Picturing a metropolis : New York City unveiled / Anthology Film Archives in association with British Film Institute, Cineric, Inc., Deutsches Filmmuseum, Film Preservation Associates, George Eastman House, the Library of Congress and the Museum of Modern Art present ; curator, Bruce Posner ; DVD producer, David Shepard.
Publisher:
Image Entertainment,
Copyright Date:
2005
Description:
1 videodisc (152 min.) : silent, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
DVD-ROM accessible features: filmmaker biographies and photo gallery, acknowledgements, sponsors, film note authors, credits, musicians.
Contents:
1905 (5 min.) -- Interior N.Y. subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street / G.W. "Billy" Bitzer for American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., 1899 (2 min.) -- Lower Broadway / Robert K. Bonine for American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., 1902 (1 min.) -- Beginning of a skyscraper / Robert K. Bonine for American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., 1902 (31 sec.) -- Panorama from the Times building / Wallace McCutcheon for American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., 1905 (2 min.) -- Skyscrapers of New York from the North River / J.B. Smith for Edison Manufacturing Co., 1903 (2-min. excerpt) -- Panorama from tower of Brooklyn Bridge / G.W. "Billy" Bitzer for American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., 1903 (30 sec.) -- Tricks of the trade: Building up and demolishing the Star Theatre / Frederick S. Armitage for American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., 1901 (3 min.) -- Coney Island at night / Edwin S. Porter for Edison Manufacturing Co., 1905 (3 min.) -- Interior N.Y. subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street / G.W. "Billy" Bitzer for American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., 1905 (5 min.) -- Bronx morning / Jay Leyda, 1931 (14 min.) -- Looney lens: Split skyscrapers, Tenth Avenue, NYC / Al Brick for Fox News, 1924 (2 min.) -- Scenes from Ford educational weekly of Manhattan, c. 1916-27 (70 sec. compilation) -- Manhatta / Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler, 1920 (11 min.) -- Twenty-four dollar island / Robert Flaherty, c. 1926 (13 min.) -- Skyscraper symphony / Robert Florey, 1929 (11 min.) -- Manhattan medley / Bonney Powell for Magic Carpet of Movietone, Fox Film Corporation, 1931 (10 min.) -- A Bronx morning / Jay Leyda, 1931 (14 min.) -- Autumn fire / Herman G. Weinberg, 1930-33 (22 min.). "Seeing the world" part one: a visit to New York, N.Y. / Rudy Burckhardt, 1937 (10 min.) -- Pursuit of happiness / Rudy Burckhardt, 1940 (8 min.) -- Gold diggers of 1935 "Lullaby of Broadway" / Busby Berkeley for First National/Vitaphone, featuring Winifred Shaw, 1935 (13-min. excerpt) -- Autumn fire / Herman G. Weinberg, 1930-33 (22 min.).
Summary:
"The DVD depicts dynamic images of New York City and scenes of New Yorkers among the skyscrapers, streets, and night life of America's greatest city during a half century of progress, while at the same time showing changes in film style and the history of cinema experiments. Avant-garde moments pop up in the most unlikely of places including turn-of-the-twentieth-century actualities, commercial and radical newsreels, and Busby Berkeley's "Lullaby of Broadway" from Gold Diggers of 1935"--Unseen Cinema website.
Series:
Unseen cinema ; 5
OCLC:
(OCoLC)72023083
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.