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John E. Allen, Inc. Jea 1N02 JOHN E. ALLEN, INC. JEA 1N02 - NEW YORK CITY <05/95> [u-bit #39015140] 02:00:04 City Hall [also see 1X07 -02:00:28 (1920s) 22:24:22-22:25:41] 02:00:30 Times Square - HA with “Tonight - Our Gang Contest Ramon [also see 1N08 -02:02:20 Navarro” on marquee, street level, then TRUCKING shot 21:04:16-21:09:59] (1920s) [also see 1X15 17:52:23-17:53:04] [see 1X07 07:25:23-07:31:11] 1795.2-4-1 02:02:29 1) views mostly from boats in harbor - Statue of Liberty, skylines, (N) NYC: Harbor Views -02:15:38 boats, tugboats, bridge etc. (1900-1950s?) [also partially on 1E05 09:00:46-09:02:16] [also partially on 1E01 01:07:50-01:08:57] [also partially on 1H38 05:29:35-05:31:21] NYC 1939-40 [color] 02:15:54 people on sidewalks 02:17:00 Holland tunnel 02:17:14 bridges - “...Queensboro - Whitestone - George Washington - The Triboro - Downtown Bridges Over The East River” 02:17:29 policeman directing traffic off bridge 02:17:38 PANs across bridges 02:18:07 day liner up Hudson River under George Washington Bridge 02:18:14 PAN across Brooklyn Bridge 02:18:34 Grand Central Station 02:18:49 Penn Station - HA exterior 02:18:58 La Guardia airport - PAN from parking lot to airfield 02:19:28 American Airlines airplane on runway 02:19:35 MLS POV from ship passing by Ellis Island 02:19:51 MCSs Statue of Liberty 02:20:24 POV from ship of downtown skyline at Battery Park, PAN across buildings 02:21:02 AERIAL of New York harbor with ships 02:21:29 Battery Park 02:21:44 Hudson River piers JOHN E. ALLEN, INC. 1N02 -2- 02:21:56 Wall Street 02:22:03 Trinity Church 02:22:16 U.S. Sub-Treasury Building 02:22:41 Stock Exchange 02:23:02 Flat Iron Building 02:23:21 PAN down Woolworth Building 02:23:40 Chrysler Building 02:23:57 Empire State Building at 5th Ave. and 34th St. 02:24:25 City Hall, Municipal Building 02:24:51 Essex Street - retail markets, produce terminal, CU food, horse-drawn vegetable carts 02:25:41 Fulton Fish market, South Street Seaport, sailing boats, fish being weighed, fishermen market exterior with pushcarts 02:26:55 Lower East Side, El railroad, Bowery and Chinatown 02:27:18 Chinatown gift shops 02:27:40 tenements 02:27:51 Queensbridge Housing Project (built 03/15/40) - PAN across many buildings of project, families, children playing in playground 02:28:50 Columbia Medical Center 02:29:11 New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center 02:29:25 East River between Queens and Manhattan and Harlem River Drive, ramps 02:30:15 street sign: “Washington Sq.” 02:30:24 art on display on sidewalks of Greenwich Village 02:31:16 HA view of Washington Square Park with arch 02:31:25 view up 5th Ave. through Washington Arch 02:31:42 5th Ave./42nd St. - New York Public Library 02:32:10 St. Patrick’s Cathedral 02:32:46 Rockefeller Center, fountain, plaza roller skating, AERIAL 02:34:00 Park Ave from roof 02:34:48 HA view from top of building of skyscrapers and Central Park 02:35:40 The Dakota, water, ducks, people at zoo, seals 02:36:34 Metropolitan Museum of Art 02:36:46 Riverside Drive - Soldiers Monument 02:36:53 Grant’s Tomb 02:37:12 Riverside Memorial Church 02:37:34 Columbia University 02:37:53 Harlem - views of women and children walking in parade along Lenox St. at 125th St. 02:38:17 playground, children in swings - Lower East Side 02:38:24 Lower East Side - pool 02:38:51 Coney Island - 02:38:52 people out of subway 02:39:12 beach, bathers, CSs people on beach playing guitars and eating 02:40:00 Times Square during the day with PAN up from people around subway station to tops of buildings with traffic and pedestrians 02:40:22 out of focus view of Times Square at night 02:40:36 in focus view of Times Square at night with signs: “Chevrolet”, “Planters Peanuts” -02:40:42 and “Coca Cola” 1N02 -3- JOHN E. ALLEN, INC. [u-bit #29117482] 1748.2-1-1 02:40:54 1) from East River - a few ships passing by, skyline in background (N) NYC: Skylines -02:51:31 1748.2-2-5 02:51:35 1) busy street scenes, traffic, crowd in street (N) NYC: Street -02:51:50 Scenes (1933) [also see below 03:23:38-03:23:54] 02:51:55 2) large crowd of pedestrians and traffic (N) NYC: Street -02:52:12 (1932) Scenes - 30s -1- 02:52:15 3) street scene, pedestrians, building