Shot by an unknown American filmmaker, this silent home movie film shows a visit to New York City, including Times Square, in 1938. It was shot in early Kodachrome color.
Opening: Subway sign shows: Interborough Downtown via Broadway to Times Square, Penn Station. Subway in the distance coming down the tracks. New York Coliseum bicycle & auto racetrack located in the West Farms section of the Bronx, NYC. Tree Mark Shoe Company building in the Bronx on Kingsbridge Road. A painting of an ocean liner. Men walk around a pier with the Statue of Liberty seen very faintly in the background. Fireboat John J. Harvey fireboat is docked at pier 66 — this boat still exists today. The Statue of Liberty seen very faintly in the background as tugboats float by. Buildings in Manhattan. Close tugboat floats by. Buildings in Manhattan (:15-2:24). Wall Street sign. Wall Street is in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Buildings shot from lower Manhattan. Trinity Church in lower Manhattan. People and cars. People stand near an Interborough Subway sign. Grand Central Station (3:23). Bowery Savings Bank. The Chrysler Building (3:44) Art Deco–style skyscraper located in the Turtle Bay neighborhood on the East Side of Manhattan. Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall. Ziegfeld Follies neon sign, Florsheim Shoes neon sign. Small bridge (2:25-4:27). Cars drive. Cars parked on a street under a subway overpass. Driving underneath subway platform. Crossing a bridge via car. Traffic jam. People walk, cars drive. Triborough Bridge. Boats near the water. Driving by the Triborough Bridge. Cars on the move. Underneath the Triborough Bridge. Driving down the road towards the Triborough Bridge. Driving over the Triborough Bridge. Looking off the side of a foggy Triborough Bridge. Cars drive over the bridge. Signs show Englewood, Yonkers Ferry, Bear Mt. Aerial shots of a river and sides of a river (4:28-8:59). Aerial shots of a river and sides of a river. A man holds a 16mm movie camera and shoots something with it down below. The man walks away holding the camera, he looks at the camera. A man wearing a hat walks by. Views out of the windshield going past forests, down a country road. Woods. A man sits on a log. He fans himself with his hat. He looks over a log. He gets a rifle ready and walks off into the woods. A seagull behind a fence. Pine trees and a lake (9:00-12:50). Women swimming in a public pool. A finger holds a butterfly at night. A butterfly flies around. A hand holds a turtle, turns the turtle. Houses in the evening. A flower in the foreground with a house behind it(12:51-14:27).
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