Home Movie: 098667 (silent)

Genre: home movie

Description: Description: While the stock market was crashing in 1929, an optimistic developer's project was taking shape in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. The reel documents the construction of the London Terrace apartment building by Henry Mandel Companies and the architectural firm Farrar & Watmough. With action spanning October of 1929 to spring, 1930, the building emerges and takes shape from excavation to completion. A variety of tradespeople are shown at work with their labors represented across carpentry, ironwork, electrical work, and stonemasonry. With Manhattan skylines of 1930. Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com. Subjects: 1920s, 1930s, Labor, Construction, Real estate, Architecture, Cities Tags: "Albert A. Volk Co. Excavators 1810 Broadway" sign; October 3 1929; construction; laborers; builders; masonry; scaffolding; "The Clement Moore 429" sign on transom; Delaney Bros. Contractors; steam; steam shovels; debris; cranes; intertitles; workers; excavation; basement levels; big digs; fire; incineration; wiring; high-rise buildings; urban planning; city planning; steel frame buildings; steel beams; sawhorses; climbing; dangerous jobs; masons; bricklaying; brick facades; cement mixers; Dec 3 1929; handmade titles; homemade titles; London Terrace In Old Chelsea; architecture; landscapes; New York Title and Mortgage Company; refrigerator delivery; ice box; Hudson River; building construction; apartment buildings; apartments; woman in furs; ladies' hats; "Renting Offices" sign; rentals; bricks; debris in camera gate; 1920s cars; 1920s New York City streets; 1920s safety precautions; workers shoveling dirt; wheelbarrows; cement; cranes; lifting an I-Beam; hoisting; ironworkers; carpenters; electricians; masons; men in suits; tamping dirt; London Terrace Apartments; 415 West 23rd Street; labor; rooftop water tanks; neighboring rooftops; man juggles bricks; finishing work; refrigerator delivery; onset of depression; police officers; finished building; men chomp cigars; man wears corsage; building sidewalks; men enter building using plank over fresh cement; film and media art; time-lapse photography; Film Sponsor: Creator: Credits: Distributor: Contributor: Prelinger Archives Source Collection: Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive Production Date: 1929-10-03 through 1930-03-12 Release Date: Geographical Location: USA; New York; New York, New York; Manhattan, New York, New York Genre/Form: home movie, amateur, documentation Language: eng Rights: Film Format: 16mm film Element: reversal, original, print Color: b&w Color Process: Sound or Silent: silent Film Soundtrack Type: mos Edge Code: plus Frame Rate: 16 fps Length (feet): 492

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