- Title: V-1421
- Summary: JOHN GUNTHER'S HIGH ROAD NEW YORK CITY:
- Description:00:46:02 - NARRATOR'S INTRODUCTION 00:46:33 - AERIAL DAY NEW YORK SKYSCRAPERS HARBOR PIERS VARIOUS ANGLES CITY SKYLINE 00:47:20 - VARIOUS SCENES EARLY MORNING STREETS OF MANHATTAN EARLY MORNING TRAFFIC, FEW PEDESTRIANS 00:47:32 - SCENES OF COMMUTERS COMING INTO MANHATTAN ON THROUGHWAYS, CONGESTED MORNING COMMUTE TRAFFIC SLOWLY MERGING DOWNTOWN GREAT 1950s CARS 00:47:59 - SUBWAY STATION, SUBWAY TRAIN COMING INTO STATION 00:48:02 - CU PASSENGERS PUSHING THEIR WAY ONTO SUBWAY CAR COMMUTERS. SUBWAY LEAVING STATION 00:48:12 - CU COMMUTERS SLOWLY MAKING THEIR WAY UP SUBWAY STATION STEPS RIVER AVE. 00:48:15 - CITY STREET SCENES TRAFFIC COMING & GOING, COFFEE SHOP, PEDESTRIANS CITY LIFESTYLE 00:48:18 - MONTAGE CITY MODES OF TRANSPORTATION: SUBWAYS, BUSES, TRAINS 00:48:25 - CITY STREET SCENES STREETS PACKED WITH PEDESTRIANS 00:48:32 - WS GRAND CENTRAL STATION TRAIN STATION CIRCA 1959. Or is it Penn Station? 00:48:39 - OUT OF TOWN NEWSPAPER STAND CUSTOMERS BUYING MORNING PAPERS, ECU VARIOUS CITIES NEWSPAPERS, MAN SELECTING BIRMINGHAM NEWSPAPER 00:48:48 - NEW YORK CITY STREET SCENES MORNING COMMUTE 00:48:54 - ECU STREET CORNER BLINKING DON'T WALK 00:48:57 - MS NO PARKING 8 AM TO MIDNIGHT STREET SIGN PANS BACK SHOWING 1950s CARS PARKED ON CITY STREET 00:49:06 - MS MAN WITH CAR TROUBLE LEANING OVER ENGINE OF CAR WITH HOOD UP FIXING CAR IN BUSY CITY. SHUTS HOOD, WIFE JUMPS IN CAR, THEY DRIVE AWAY 00:49:25 - HIGH ANGLE NEW YORK CITY MORNING COMMUTE 00:49:30 - ECU FINGER DIALING ROTARY TELEPHONE 00:49:32 - ECU SWITCHBOARD, OPERATOR PLUGGING IN LINES 00:49:39 - ECU TELEPHONE OPERATOR. MS SWITCHBOARD OPERATORS PLUGGING IN PHONE LINES 00:49:47 - HS BUSY CROWDED OFFICE WORKERS WORKING IN CUBICLES 00:49:50 - LOW ANGLE SKYSCRAPER 00:49:54 - MS MANY WINDOW CLEANERS SUSPENDED BY ROPES HIGH ABOVE THE STREET CLEANING WINDOWS 00:49:59 - POV WINDOW CLEANER LOOKING DOWN TO STREET BELOW 00:50:02 - CU GROUP OF WINDOW CLEANERS. POV FROM ABOVE LOOKING AT CLEANER JUST BELOW 00:50:11 - VARIOUS ANGLE CONSTRUCTION BUILDING SITES IN MANHATTAN 00:50:33 - MS OLD BUILDING BEING RAZED TORN DOWN DEMOLISHED 00:50:36 - MS TILT UP LENGTH OF NEW SKYSCRAPER 00:50:44 - CU CRANE DIGGING OUT FOUNDATION. FILLING DUMP TRUCK WITH DIRT CONSTRUCTION SITE 00:51:09 - MONTAGE RESIDENTS WALKING PET DOGS ON MORNING WALK. SMALL LAP DOG, POODLE, IRISH WOLFHOUND, BOXER 00:51:40 - MONTAGE DEPARTMENT STORES, LORD & TAYLOR, MACY'S, 00:51:48 - MS SPECIALITY SHOP WINDOW DISPLAY OF SKULLS 00:51:54 - CU HUMAN SKULLS ON DISPLAY IN WINDOW 00:51:57 - CU SIGKLEIN'S FAT MEN'S SHOP. MS BIG & TALL MAN BEING FITTED ON CITY STREET IN FRONT OF SPECIALITY SHOP. SATISFIED CUSTOMER THANKING TAILOR WEARING MEASURING TAPE AROUND HIS NECK OBESE MAN 00:52:06 - CU ROBERT ABELS ANTIQUE