Timelapse of people placing steel trusses on a roof.

The Closing Ceremony for Construction workers Workers hanging wreath over American Flag Workers march in from West Street, lead by a pipe band Workers march down ramp where the last I beam is located Workers in a crane went to the top of the beam and removed the flag while workers below chanted USA, USA Crane raises the beam to be put onto a truck Beam is covered with an American flag Taps is played on a bugle then a pipe band plays Amazing Grace Workers march out of hole and up the ramp where they are met by Mayor Bloomberg and members of the US Navy Workers are met with cheers from on lookers as the walk up ramp

House construction work underway in the United States. Houses under construction. Construction workers take measurements on the roof. A man pushes a wheel barrow full of bricks. A worker saws wood. Beams of a house roof under construction. A worker with papers. Houses under construction. Location: United States USA. Date: 1958.

TOPPING OUT OF THE IDS CENTER TOWER.

Construction workers on uncompleted tower on top of Bank of Manhattan building in NY City

A member of a construction crew walks across a beam on a structure in progress.

00:00:00:00 [Tons of wood beams supporting still wet concrete forms on Centry fwy transition road collapsed onto Imperial Hwy, blocking all 6 lanes of traffic]--workers remove beams, California H ...

Germany? <br/> <br/>Story about construction workers who wander precariously up and down narrow beams and planks. Camera at ground lever tilts up to the top of a large building. M/S of two men working very high up sitting astride an iron girder on a pulley system. Various shots of men standing on precarious girders, working in vertiginous circumstances, balancing on narrow iron walkways etc. The men have a drink - although the intertitle states that they are drinking tea, it looks more like beer! Short segment - probably incomplete. <br/> <br/>Was an item in Pathe Pictorial issue number 663.

Construction worker frames house single handed

New York World's Fair - 1964 - construction - traffic in front of a building - Ford Motor Company Pavilion - construction site - equipment - workers - man up in the air on a metal beam - worker - hard hat - crane lifts beam - Unisphere being built - Florida lifted into place - globe - machinery operator

MONTAGE BECHTEL PROJECTS: LS PIPELINE BEING LAID IN MOUNTAINS. MODERN INDUSTRIAL PLANT. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS HIGH UP ON BEAMS URBAN CONSTRUCTION. CIVIL ENGINEERS SURVEYING ON TRAIN TRACKS. LOW ANGLE BRIDGE. DEFENSE INSTALLATION ON REMOTE MOUNTAIN INTERIOR TUNNEL UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Several telephoto shots of construction site, steel skeleton of skyscraper, New York skyline in background. Closer telephoto shots of buildings under construction, high steel men walking on beams, crane hoisting beams up from deck. Shot of Kanien'kéhaka (Mohawk) worker climbing on beam; of worker standing on a cable. Telephoto HALSs of building at 59 Maiden Lane in Manhattan's Financial District under construction from various gradually closer distances.

[Empire State Building Construction] R1 of 3

COVERAGE IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA FOR A BOB JAMIESON CS VO ABOUT THE FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD RAISING INTEREST RATES. 15:43:20 NATURAL SOUND EXT FTG. WS NEW SPLIT LEVEL CREAM COLOR SUBURBAN HOME W/ WHITE TRIM AND A TWO CAR GARAGE. 15:43:47 PULL OUT ON ROW OF RECENTLY BUILT TWO STORY SPLIT LEVEL HOMES. 15:44:39 WS COLONIAL STYLE SPLIT LEVEL HOME W/ TALL LEAFY TREES IN BG. 15:45:07 FTG OF SHIRTLESS CONSTRUCTION WORKERS TOILING AWAY ON NEW HOME'S ROOF UNDER HOT SUN. 15:45:29 PULL OUT TO WS CONSTRUCTION WORKERS HAMMERING ROOF. 15:46:26 CU WEATHERED FOR SALE SIGN. 15:46:43 PULL OUT TO WS FOR SALE SIGN IN FRONT OF RECENTLY BUILT HOUSE W/ DIRT COVERED FRONT YARD BEFORE PLANTING OF LAWN. 15:47:26 WS QUIET STREET W/ ROW OF NEW HOMES. 15:48:05 FTG OF CONSTRUCTION SITE WHERE NEW HOME IS IN PROCESS OF BEING BUILT. 15:48:42 MS MOVER CARRYING APPLIANCE FROM VAN INTO NEW HOME STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION. 15:49:12 CU FTG OF SHIRTLESS CONSTRUCTION WORKERS NAILING TAR PAPER ONTO ROOF. 15:50:27 WS CONSTRUCTION WORKERS HAMMERING ROOF OF NEW HOME MIDWAY UNDER CONSTRUCTION. 15:50:56 CU CONSTRUCTION WORKER'S BARE LEGS BALANCING ON WOODEN BEAMS. 15:51:14 WS CONSTRUCTION WORKERS WORKING ON FOUNDATION OF NEW HOME IN EARLY STAGE OF CONSTRUCTION. 15:51:36 MS CONSTRUCTION WORKER IN CUTOFF JEANS HAMMERING BEAM. 15:53:14 CU POUNDING OF NAIL INTO BEAM. 15:54:19 ZOOM IN ON CONSTRUCTION WORKER STRADDLING BEAM. 15:54:43 CU WORKER HAMMERING WOODEN BLOCK. 15:56:31 MS WORKER CARRYING HEAVY PLYWOOD BOARDS. 15:56:47 PULL OUT TO WS WORKERS ASSEMBLING SKELETON OF SPLIT LEVEL HOUSE. 15:58:36 CU SWEATING WORKER HAMMERING BEAMS. 15:59:16 BLANK TO END.

