The City (Part 2) (1939, sound)

Description:

Description: Montage depicting the high paced energy in the streets, transportation, and people of New York City. Excerpt from "The City," directed by Willard Van Dyke and Ralph Steiner.

Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com.

Subjects: 1930s, Cities, Poverty, Transportation

Tags: Great Depression; poverty; dilapidated houses; man pumping water from outdoor pump; man and woman pumping water; gaunt woman hanging laundry; long underwear hanging on clothesline; working man carrying lunchbox returns home; worker, possibly miner, washing face and hands in bowl of water; woman shoveling coal into kitchen stove; smoke emanating from old brick chimney; smoke out of locomotive engine; industrial city with smoke emanating from many places; large crane moving on rails; poor children; inner cities; steam locomotives; railroad yards; oblique shots of skyscrapers; crowds of people walking on New York City streets; people exiting subway stations; people walking down stairs from elevated railroad stations; cobblestone streets; forward progress; hands typing on typewriters; office workers; room full of women office workers seated at individual desks; city commuters; children playing in the inner city streets; St. Vincents Hospital; subways; Lower East Side; go-karts; elevated trains; 10th Avenue train cars; children burning trash; kids swimming in the river; Queens Taxi Cab sign; window breaking; Black woman eating a donut; toasters; sandwich making; diners; automatic pancake flippers; coffee urns; lunch counters; taxi stands; traffic; midtown Manhattan; traffic jams; pushcarts; taxi meters; taxicabs; police officer directing traffic; street signs; steam rising from street; changing tires; crowded passenger cars; people of color; billboards; license plates; irate drivers; empty city streets on weekends; crowded suburban weekend traffic; Palisades Amusement Park sign; car accidents; tricycle riding police officer; car going over a cliff; gas stations; cat eating out of garbage cans; children crying; doctors; ambulances; outhouses; clotheslines; people pumping water; narration in the voice of poor laborers; smoke stacks; music; street scenes; crowds; bread slicer; cafeterias; people eating; people picnicking on grass right next to highway; city symphonies; pedestrians; changing tire; "ice cold watermelons" sign; police puppet sign with moving arms; "Death Lurks at all Crossings" sign; billboards; speed; congestion; crowding; Aaron Copeland "Fanfare for the Common Man"; overcrowding

Film Sponsor: American Institute of Planners

Creator: Ralph Steiner, Willard Van Dyke

Credits: Music: Aaron Copland
Narrator: Morris Carnovsky

Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Prelinger Archives

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date:

Release Date: 1939

Geographical Location: New York, New York; New York; USA; Lower East Side, New York, New York

Genre/Form: documentary

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Rights:

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: release print

Color: b&w

Color Process:

Sound or Silent: sound

Film Soundtrack Type: optical, variable area

Edge Code: circle

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 403

Complete Record: Description: Montage depicting the high paced energy in the streets, transportation, and people of New York City. Excerpt from "The City," directed by Willard Van Dyke and Ralph Steiner. Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com. Subjects: 1930s, Cities, Poverty, Transportation Tags: Great Depression; poverty; dilapidated houses; man pumping water from outdoor pump; man and woman pumping water; gaunt woman hanging laundry; long underwear hanging on clothesline; working man carrying lunchbox returns home; worker, possibly miner, washing face and hands in bowl of water; woman shoveling coal into kitchen stove; smoke emanating from old brick chimney; smoke out of locomotive engine; industrial city with smoke emanating from many places; large crane moving on rails; poor children; inner cities; steam locomotives; railroad yards; oblique shots of skyscrapers; crowds of people walking on New York City streets; people exiting subway stations; people walking down stairs from elevated railroad stations; cobblestone streets; forward progress; hands typing on typewriters; office workers; room full of women office workers seated at individual desks; city commuters; children playing in the inner city streets; St. Vincents Hospital; subways; Lower East Side; go-karts; elevated trains; 10th Avenue train cars; children burning trash; kids swimming in the river; Queens Taxi Cab sign; window breaking; Black woman eating a donut; toasters; sandwich making; diners; automatic pancake flippers; coffee urns; lunch counters; taxi stands; traffic; midtown Manhattan; traffic jams; pushcarts; taxi meters; taxicabs; police officer directing traffic; street signs; steam rising from street; changing tires; crowded passenger cars; people of color; billboards; license plates; irate drivers; empty city streets on weekends; crowded suburban weekend traffic; Palisades Amusement Park sign; car accidents; tricycle riding police officer; car going over a cliff; gas stations; cat eating out of garbage cans; children crying; doctors; ambulances; outhouses; clotheslines; people pumping water; narration in the voice of poor laborers; smoke stacks; music; street scenes; crowds; bread slicer; cafeterias; people eating; people picnicking on grass right next to highway; city symphonies; pedestrians; changing tire; "ice cold watermelons" sign; police puppet sign with moving arms; "Death Lurks at all Crossings" sign; billboards; speed; congestion; crowding; Aaron Copeland "Fanfare for the Common Man"; overcrowding Film Sponsor: American Institute of Planners Creator: Ralph Steiner, Willard Van Dyke Credits: Music: Aaron Copland Narrator: Morris Carnovsky Distributor: Contributor: Prelinger Archives Source Collection: Prelinger Archives Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive Production Date: Release Date: 1939 Geographical Location: New York, New York; New York; USA; Lower East Side, New York, New York Genre/Form: documentary Language: Rights: Film Format: 16mm film Element: release print Color: b&w Color Process: Sound or Silent: sound Film Soundtrack Type: optical, variable area Edge Code: circle Frame Rate: 24 fps Length (feet): 403