Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting the USA in 1970
It contains stock footage of New York:
0:46 - Horn & Hardart automated food service area. At Horn & Hardart restaurant people used to pick food from various small windows (almost like modern food dispenser machines) and then carry items to the cashier where they pay
0:48 - Christopher Street - West Village
0:58 - Village Voice Newspaper headquarters: a very radical and very left wing (much more so than today) publication. The Village Voice is the nation's first alternative weekly newspaper, covering the counter-culture, politics, and all things New York from 1955 to now
1:44 - Chinatown on the east side of Manhattan
1:52 - a policeman on his 1970s vintage uniform
2:38 - Central Park
2:56 - the ice skating rink at Rockefeller Center
4:37 - the Empire State Building
4:49 - New York City Public Library building, with a really quick look at the iconic lions flanking the staircase
5:12 - people walking while carrying what might be one of the Chinese Dragon floats
5:18 - aerial view of New York showcasing the Art Deco Chrysler building and the UN Building on the East River
5:29 - PanAm building, now the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building
7:00 - Rockefeller Plaza building and the ice skating rink;
8:23 - Manhattan skyline with Brooklyn Bridge in the foreground and Manhattan Bridge behind it. This must've been shot from Lower Manhattan
8:27 - The Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island: halfway between New York and New Jersey. The two states fought over the island but it's now considered to be part of the state of New York
8:48 - the Verrazano Bridge connecting Brooklyn with Staten Island
9:06 - the Statue of Liberty
9:13 and 9:30 - Close shots of the Verrazano Bridge
9:35 - driver's point of view while driving on Shore Parkway (part of the Belt Parkway system) and going under the Verrazano Bridge
9:53 - Manhattan
10:04 - the Queen Elizabeth 2 liner docked on the west side of Manhattan
10:20 - Central Park
10:48 - Upper West Side of Manhattan
11:10 - 5th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan
11:36 - St Patrick's Cathedral
12:01 - Wall Street
12:34 - Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch commemorating the Civil War at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, right at the entrance to Prospect Park
13:23 - probably Columbia University
13:40 - Morris-Jumel Mansion. The Morris-Jumel Mansion or Morris House is an 18th-century Federal style museum situated in upper Manhattan
13:46 - public housing, probably in Harlem or in lower East Side
14:08 - the Third Avenue Bridge connecting Manhattan with the Bronx
14:22 - W 45th Street in Manhattan
14:34 - New York City's hero Firefighters in the Bronx
15:00 - St Patrick's Cathedral
15:16 - Rockefeller Center
15:34 - New York City Public Library
Please, comment if you recognize more subjects.
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10 ноя 2021