in background (N) NYC: Street -02:52:24 (1932) Scenes - 30s -1- 02:52:27 4) long TRUCKING shot from behind head of man driving car (N) NYC: Street -02:56:02 Scenes (1920) 1903-1-4 03:00:09 1) a) neon sign of fish / New York City marquees at night including (N) Theatres: Ziegfeld -03:00:25 “The Barrier - Jean Parker” (1937) / street scene during the day in front of Ziegfeld’s “New Amsterdam” theatre, short shot of performers coming out of theatre to street 03:00:32 b) HA Times Square (dark) (N) NYC: Times Square - -03:01:54 Night 20s 03:01:59 marquees: “Arcadia Ballroom” , “Palais D’Or” (1925) FA Neg -03:02:15 <1704-3-2> 03:02:18 c) view high above Times Square and Grand Central (N) NYC: Rooftops and -03:04:32 (1931) Skyscrapers -1- <1704-3-4> [also on 1N24 10:32:05-10:33:47] 1N02 -4- JOHN E. ALLEN, INC. 03:04:36 d) TRUCKING shot of crowd on sidewalk in front of theaters, (N) Marquees: Movie -03:05:40 The Miracle Of The Wolves, Lon Chaney in The Monster, <1704-3-6> sign: “West 45th St.” (1922) 03:05:44 2) crowd exiting theatre under marquee (N) Theatre: Ziegfeld -03:06:22 (1925) [also on 1X64 18:19:15-18:19:47] [also on 1X63 17:28:49-17:29:27] 03:06:25 3) exterior view of Republic Theatre, sign: “Performances” (N) Theatres -03:06:54 03:06:58 4) street scenes (N) Theatre: Ziegfeld -03:07:40 (ca. 1922) <mostly 2 color-b/w flicker> <1704-3-1> 2125-1-2 03:07:48 1) art show in Greenwich Village - (N) Newsreels: -03:08:35 view down sidewalk with pedestrians, paintings being displayed, Telenews D. Vol. 3 two men in front of painting, CUs various paintings, artists at work #102 (S-10) (painting/drawing), African-American artist making portrait of boy, crowd watching, view from behind artist’s painting, CUs various paintings, view down sidewalk with pedestrians, paintings on walls, sidewalk, MCU painting, dog in front (1950) 03:08:36 2) art show in Greenwich Village - view down sidewalk with (N) Newsreels: -03:09:10 pedestrians, paintings displayed, CUs of various paintings, artists Telenews D. Vol. 4 at work drawing woman (1951) 1N02 -5- JOHN E. ALLEN, INC. 03:09:18 (S) “New York - The 03:09:24 view of downtown Manhattan buildings from boat in harbor Wonder City” 03:10:02 Broadway street scene <P.A. - Q-4-G> 03:11:20 Broad Street, PAN up buildings <16mm print> 03:11:40 PAN up New York Stock Exchange 03:12:02 Old Sub-Treasury Building 03:12:12 Trinity Church 03:12:39 Municipal Building, City Hall 03:12:54 PAN down Woolworth Building 03:13:13 LS “Brooklyn Bridge Looking Toward Manhattan Bridge” 03:13:28 elevated Railroad 03:13:43 L.E.S. with pushcarts, tenements and laundry, lemon vendor, corn-on-the cob vendor, old men on bench 03:14:54 Bowery under the EL, sign on building: “Rooms 40 C. A Night” CU restaurant sign with menu 03:15:27 West Side Highway 03:15:50 policeman on horseback leading train down street horse-drawn carts 03:16:25 several views of Empire State Building, PAN up 03:17:05 blimp over city 03:17:19 PAN up Chrysler Building, street scene 03:18:07 Park Avenue, HA down Avenue 03:18:39 Ritz Tower Hotel 03:19:03 PAN down Plaza Hotel 03:19:21 Central Park, woman getting on horse, man and woman on horses 03:19:48 Columbia University 03:20:15 subway into EL station, people boarding train, outdoor station, subway exiting tunnel 03:21:12 Broadway, Times Square at night, neon signs 03:21:29 Grant’s Tomb 03:21:39 George Washington Bridge - opened 10/24/31 03:22:25 3-stack liner S. S. Leviathan - world’s largest ship leaving New York, tugs pushing away from dock, passengers waving, 4-5 tugs pushing liner, people on dock -03:23:37 (early 1930s) [Empasco Pictures] 03:23:38 one frame stretched title: -03:23:54 “We Passed A Statute Providing For Better Regulation Of [repeat from above Automobile Traffic Looking To The Preservation Of Life but stretched And Limb” 02:51:41- ] 1N02 -6- 1509-1-11 JOHN E. ALLEN, INC. 11) The Sixth Walter Futter’s Curiosities (S) NYC: Pre 1915 - L-346 [sound-narration] “Thirty Years Ago” 03:24:05 New York City - street scenes at 42nd Street and 5th Ave. [also on T.O.24 -03:24:27 (1900) <2-color b/w flicker> 02:13:56-02:14:22] 03:24:31 people in Easter parade fashions walking on sidewalk past man and [also see T.O.
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