1939 NEW YORK CITY NEWSREEL "THE WONDER CITY" MANHATTAN WALL STREET HUDSON RIVER 72332D
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- Опубліковано 11 тра 2015
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This late 1930’s short gives a glimpse into the city of New York prior to the First World War. The film was edited by Eugene Castle; the founder of Castle Films. Notable changes in the city are captured including the traditional double decker buses which were utilized until the 1950’s. Also much of the avenues were one ways until the early 1960’s. The film opens with a cruise liner approaching the New York City harbor (:18). An aerial shot of the black and white city skyline follows (:24). Lady Liberty stands erect on Ellis Island (:29). The intersection of Broadway and Bowling Green (:38) lead to images of Manhattan’s lower end (:42). Trinity Church is situated in the financial district of the city; opened in 1846 (:59). Federal Hall appears (1:07) opened in 1842. The two structures here are the Federal style building from 1703 and the current Greek Revival-style which was completed in 1842. City Hall (1:36) and the New York City Prison (1:48) follow. The camera pans over a bridge which the prisoners traverse to criminal courts (1:52). The Brooklyn bridge hangs over the city’s skyline (1:58). The Bowery (2:07); a neighborhood in the southern parts of NYC, was mostly impoverished during the 1920’s and 30’s. The area hit a revival in the 1990’s. Shops in the lower east side follow (2:15). This portion of the city is captured under construction as roads were being widened and houses were rebuilt (2:19). The Essex Market was once a hub for independent pushcart peddlers and open air markets (2:22). Mott Street in Chinatown follows (2:28). Traditional ceremonies are captured as a large dragon fidgets and flicks through crowds (2:36). Evening scenes in Chinatown show traditional dancing with swords (2:53). The Washington Square Arch; a Tuckahoe marble arch in Washington Square Park, was opened in 1892 (2:59). Art studios are captured in Greenwich Village; later to be known as the center of the 1960’s counterculture movement (3:04). The Flatiron Building (3:36) was one of the first skyscrapers, erected in 1902. A young couple marries at the Church of the Transfiguration in Manhattan (3:50). The Pennsylvania Station is captured in Beaux-Arts architecture (3:59). It was demolished in 1963. The Empire State Building was erected on the site of the old Waldorf Astoria Hotel in 1930 (4:13). The Chrysler Building stands at 405 Lexington Avenue (4:38). The Public Library (4:59) precedes a man feeding the notoriously friendly city pigeons (5:04). St. Patrick’s Cathedral is known as one of the most beautiful cathedrals opened in 1879 (5:22). A sea of New York City worshippers follows (5:27). A three minute walk from here is the Rockefeller center (5:42). Lady dancers rehearse on the rooftop of Radio City Music Hall (5:52). Ice skating is captured in the Rockefeller Rink Plaza (6:08) as well as on the frozen lake of Central Park (6:21). The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the largest art museum in the western hemisphere comprised of over two million works (6:50). Exhibits are captured within the Museum of Natural History (6:59). Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus follows (7:24). Riverside drive is seen after recently having improvements made upon it (7:29). This road lines the Hudson River (7:30). General Grant’s National Memorial (7:42) is the final resting place of Ulysses S. Grant and his wife; Julia Grant. The Riverside Church in Manhattan is captured with its 72 melodious bells ringing out (7:52). Harlem is captured (8:03). During this time period, Harlem was considered to be a place of rich artistic African American culture and activism (8:07). The area was ablaze with poetry, art and jazz. The animated youth of Harlem are pictured (8:16). The large White Plains Hospital follows which got its start as a small four-room hospital in 1893 (8:28). The camera flies over the Washington bridge (8:38). This is the only bridge running over the Hudson River. The scene fades to night with New York’s neon lights (8:58).
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This is the original 1938 release, offered in Castle's catalogs through 1947.
In the revised/updated 1947 edition [available through 1957], the kid with the watermelon (at 8:22) was eliminated, and most of the narration for the "Harlem" sequence was reworked and re-recorded.
2:20 if you look on there left you will see the first ever vibe check, paving the way for many more, 80 years later.
child discipline? is that what "vibe check" means?
Left out: The Iconic Holland Tunnel, named in memoriam to its designer, the late Clifford Holland, and first of its kind with motor traffic ventilation. It opened in 1927. Should have been included in this video.
Thank you for sharing this footage, I love seeing the cars of that day, imagine too, haircuts for only 15 cents, Hmm, I think I'll have to start negotiating better with my barber ☺
Thank you for sharing and for your thought too, my friend! 😄
Wow. My grandmother was 12 and my great grandmother 36.
This was first of four shorts for Castle Films about New York City. Castle remade three more in 1947, 1959, and 1969.
“New Yawk, New Yawk, was a helluva town, the Bronx is up but the Batteries down, New Yawk New Yawk...... With all its problems, still an amazing place!
"The people ride in the hole in the ground, NEW YORK NEW YORK, ITS A HELLUVA TOWN!!!!!!!!!"
For anyone who has travelled in China, and much else of Asia, coming to any big US city, however impressive they were 100 years ago, you feel like you're returning to a prior century.
So many of the beautiful old lampposts and street signs were still around through the 60's. And I remember 15 cent slices of pizza in 1963, 64. Went to 20 cents by 65,66 I think.😄✌🏻🇺🇸
If they could see NY now they would be shocked 🗽would love to have seen 🗽 in her bronze tone.
