- Title: V-1437
- Summary: NYC TRANSPORTATION: CONTEMPORARY FOOTAGE OF NEW YORK CITY TRANSPORTATION. MOST FOOTAGE SHOT WITH SLOW-MO EFFECT.
- Description:00:00:30 - SUBWAY DOOR OPENS CROWD STEPS OUT. WALKS UP STAIRS TO 42ND STREET EXIT. 00:01:08 - TWO FOLKS WAITING FOR SUBWAY CAR. SUBWAY CAR RUSHES BY 00:01:28 - SUBWAY CAR FLIES BY, POV FROM INSIDE TUNNEL. 00:02:13 - HIGH ANGLE AS SUBWAY CAR COMES TO CLOSE & PEOPLE STEP OUT. 00:02:44 - HIGH ANGLE CROWD ASCENDS STAIRWAY. 00:03:33 - PEOPLE DESCEND AND ASCEND STAIRWAY. 00:03:51 - CU OF FOLKS WALKING UP STAIRWAY. 00:04:38 - HIGH ANGLE SUBAWAY CAR EMPTIES & FOLKS CLIMB STAIRS. TYPICAL NEW YORK CROWD. GRIM, UNEMOTIONAL FACES. 00:06:00 - GROUND LEVEL VIEW OF PEOPLE PASSING. 00:06:18 - SLOW MOTION PHOTOGRAPHY OF PEOPLE GETTING OUT OF SUBWAY. CARS ARE OFTEN PAINTED RED. 00:08:43 - CROWD ASCENDS STAIRS. 00:09:15 - FROM PLATFORM AS FOLKS WALK DOWN TO TRAINS. 00:09:30 - FOLKS PASSING THROUGH BANK OF TUNRSTILES IN BOTH DIRECTIONS. 00:11:20 - VIEW FROM END OF WALKWAY DOWN PLATFORM AS CROWD WALKS TOWARD CAMERA. POSTERS FOR MOVIES & BROADWAY SHOWS LINE SUBWAY STATION: "THE SISTERS ROSENSWEIG" AND "CATS". THIN BLACK MAN IN BLACK HAT PLAYS THE FLUTE. READING FROM MUSIC STAND. STREET MUSICIAN. 00:12:15 - CU FLUTE MAN. 00:12:33 - PORTLY WHITE SAXOPHONIST PLAYS ON PLATFORM LEANING AGAINST COLUMN. PLAYS "THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND". HIS CASE IS OPEN FOR CHANGE AS FOLKS PASS BY. 00:13:52 - LONG LINE OF PEOPLE WAIT TO USE ESCALATOR. 00:14:15 - 34TH STREET SUBWAY STATION AS TRAIN PULLS IN. 00:14:45 - TRAINS ON EITHER SIDE OF PLATFORM OPEN DOORS. PEOPLE TRANSFERRING FROM ONE TO THE OTHER. FAMILIAR "DEE- DAH" TONE SOUNDS INDICATING DOOR ABOUT TO CLOSE. SUBWAY CARS PULL OUT. 00:15:33 - RIDING ESCALATOR GOING UP. MAN AHEA GLANCES BACK SEVERAL TIMES. 00:16:10 - GOLDEN METAL COLUMNS ON MEZZANINE LEVEL. 00:17:00 - STREET LEVEL WITH BUSES PULLING UP. SUNLIGHT HITTING BUILDINGS. WOOLWORTH'S STORE. MADISON SQUARE GARDEN ENTRANCE OF PENN STATION AT 34TH STREET 00:18:13 - BRIEF SHOT OF "NATURAL" FOOTAGE. 00:18:15 - CU POLICE LIGHTS ON TOP OF POLICE CAR. CAMERA PULLS BACK TO SEVENTH AVENUE. PENN STATLER HOTEL AKA HOTEL PENNSYLVANIA IN BKGD. 00:18:48 - YELLOW TAXIS PASS BY. 00:19:34 - "OLIVER SAMUELS" ON MARQUEE OVER MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. TAXIS LINED UP TO PICK UP PASSENGERS 00:19:47 - MOUTH TO ENTRANCE TO PENN STATION. CROWD ASCENDS STAIRS AND ESCALATOR. "SLOTZILLA" AD FOR TRUMP PLAZA OVERHEAD. 00:20:25 - CAMERA FOLLOWS CROWD NORTH ON 7TH AVE. 00:21:43 - DESCENDING ESCALATOR INSIDE PENN STATION. 00:22:18 - MORNING RUSH HOUR VOLUME OF PEOPLE 00:23:30 - CAMERA FOLLOWS PEOPLE UP STAIRS TO 7TH AVENUE. SUNLIGHT GLARE. 00:24:18 - FILTERED, PROCESSED EFFECT. CAMERA PANS IN CIRCLES OUTSIDE THE PENN STATION ENTRANCE. 00:26:36 - NEWSPAPER SELLER YELLING "USA TODAY". BLACK MAN HAWKING PAPERS. 00:28:06 - FACING NORTH CROSSING 7TH AVENUE. 