Panorama from Times Building, New York / American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

McCutcheon, Wallace, camera.

American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

New York at the turn of the century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Keith-Albee's New York Hippodrome.

Commercial buildings--New York (State)--New York.

Commercial buildings.

Skyscrapers--New York (State)--New York.

Skyscrapers.

Streets--New York (State)--New York.

Streets.

New York (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.

New York (N.Y.).

Times Square (New York, N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 min.).

Place of Publication:

United States : American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1905.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

Summary:

The view is from the top of the then newly-erected Times Building, at a height of approximately twenty stories. The film opens with a vertical pan, going from the street below up to the sky. The photographer then makes a pan to the north over the tops of the buildings from Bryant Park, south of 42nd Street (behind the New York Public Library) up 6th Avenue to the Hippodrome Theatre at 43rd Street. A marquee on the theater reads "A Yankee Circus On Mars." The camera continues to rotate toward 44th and 45th Streets between 6th and 7th Avenues, until coming to rest looking directly north up Times Square to 46th Street, where Broadway (left) and 7th Avenue (right) diverge again.

Notes:

Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 11Apr1905; H59310.

Original duration: 2:04 at 15 fps.

Previously published as DVD.

OCLC:

701797928