Visiting The Wonders of Manhattan

Duration: 600 ft.

Year Published: 1930

Complete Record: Wide angle of Statue of Liberty. Wide angle of NYC skyline. Plane in mid-flight over city. Series of extreme wide angle panoramic shots of NYC. Low angle of Woolworth building. Medium shots of lower Manhattan, Brooklyn Bridge, Wall St. and Trinity church, Broad Street and NYC stock exchange, Fraunces Tavern, U.S. Customs House. Wide shots of Aquarium, Battery Park. Jumpy hand held shots of statues and city dwellers. High angle and wide pan of Brooklyn Bridge. Civic Center and City Hall, shot of above ground subway system. East river views. Under Brooklyn Bridge, MS of steamboats. MS of Fulton Fish Market, Old South Street and the pier/Hudson port. Wide angle of Hudson River, boats passing each other. Cut to busy city streets, low angle of cars turning directly in front of the camera. High angle of Wall Street and the sub-treasury, shot of the subway above ground passing a small cemetery. Extreme low angle of City Hall. The Bowery and Chinatown, extreme high angle of women shopping at a fruit market. MS of people crossing paths on a busy street. Shot through a gate of woman hanging her laundry on a clothesline. People rushing down steps to catch the ‘L Train’ boarding the ‘L’ train. MS shots of countless people and cars on congested city streets and Times Square. Boy on a street corner reads a paper. Extreme high angle of busy street corner. Wide angles of skyscrapers. MS of Times Square. More people milling about on street corners. Cut to comparatively serene Riverside Drive, cars, foot traffic. MS of Grant’s Tomb. High angles of Hudson and SS Normandy arriving from Europe. WS of Normandy. People in the middle distance departing ship. over head pan of the ghetto, foreigners exchanging wares, a girl roller skating by. Chinatown, Animated Chinese characters, parade in Chinatown. Washington Square Arch, MS OF Midtown Diagonal angle pan high over Manhattan. Low angle pan up Empire state, low angle pan of Chrysler Building. Cars driving in front of New York Central Station. Masses of people walking Fifth Ave. and public library. A Traffic jam. Extreme low angle pan from under Rockefeller plaza. Low angle pan up RCA building, tourists atop the RCA building. CU of a man taking a photograph of the street from the high elevation. High angle of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. MS of skaters in Rockefeller Center. Central park zoo, Cleopatra’s Nipple, oops I mean Needle. MS of The Met, MS of Museum of the City of New York. POV shot of driving across the Tri-borough bridge to the world’s fair grounds . WA of expressway by the Hudson. Quick MS of Soldiers and Sailors monuments, Grant’s tomb. Low angle pan down side of Riverside church. Columbia University (pretty statue of a monk in frame), MS pan of City College,MS of Uptown Medical Center. Pan of George Washington Bridge, and finally slow MS pan of Times square, Broadway at night ‘THE GREAT WHITE WAY.