Vintage footage-pit crew gets cars ready to go back on race track/men do skyscraper construction on Empire State building in New York, cranes lift beams, workers put up American flag, workers clean rubble from burnt building, old subway excavation and street construction, workers eat lunch/contemporary footage-construction workers on scaffolds and with heavy machinery

This 1959 sponsored documentary directed by Shirley Clarke uses experimental montage techniques to dramatize the construction of the 666 Fifth Avenue Skyscraper in Manhattan, New York City (TRT: 21:11). Clarke was a member of the Independent Filmmakers of America and was part of a circle of independent filmmakers in Greenwich Village such as Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas, and Lionel Rogosin.<p><p>Opening titles: “Brandon Films Presents.” The Bellringers Monument in Herald Square (0:09). Musical montage: Towering skyscrapers of steel and glass reflect passing clouds (0:25). Air conditioning units. Wrought iron fire escapes and ornate filigree (0:55). A horse-drawn carriage. A brick wall is demolished. A sign: “Dig we must - for growing New York.” Scenes of construction and buildings marked for demolition (1:06). Signs on buildings for sale and lease. Title “Skyscraper” and opening credits as wheatpaste boards (1:39). POV a man in silhouette operating a rotating excavator. A foreman and a construction crew. Aluminum workers “in Louisville” (2:13). Women metalworkers building windows. Men smoking (2:54). Men in suits in office environments. An architect reviews a proposal with a client (3:12). A modelmaker sculpts foam blocks. Draftsmen work with guides at drafting tables. Rolls of blueprints on a shelf (3:38). Closeup on office furniture. A hand reaches in and grabs a chair, revealing the scale of the miniature mockup. More hands sample textured tiles. Surveyors photographs (4:00). An excavation site. A sign: “666” and a steam shovel scooping chunks of stone and concrete into a truck: “Manhattan Water Works” (4:20). Dynamiting using wires and a blasting machine. Curious onlookers. A truck: “Palazzolo Bros.” drives past parking lots and into a tunnel for New Jersey (5:31). Workers toil, a foreman shrugs. Pouring concrete. Walls taking shape (6:32). A bird in flight against the Brooklyn Bridge. Steamships at harbor. Steel beams are loaded onto a “Bigley Bros.” trailer truck, which passes the Roxy Theatre (7:04). Steel beams hoisted upright. Men in hardhats shouting, smoking (7:55). A worker bolts a girder into place (8:25). A Santa Claus for Volunteers of America. 5th Ave. below (8:37). Workers stand on a platform, 30 stories in the air. A man sits atop a beam. The Chrysler Building (9:15). Dizzying shots of bolts being applied, tiny human shapes below (10:05). St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Floors stack up. A temporary elevator pours concrete (11:03). Workers in silhouette (12:00). Aluminum panels for exterior walls and windows are added (12:31). A bricklayer at work. Another worker reclines at rest, balancing across a girder while smoking (13:29). St. Patrick’s reappears. A top-down view of passing traffic. Lunch break: Bananas and cherry soda (14:01). Street-level onlookers watch an air-conditioner installation (14:21). Looking up an elevator shaft as the lift shoots boxes of furniture furniture skyward. Floorplans. Welding A/C ducts. Installing ceiling panels (15:16). A mason smooths mortar with a trowel. Montage: Plaster, paint, tile, electrical wiring, steam valves, A/C fans, elevator buttons, switchboards, a hoist, an elevator shaft (16:18). Reporters with film cameras and a marching band. Stouffer’s Restaurant and Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. (17:29). The film jump-cuts to color on the United States flag. The completed skyscraper. Office furnishings appear in stop-motion (18:03). A checker special taxi cab of the “Ramtol Service Corp.” A crowded elevator. A switchboard operator’s hands. Pouring coffee. Telephones. Bustling urban crowds. Sunsets and night skylines (18:54). End titles: “Produced with the technical facilities of the Tishman Realty and Construction Co., Inc.” (20:53). “Termini Film Editorial Service, Inc.” (21:04). <p><p>The film was produced by Joseph Burstyn Film Enterprises Inc. and was co-sponsored by Reynolds Metals, Bethlehem Steel, Westinghouse Elevator Co., and York Air Conditioning. <p>Clarke received limited directorial assistance from Willard Van Dyke (The City) and Irving Jacoby, while Wheaton Galentine and D.A. Pennebaker (Don’t Look Back, Monterey Pop) are also credited. The film was nominated for a 1959 Academy Award in the Best Short Live Action category, and won at the Venice Film Festival. The soundtrack was provided by legendary jazz music producer Teo Macer. The vocals were sung by Gene Mumford of The Larks. The 41-story office building was designed by Carson & Lundin. It is currently leased by Brookfield Properties.<p><p>This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com