00:28:30 - PENN STATION ENTRANCE WITH TAXIS, BUSES & PEDESTRIANS. CU BUS PARKED. 00:30:15 - BUSSES FROM SOUTH SIDE OF AVENUE. 00:30:33 - FILTERED EFFECT FACING NORTH ON AVENUE AS PEDESTRIANS HEAD NORTH & BOARD BUS. 00:32:46 - CU PASSING BUS. 00:33:35 - SBARRO AND GYRO STOREFRONTS IN BKGD. 00:34:22 - YOUNG MAN IN SHIRT & TIE & RED TURBAN. 00:34:45 - ELECTRIC MADISON SQUARE GARDEN MARQUEE READS: "1993 N.Y. YANKEES", ALONG WITH AUGUST DATES. 00:35:47 - DENSE TRAFFIC OF TRUCKS AND CABS. 00:38:45 - BACK AT PENN STATION, TRAIN TRAFFIC KEEPS POURING OUT. 00:39:40 - VIEW FROM SIDEWALK LOOKING UP AT WALL WHICH READS: "PENN STATION" 00:43:02 - BLACK HAWKER: "NEED A CAR?".HANDING OUT PINK CARDS. 00:44:13 - YOUNG LADIES GETTING IN TAXIS OUTSIDE PENN. CU DOOR OPENING TO CAB. 00:45:35 - MONTAGE OF TRAFFIC, PEDESTRIANS, BUSES AND TAXIS. 00:47:00 - FAMILY LOADS BAGS INTO CAB. 00:47:31 - AMBULANCE, EMERGENCY VEHICLE PASSES. 00:48:17 - MAN IN WHITE SHIRT AND CAP HAILS CABS FOR FOLKS. 00:48:30 - INTERIOR OF PENN STATION. CAMERA HEADS TOWARDS LONG ISLAND RAILROAD ENTRANCE & TO TICKET AREA ON WAITING LEVEL. PASSING STOREFRONTS. TOWARDS THE 1,2,3 SUBWAYS. TO TICKET BOOTH FOR SUBWAY. TURNSTILES. 00:51:44 - ON TRAIN PLATFORM THE #2 SUBWAY APPROACHES. STOPS AT PLATFORM. 00:53:06 - ANCIENT RAILING AT END OF PLATFORM. DARKENED TUNNEL. SUBWAY TRAIN PASSES, STOPS AT PLATFORM. 00:55:00 - BLURRY TRAINS PASS. UPSIDE DOWN, SIDEWAYS CAMERA ENTERS TRAIN. 00:55:45 - VIEW FROM FRONT OF SUBWAY CAR AT TRACKS IN DARK TUNNEL. PASSES STATION PLATFORM. 00:57:36 - NEARLY EMPTY CAR. 00:57:53 - VIEW FROM FRONT OF TRAIN TRAVELLING THROUGH TUNNEL. 00:59:25 - TRAIN STOPS AT STATION. CONDUCTOR ANNOUNCES: "CENTRAL PARK NORTH". (PROBABLY 115TH STREET STATION). 01:01:15 - TRAIN EMERGES ONTO ELEVATED RAILROAD. "EL" 01:01:45 - EXTERIOR OF POSSIBLY THE BRONX. 01:03:29 - VIEW FROM TRAIN LOOKING OVER AN OVERPASS AT STREET. BUS PARKED ON STREET. 01:05:05 - TRAIN CONTINUES THROUGH THE SOUTH BRONX. TENEMENTS & SOMEWHAT BOMBED OUT APARTMENT BUILDINGS. "FREEMAN ST." SIGN READ AS TRAIN PASSES. 01:07:00 - VIEW FROM PEDESTRAIN OVERPASS BEHIND CHAINLINK FENCE AS SUBWAY TRAIN SLOWLY PASSES UNDERNEATH. BRIDGE IN DISTANCE. 01:10:11 - CROWDED CITY STREET, HIGHWAY TRAFFIC. 01:11:25 - UNDERGROUND SUBWAY. ESCALATOR TO STREET. SIGN READS "DELANCY STREET". DOWNTOWN MANHATTAN. 01:11:33 - CU SIGN "ATTENTION CUSTOMERS: MANHATTAN BRIDGE PROGRESS REPORT." . 01:11:57 - CU SUBWAY TRAIN APPROACHING PLATFORM. VARIOUS RACES WAITING ON PLATFORM. AMERICAN MELTING POT 01:13:02 - INTERIOR OF SUBWAY. PANNING TO PLATFORM. HOMELESS BLACK MAN LIES AGAINST POST. 01:14:10 - INSIDE SUBWAY CAR, YOUNG ASIAN KIDS IN ORANGE T- SHIRTS. STRAP HANGING. WOMAN READING NEWSPAPER. 01:16:31 - VIEW FROM END OF 42ND STREET PLATFORM AS TRAIN PASSES. BLURRY.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1993
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1990s
- File Name: V-1437