This early 1940s silent film “New York City” was produced by Walter O. Cutlohn Inc., a leading film distributor, and gives viewers an insight into the diversity of New York City. It focuses mainly on architecture and covers impressive buildings across the city. It then looks at some of the services provided, like markets and different medical centers. It also focuses on new projects in the city, such as houses from the Queensbridge Housing Project, completed in 1939. The film shows most sites in detail and from different angles. It also shows excellent color footage of streets in New York, giving insight into life at the time. Catalog description: “Views of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and the skyline of New York.We see the Stock Exchange and Wall Street, the lower East side with its large Jewish population, the Bowery and Chinatown. From there we go to some of the sky-scrapers including the Empire State and the Chrysler buildings. Aerial views of Times Square and the Public Library, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the Easter Parade on Fifth Avenue plus a visit to Riverside Drive, Grant’s Tomb and other spots of interest conclude the reel.” (Note: we believe a sound version of this film was also released.)

00:00 Titles 0:24 Queensboro Bridge, 0:33 Whitestone Bridge, 0:51 George Washington Bridge, 1:10 the Brooklyn Bridge, 1:30 Grand Central Station, 1:46 Pennsylvania Station, 2:03 the terminal at La Guardia Airport, 2:25 an American Airlines DC-3 taxiing, 2:36 Ellis Island seen from a ship, 3:06 the Statue of Liberty, 3:34 New York’s skyline as seen from Battery Park, 4:16 ships arriving and departing New York Harbor from above, 5;08 the Trinity Church, 5:23 busy traffic in front of Federal Hall in Manhattan, 5:52 the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street, 6:14 the Flatiron building, 6:38 the Woolworth Building, 6:50 the Chrysler Building, 7:14 different angles of the Empire State Building, 7:46 New York City Hall and the Municipal Building, 8:06 the Essex Street Retail Market, 8:22 sellers at the New York wholesale vegetable market, 8:58 ships unloading fish while docked by the Fulton Fish Market, 9:41 sellers at the Fulton Fish Market, 10:13 Bowery Street, 10:21 shops in Chinatown, 10:48 the old and new Queensbridge Houses, 12:05 overview of the Welfare Island Medical Center, 12:25 the Columbia Medical Center on the Hudson, 12:47 New York Hospital and the Cornell University Center, 13:04 the Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive, 13:54 artists selling art at Washington Square in Greenwich Village, 14:48 the Washington Square Arch, 15:01 the start of 5th Avenue, 15:19 the New York Public Library, 15:50 St. Patrick’s Cathedral, 16:17 30 Rockefeller Plaza, 16:33 the square in front of 30 Rockefeller Plaza, 17:00 view from above of people roller-skating at Rockefeller plaza, 17:31 a slow pan across Park Avenue as seen from above, 18:39 aerial overview of Central Park, 19:16 ducks in Central Park, 19:39 large crowds at the Central Park Zoo, 22:06 the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 20:18 the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument, 20:25 Grant’s Tomb, 20:43 the Riverside Memorial Church, 21:06 the Low Memorial Library at Columbia University, 21:25 a parade at Lenox Avenue in Harlem, 21:46 different playgrounds and pools for children in the Lower East Side, 22:29 people arriving in a train at Coney Island, 22:48 people at the Coney Island Beach,23:36 slow pan over Times Square, 23:54 Times Square at night, 24:14 The End, distributed by Walter O. Cutlohn Inc.

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