SHOP MINIATURE ARMORED STATUE GUARDS ENTRANCE TO SHOP. CUSTOMER WALKING OUT OF SHOP WITH PURCHASE 00:52:12 - MS SALESWOMAN IN SHOP WINDOW MAKING DISPLAY WITH MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS RITA FORD MUSIC BOXES WRITTEN ON WINDOW PUTTING ZITHER IN WINDOW DISPLAY 00:52:22 - CU SIGN HANGING ON DRUG STORE "LOVE POTIONS" PANS BACK TO CUSTOMERS EXITING PHARMACY 00:52:30 - MS TROPICAL FISH AQUARIUM STOCK CO. STORE. CU SIGN ADVERTISING SEA HORSES. 00:52:39 - MS FACADE VAN CLEEF AND ARPELS JEWELERS, JEWELRY STORE. CU JEWELRY DISPLAY. MS CUSTOMER BEING FITTED WITH "EMPRESS JOSEPHINE'S" TIARA 00:53:04 - INTERIOR: SALESMAN'S MODEL SHOWING CUSTOMER JEWELRY WEARING NECKLACE & EAR RINGS. CUSTOMER NODDING HEAD IN APPROVAL. WEALTHY COSTUMER EARRINGS ALONE COST $200,000 IN 1959! 00:53:30 - MS JEWELRY CASE DISPLAYING EXPENSIVE JEWELRY 00:53:37 - CU WORKER FILLING BUCKETS WITH CRUSHED ICE FISH MARKET CU FRESHLY CAUGHT FISH BEING THROWN ON SCALE WEIGHING FISH 00:53:46 - LS FACADE FULTON FISH MARKET, NEW YORK CITY SCENES FROM FISH MARKET WORKERS WEIGHING PACKING FISH IN ICE FOR SHIPMENT LOADING ONTO REFRIGERATOR TRUCKS 00:54:06 - SCENES FROM NEW YORK HARBORFRONT. CU LOIDE-URUGUA SHIPS FROM RIO DE JANEIRO LOADING FREIGHTERS WITH CRATES OF FISH SHIPMENTS 00:54:28 - SCENES OF CRUISE SHIPS LUXURY LINERS PASSENGERS GOING ON CRUISE WAVING TO FOLKS ON PIERS STREAMERS BEING THROWN FROM DECK OF SHIP. TUG BOAT PASSING LINER SHOWS IMMENSE SIZE. 00:54:43 - AERIAL OVER FRENCH LINER MOORED IN HARBOR OTHER SMALLER SHIPS FOLLOWING LINER OUT OF HARBOR 00:54:52 - COMMERCIAL PLANE TAKING OFF BOAC 00:55:05 - SCENES FROM NEW YORK AIRPORT LAGUARDIA PLANES LANDING 00:55:26 - HS NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 00:55:28 - SCENES FROM N. Y. PUBLIC LIBRARY CU LIONS GUARDING ENTRANCE & INSCRIPTION 00:55:37 - INTERIOR LIBRARY CIRCA 1959 00:55:40 - MAN BROWSING OVER CARD CATALOG CARRYING DRAWER OF CARDS TO TABLE 00:55:43 - POV WALKING THROUGH LIBRARY SHELVES & SHELVES OF BOOKS 00:55:53 - CU YOUNG MAN SELECTING BOOK FROM SHELF 00:55:56 - HS TABLES IN LIBRARY FILLED WITH READERS 00:56:05 - SCENE FROM THE BOWERY SECTION OF MANHATTAN HOMELESS MEN LEAVING SHELTER. DARK SIDE OF THE CITY 00:56:11 - MS HOMELESS MAN SITTING ON SIDEWALK STREET BEGGING FOR MONEY 00:56:14 - MS HOMELESS MAN SLEEPING ON SUBWAY GRATE IN MANHATTAN. DERELICT, BUM. UNFORTUNATE 00:56:16 - CU BOWERY BUM DRUNK SMOKING CIGARETTE STAGGERING 00:56:24 - MS TWO HOMELESS MEN SHARING BOTTLE ON CITY STREET GETTING DRUNK DROWNING THEIR SORROWS 00:56:29 - MS HOMELESS MAN ORGANIZING HIS BELONGINGS 00:56:31 - MS CRAZY HOMELESS MAN SITTING ON CURB SHAKING FISTS TALKING TO HIMSELF 00:56:36 - AMBULANCE ARRIVING AT HOSPITAL BELLEVUE ORDERLIES TAKING STRETCHER OUT OF AMBULANCE INTO HOSPITAL 00:56:48 - SCENES FROM WALL STREET FINANCIAL AREA