway America. Very 1970s airline promotional film. Audio: disco-style instrumental music. Statue of Liberty silhouette at sunset. LA boat POV Twin Towers. Brooklyn Bridge, Empire State Building. New York Public Library lion, St. Patrick's Cathedral. INT: JFK International airport. 'Futuristic' modern walkways. Families reuniting- planes & helicopters landing. VS terminal, international passengers. EXT Pan Am airline terminal. INT. plane cabin. Passengers on flight. VS Air traffic controllers working in Kennedy tower, VO talking on radio. Instrument panels. Stewardess serves meals. AV: plane approaching lower Manhattan. Pilots in cockpit. CU passenger buckling seatbelt etc. Plane lands on runway. IMS (8133) 3027-6 05:54:32:03 -- 05:55:32:21 1976 Color w Sound CLASSIC NEW YORK New York City from American Montage. VO male narrator. 'Night Magic' Times Square nightlife, Statue of Liberty. New York City capital of arts, culture, finance and "shopper's paradise." Times Square, Broadway theaters, nightclubs at night. Park Avenue. Pedestrians at crosswalk. Rockefeller Center. Hansom cabs, taxicabs by Central Park, Park & Madison Ave stores, pedestrians, buses, taxicab traffic. Guggenheim, Metropolitan, MOMA, Natural History Museum. Businessman in suit ice skates at Wollman Rink, Rockefeller Center. Atlas sculpture. DN (8024) 3027-7 05:55:32:22 -- 05:56:14:12 1979 (ca) Color w Sound CLASSIC NEW YORK Reflections on New Jersey. CU Statue of Liberty. VO male narrator: 'The Statue of Liberty is mine- for I claim everything available to me within the state of New Jersey. New York cannot claim this Liberty.' Couple looks at Manhattan skyline from Liberty State Park. VS Tourists on ferry approaching Liberty Island, taking pictures. VO says most residents of New Jersey are happy to be there. PA (8076) 3027-8 05:56:14:13 -- 05:57:10:19 1983 Color w Sound CLASSIC NEW YORK Small business film- TU downtown New York City skyline from Staten Island ferry POV. Good pedestrians, street scenes, street musicians, etc. VO: male narrator talks inspirationally about American Dream, immigration, capitalism. Workers, small businesses, entrepreneurs. CF Martin & Co Inc acoustic guitar manufacturing. Guitar makers holding acoustic guitars. Man puts up plastic American flag for store grand opening. DN (8024) 3027-9 05:57:10:20 -- 05:58:56:18 1990 Color w Sound CLASSIC NEW YORK Audio: South American traditional acoustic pipe music. VS New York landmarks, street scenes. (probably 1988) WS AV POV New York Harbor, downtown Manhattan, bridges. Fifth Avenue Street sign (5th Ave), Statue of Liberty. George Washington Bridge. Car POV Upper West Side? ZO Brooklyn Bridge, Twin Towers in BG. Pedestrians in Times Square. Theater, movie marquees. Car POV traffic, taxicabs. LA Car POV passing midtown office buildings. LA Twin Towers. People sitting in Central Park. AV of Jersey City docks, midtown piers on Hudson w New York City skyline in BG. EXT Carnegie Hall poster case, The Bottom Line club canopy- Bleecker St., ZO Manhattan skyline visible from water. GLD (8039) 05:58:56:19 -- END OF TAPE
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