N.Y., N.Y.

Duration: 15

Year Published: 1958

Creator: Frances Thompson

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Uses distorted and multiple images with a descriptive musical score to present impressions of a day in New York City. Begins at sunrise and follows through a single day including such activities as breakfasting, subway and elevator riding, stenography, and nightclubbing. Continuity of the scenes is achieved through semi-abstract visual forms and patterns of rhythm and musical integration., Remarkable photography by the former painter and well-known filmmaker, Francis Thompson, creates abstract art from distorted images. Familiar New York sights such as crowds, buildings, lights, shop fronts, taxis are seen through multiplying prisms or reflected in spherical or parabolic mirrors. No narration; musical score added. MCLS subject heading: Experimental, Miscellaneous & Abstract Films.

Complete Record: Uses distorted and multiple images with a descriptive musical score to present impressions of a day in New York City. Begins at sunrise and follows through a single day including such activities as breakfasting, subway and elevator riding, stenography, and nightclubbing. Continuity of the scenes is achieved through semi-abstract visual forms and patterns of rhythm and musical integration., A film in the city symphony mode that uses color and kaleidoscopic effects, and abstract photography of people, buildings, and traffic in New York to produce an artistic interpretation of the city. , , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.