OF MANHATTAN 00:56:59 - HS FLOOR OF THE EXCHANGE MS READING TICKER TAPE USUAL PANDEMONIUM ON STOCK EXCHANGE FLOOR 00:57:14 - EXTERIOR TILT DOWN TRINITY CHURCH 00:57:32 - MS SMALL CEMETARY BESIDE CHURCH. CU GRAVESTONES ROBERT FULTON, ALEXANDER HAMILTON, CU GRAVES FROM REVOLUTIONARY WAR 00:58:09 - CU LUNCH BOX BEING THROWN INTO GARBAGE CAN, MISSES & FALLS ON GROUND LITTERING 00:58:13 - CU PIGEONS EATING BITS OF BREAD THROWN ON GROUND CU SQUIRREL BEING HAND FED SQUIRREL EATING FROM MAN'S HAND 00:58:18 - CU YOUNG BOY FEEDING BIRD FROM HIS HAND 00:58:19 - MS OLD MAN SITTING AT JACK KEMPS RESTAURANT TOOTHLESS OLD MAN GUMMING HIS LIPS 00:58:24 - CU YOUNG WOMAN SIPPING FROM STRAW AT SODA SHOP 00:58:27 - CU MADE UP YOUNG GIRLS EATING AT SODA SHOP FALSE EYELASHES 00:58:33 - CU BARTENDER POURING MUG OF BEER FROM TAP 00:58:36 - AERIAL OVER CENTRAL PARK 00:58:40 - SCENES FROM CENTRAL PARK FAMILY PICNIC ON GRASS CHILDREN PLAYING ROW BOATS IN LAKE BOY WEARING SAILOR CAP 00:58:46 - MONTAGE RESIDENTS TAKING NAPS IN PARK GREAT SHOT OF SLEEPING BAREFOOT MAN 00:58:55 - CU SIGN IN PARK READING "THIS LAWN OPEN FOR PASSIVE USE" CUTS TO COUPLE KISSING ON LAWN 00:59:04 - MS OLDER COUPLE TAKING RIDE AROUND PARK IN HANSOM HORSE DRAWN CARRIAGE 00:59:10 - MS TWO MEN HORSEBACK RIDING IN CENTRAL PARK 00:59:12 - BOYS PLAYING BASEBALL GAME IN CENTRAL PARK 00:59:15 - BOYS FISHING IN CENTRAL PARK 00:59:19 - COUPLES ROWING IN CENTRAL PARK ROW BOATS 00:59:23 - ELDERLY MEN PLAYING CHESS CHECKERS IN CENTRAL PARK 00:59:28 - CU SIGN TAVERN ON THE GREEN. SCENES OF CUSTOMERS EATING OUTDOORS AT TAVERN ON THE GREEN CIRCA 1959 00:59:34 - AERIAL MANHATTAN CENTRAL PARK 00:59:42 - CENTRAL PARK ZOO. CU CAGED WHITE BEAR. MS MONKEY ENTERTAINING CHILDREN AT THE ZOO. 00:59:51 - GARMENT DISTRICT, MEN PUSHING & PULLING CARTONS BOXES CLOTHING ETC..CLOTHES BEING TRANSPORTED THROUGH THE STREETS OF NEW YORK CITY 01:00:25 - INTERIOR FACTORY SEAMSTRESSES MAKING CLOTHING AT SEWING MACHINES GARMENT WORKERS 01:00:38 - FASHION SHOW MODELS WEARING EVENING GOWNS 01:00:43 - COMMUTERS GOING INTO SUBWAY STATION 8TH AVENUE UP TOWN 01:00:55 - RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC CIRCA 1959. CU SPEED LIMIT SIGN 60 MPH. CU COMMUTER WITH HEAD IN HAND WAITING OUT TRAFFIC JAM. CU HAND ON STEERING WHEEL FLICKING ASHES OF CIGARETTE ONTO FLOOR OF CAR 01:01:04 - MS TRAFFIC JAM CARS MERGING 01:01:06 - CU WOMEN IN BACK STREET BEING DRIVEN LEANS UP TO TALK TO DRIVER, DRIVER KEEPING HIS COOL WAITING TRAFFIC JAM RUSH HOUR 01:01:18 - LS NIGHT SHOT HARBORFRONT SKYLINE SEEN FROM ACROSS HARBOR 01:01:29 - VARIOUS SCENES MANHATTAN AT NIGHT GREAT WHITE WAY TIMES SQUARE FLASHING ELECTRONIC BILLBOARDS 01:01:39 - WALTER WINCHELL SPEAKING ABOUT THE "NIGHT PEOPLE" 01:01:45 - NIGHT SCENES. TIMES SQUARE, BROADWAY. ELECTRONIC BILLBOARDS. THE GREAT WHITE