Story Of A City: New York, The

Creator: Simmel-Meservey

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: PICTORIAL EXPLANATION OF HISTORIC & ECONOMIC CAUSES FOR EMERGENCE OF NEW YORK AS ONE OF WORLD'S LARGEST CITIES & OF ITS VITAL RELATION TO REST OF AMERICA.; Shots; aerials of Manhattan, Central Park, Chrysler Building, maps; view from the ferries, Statue of Liberty; New York Harbor, ships; at the time the biggest and busiest port in the world, carrying almost half of the entire foreign trade of the United States; street sign: Wall Street; financial district, various banks, New York Stock Exchange; Egg truck, garment district workers moving along handtrucks packed with merchandise; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art; Street sign: Park Avenue (51st street); Park Avenue, Grand Central Station; Queens: 59th Street Bridge (Queensborough Bridge), Elmhurst gas tanks, Queens-Midtown Tunnel; city buses, subway, nickel subway fare, Third Avenue El (elevated railway), A&&P Supermarket; laundry, Lower East Side, produce from pushcart vendor, City Hall, Municipal Building, Department of Sanitation truck, street cleaner; Empire State Building, Waldorf-Astoria, Rockefeller Center; street sign: Exchange Place (Broad Street); smokestacks; horse-drawn carriage and biking in Central Park, also Central Park lake, The Ambassador hotel, the New Yorker Hotel, RCA Communications Building; young people playing on fire escape ladder