Up and Down New York (silent)

Description: A 1930s tour around Manhattan Island features plenty of high angle photography, with aviation-based footage a novelty at the time showing the island's skylines and architecture. With Times Square glowing and classic early 20th century landscape features and on-the-ground immersion in large crowds in the lower East Side markets, Chinatown, and Fifth Avenue. With Black community members in Harlem, and children directly addressing the camera.

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Subjects: 1930s, Cities, Architecture, Black history and culture , People of African origin or descent

Tags: aerials; buildings; filmed from an airplane; Statue of Liberty; Ellis Island; Hudson River; New York Harbor; piers; New York City skyline; Brooklyn Bridge; bridges; tugboats; wharfs; outdoor market stalls; outdoor markets; street scenes; carts; under the elevated tracks; trucks; streetcar tracks; "Jims Barber Shop Shave 10 cents" sign; "Tattooing" sign; Chinatown; Washington Square Arch; Flatiron Building; Empire State Building; Chrysler Building; panoramic views; Grand Central Station interiors; 1930s cars; 1930s clothing; traffic; 5th Avenue; Fifth Avenue; closeup of feet walking; Grant's Tomb; double-decker busses; Lenox Ave. & W. 135 St. sign; African American police officer directing traffic; Harlem; African American children smiling; Black communities; street scenes; neon at night; Broadway lights; Times Square lit up; neon lights; neon signs; The End title; hangman graphic motif; inexplicable motifs;

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Central Film Company

Credits: Central Film Company
Photographed by Carl Berger

Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Mogull Bros.

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

Production Date: circa 1931

Release Date:

Geographical Location: USA; New York; New York, New York

Genre/Form: silent

Language: eng

Rights:

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: print

Color: b&w

Color Process:

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: none

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 342