WAY. MONTAGE BROADWAY SHOW SIGNS : SOUTH SEAS IN CINERAMA, THE MUSIC MAN, THE WORLD OF SUSIE WONG (WILLIAM SHATNER STARRED IN THIS SHOW), A MAJORITY OF ONE, 01:02:13 - THEATER GOERS ENTERING THEATER OPENING NIGHT 01:02:24 - WALTER WINCHELL EXITING THEATER, GETTING INTO CAB, PAUSES & ADDRESSES CAMERA LEANING ON CAR DOOR 01:02:48 - CU SARNI'S SIGN & STREET BELOW 01:02:51 - CU WALTER WINCHELL INSIDE SARDI'S AT TABLE TALKS ABOUT TONIGHT'S NEW SHOW 01:03:11 - MAITRE D' SEATING PATRON'S AT SARDI'S ON WALL CARICATURES HANG 01:03:26 - MS PRETTY BROADWAY ACTRESS MAKES EYES TOWARD WINCHELL WHO THEN JOINS THEM 01:03:43 - MONTAGE FAMOUS LANDMARK RESTAURANTS ON BROADWAY LINDY'S, ROTH'S GRILL, STORK CLUB, EL MOROCCO, 01:03:48 - MS CUSTOMERS GOING INTO RESTAURANT DOOR MAN DRESSED IN TRADITIONAL MIDDLE EASTERN COSTUME 01:03:53 - MS COUPLE KISSING ON BENCH SLOW ZOOM BACK REVEALS THEY ARE MODELS IN ART CLASS ARTISTS DRAWING IN CHARCOAL ON EASELS COOPER UNION ART SCHOOL CU DRAWINGS. CU WALTER WINCHELL DRAWING 01:04:42 - SCENES OF YOUNG MAN RUNNING THROUGH STREETS PHYSICAL TRAINING BOXER FIGHTER PUGILIST. JOGGER. 01:04:57 - LOW ANGLE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN MARQUEE, SIGN READING: ORTIZ VS LANE. FERNANDES VS REDL. BOXING MATCHES 01:05:02 - EXTERIOR CARNEGIE HALL. CU POSTERS BILLBOARDS FOR CONCERT AT CARNEGIE HALL LEONARD BERNSTEIN DIRECTOR PHILHARMONIC SEASON 1959-1960 01:05:25 - NIGHT MONTAGE CHINATOWN 01:05:41 - NIGHT SCENES GREENWICH VILLAGE. VILLAGE BARN. (HF-YTV) 01:05:46 - CU JAZZ BAND PLAYING IN NIGHTCLUB 01:05:51 - FOLK SINGER PLAYING ACOUSTIC GUITAR IN VILLAGE CLUB CIRCA 1959. 01:05:55 - CU BARKING DOG IN NIGHTCLUB 01:05:57 - BEATNIK TEENS HANGING OUT IN COFFEE HOUSE NIGHTCLUB LISTENING TO FOLK MUSIC HOOTENANNY BEATNIK LIFESTYLE VILLAGE PARTY ARTSY BOHEMIANS DIGGING THE SCENE 01:06:59 - CU WOMAN SWEEPING FLOORS IN BUILDING MAINTENANCE WORKER 01:07:06 - SCENES OF WORKER CLEANING CHEWING GUM OFF STREETS IN FRONT OF BROADWAY THEATERS. RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL. SPECIAL STEAM MACHINE USED TO CLEAN STREETS 01:07:17 - MS RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL MARQUEE, STREET CLEANER WORKING IN FRONT 01:07:22 - DAWN, NEW YORK CITY SUN RISING, LONE MAN WALKING DOWN EMPTY CITY STREET (WALTER WINCHELL) 01:07:32 - MAN PAUSES IN FRONT OF U. N. UNITED NATIONS 01:07:37 - LS TILT DOWN UNITED NATIONS BUILDING 01:07:50 - CU VARIOUS NATION'S FLAGS FLYING IN WIND 01:07:55 - MS WALTER WINCHELL TURNS AROUND ADDRESSES CAMERA 01:08:00 - NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE HARBORFRONT WATERFRONT SEEN FROM ACROSS HARBOR 01:08:02 - MAN WALKING ACROSS WIDE CITY STREET TO 1950s CAR 01:08:21 - NARRATOR CONCLUDES
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1959
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: V-1421