Empire State Building under construction in New York City. Animated arrow shows 72nd floor reached by September 3, 1930. Beam is lifted vertically. It halts beside grillage. A worker climbs on the beam from grillage. It is shifted to 72nd floor. Workers place beam over column of skyscraper. Location: New York City USA. Date: September 3, 1930.

Construction of the John Hancock Building. A film made in 1947 about the construction of the 36 story John Hancock building at 200 Berkeley St in Boston. It is also known as The Berkeley Building and the weather beacon on the top is a Boston landmark.. 1940s, Boston, Massachusetts, John Hancock Building, Berkeley Street Building, skyscraper being built, construction, construction site, architecture, construction workers at work, construction worker sitting and eating sandwich, construction workers on lunch break sitting on edge of building, cornerstone laying ceremony, crowds of onlookers, John Hancock Insurance, company officials walking through crowd onto stage, Head of John Hancock Insurance speaking to crowd from podium and laying cornerstone, crane lifting beam, construction worker hammering beams together, cityscape with John Hancock building along Charles River, steel workers at work on top of building, construction workers spreading concrete, construction workers at work, John Hancock flag flying on top of building, staircase, unenclosed floors, workers huddled around portable stove on unenclosed floor, crane lifting windows into building, workers installing window, workers fireproofing building, worker pulling level, worker plastering ceiling, smoke coming out of building, pedestrians and traffic on street outside John Hancock Building, Christmas lights strung around building, John Hancock Building stonework completed to roof, weather beacon being erected, secretaries working at desks and typing on typewriters, empty desks, man writing identification numbers on desks, man's hands pointing to blueprint, men talking over blueprints, movers moving file cabinet and office furniture, completed John Hancock Building facade, moving truck backing into building loading dock, people walking in lobby, paintings on wall, people looking at roped off room of John Hancock belongings, secretaries working at desks, people waiting in line and eating in cafeteria, people going up and down escalators, people seated in lounge, people looking at viewpoint from observation tower, picture of John Hancock Building

10:30:08:14 VS of road, cars parked on the side of the road (1:15) / 10:31:38:16 WS of construction site / WS of crane on construction site, building a structure over water / VS of unid man working on ...

Selected originals (offcuts, selected scenes, out-takes, rushes) for story "Victoria Line Opened" - 68/72. <br/> <br/>M/S man drilling, M/S rubble falling away, pan along men working on the new tracks. M/S following big machine. M/S big crane outside. M/S plan of the line, someone points with pen. M/S from below as train speeds past, pan down to supports underneath. Various shots men welding and constructing the line. M/S as train goes through tunnel. M/S man propping up canister on line next to it. M/S train passing. Various shots as men work on the line. Good construction shots. M/S foreman looking at his watch. <br/> <br/>Various shots as pieces of the line are swung into place. Exterior shots line being constructed. The rubble is hauled up in big net. M/S people walking past part of line covered and still under construction. M/S entrance to tunnel. Exterior shots of construction, pan along beams etc. M/S interior of ticket hall. C/U sign 'Careful please temporary floor surface.' M/S people's legs and feet walking over the surface. M/S people walking along the tunnels onto the platform, pan across to line under construction. M/S cars and buses driving by outside. M/S workers travelling down on train. Various shots lots of workers in tunnel sawing and hammering etc. M/S train coming through tunnel. M/S workers wheeling stone on trolleys. M/S drilling away stone. Various shots of the tunnels under construction. M/S long train travelling along outside. Various shots as the tracks are laid from it. M/S men standing on the tracks as they move. Various shots of the tracks and tunnels under construction.

b&w newsreel - Chicago iron workers construct Lindbergh beacon, ironworker walks on girder with no safety harness, view down to street, construction worker at end of beam - skyscraper

The signatures of iron workers and financial supporters on the last steel beam to be put into place at the construction site of the new Crystal building at the Royal Ontario Museum. The architect Daniel Libeskind signs the beam. The beam is moved into place. A model of what the finished building will look like.