My great grandmother told me she didn't start turning the famous patina green color until around 1912. When erected in 1886 she was a teenager and said it was a beautiful brown copper color, and she climbed the stairs to the crown and said you could actually lean out of the window openings in that era. It's funny that I finally made it to New York in 2019, and I could barely find the Empire State building bucause of all the other tall buildings. NYC was surely much different during my great grandmothers era!!!!!!!! 🗽
Life was more simple in them days.🇺🇸🗽🇵🇷
PHARAOH J-ROD yeah no traffic
and that same simple acceptance of a way of life led, inexorably, to the American exceptionalism of today and the disruptive impact that attitude has had on the independent development of countries across the globe.
Yea especially if you found a city already build when arriving there...yes im saying new york city was not build by Americans, who then? That i dont know but i would imagine a more advanced civilization, definitely a people much smarter and taller
More difficult too.
hot zigity this fella talks about 1939 new york , like it will change one day ,
Orchard Street Lower East Side, Manhattan, NYC.🗽🇺🇸🇵🇷
New Yawk New Yawk, a city so nice they hadda name it twice!👍🏻😄
Noo Yawk, Gotham,The Big Apple, the Algonquin Round Table, E.B. White's three New Yorks...the City That Never Sleeps.
Anyone have any idea where I can find a newsreel released in December 1939? I ask because I need it for a project.
1:37 cityhall, 'old ny', impossible accomplishment, 4:00 Penn station, Let's Destroy it! 5:39- Kronos- proudly championed by the Elites on their general energy building,-energy from whale blubber, deforestation, coal, oil, nuclear, g5 radiation, etc. re-set' arcitecture holds answers.
West side high way looked good
Fascinating as I was born in NYC in 1939. I noticed that the streets were immaculate and devoid of trash. Almost all New Yorkers were more formally dressed with almost all men wearing a hat. Did you get fined if you didn't wear one? Yes, the Harlem segment was jaw dropping racial stereotyping.
The wealthy and touristy areas were devoid of trash in the 1930s and 40s, yes, just like they are today. But outside of those city centers, there was plenty of trash laying in the gutter, just like there is today. Let’s keep in mind that the city of NYC was dumping all of its municipal waste in the Atlantic Ocean until 1934.
Despite better cooperation between the Police and Sanitation Departments, new ordinances and regulations were not systematically followed, and the “streets of New York City remain an untidy, if not disgraceful, condition.” - Report of the Chairman at the meeting of March 23, 1933, Committee of 20 on Street and Outdoor Cleanliness, New York Academy of Medicine Archives.
And all those buildings were astoundingly tall and crowded together in 1939; nowhere else like it anywhere back then. Now the tallest structures in the world are no longer located in the USA. Things change.
On the contrary they were not crowded together like they are now. In midtown there were many low rise buildings between the skyscrapers, almost all are gone now replaced with 50 + floor `scrapers.
@@paullewis2413 You know, it's true about the skyscrapers standing out back then. Even I, born in '56, can remember when you could view those tall iconic structures from just about anywhere in the city.
Now everything is so jumbled together that nothing can stand out. And the few that do are just horrible looking.
Art Deco, I think '39 was the pinnacle of "The New York Skyline".
I never knew there were orientals living in Chinatown and colored people in Harlem.
The Museum was free =$0🗽😎
You and your crossdressing friends are the parasites of the world...enjoy the rest of your day
Clothing people wore was not all that different then when I grew up in the 1950s
Eno Beano much more tailored and formal clothing than today’s mass produced and comfortable wear
Interesting that the word 'peculiar' has changed. Nowadays one would never refer to Chinese culture with that word.
They definitely meant it in a negative/passive aggressive way. Microaggressions like that we’re far more socially acceptable than they are today
It was America a long time ago,now it's rapidly becoming a third world country,but every nation and civilization has its day ,we had ours.
NYC certainly has a feel of 3rd World now as far as the people in the streets and on the subway are concerned. Used to love NYC now I don`t care if I never see it again. Glad I knew it in much better times.
What really bothers me is that we're basically giving this country away and destroying ourselves from within.
Immigrants are what is and always has made New York, New York, if you have a problem with it talk to lady liberty. My ancestors came through Ellis island, and unless you’re Native American I’m guessing yours did too.
NYC always had large immigrant populations, this video is mostly talking about Manhattan business areas and they are nicer today then in the video for sure. More parks, more orderly, factories long gone replaced with food and venues and offices and apartments.
Only too true. One can:t look at nyc as it was then wirhout tears in one's eyes. America srood out then as a utopia. Today, a cesspool.
At 5:50, they appear to be dancing near to the edge of a roof with no railings.
They weren't idiots back then trying to take a risky selfie lol
a shave 10cents a bowl soup 15 cents with rolls movies 11 cents and $40 a month rent 2BR apt.in the Bronx
Average annual income $1,300. Unemployment rate near 20% (This was the Great Depression.) Life expectancy 60.8.
Prices keep going up because the government keeps flooding the system with money. So sometimes when people talk about prices in the old days it seems like a paradise. It wasn't. Money was scarce.
@@Akatz712 That is how the system works, people want to take loans to start a business or buy a house or a car so the banks lend money that the government prints and hands over to the banks. Is it perfect? No, but it sure works.
That lady just slaps that poor kid at 2:20. Wow!
Yeahhh... what’s so bad about that....keep your hands off of stuff
No mention of the five families? 😛
not until 1957
I like you really
hello there once was a statue. similar to liberty. in the island of Rhodes Greece and disappeared. missing. anyone there in New York have know anything ,, echetleos
@8;20,,, Eye is soooo glad my college edumacation lemme unnerstan dem big
ol'words....e.g., ""Never prosperous...but always seemingly happy...! "'@8:22 "They""
keeeep smiling through...whatever "'they"' do !"
Dat nice announcin' man quasi-balanced preconceived notions vis a' vis 'racial' lines.
Lou from N.Y.U.
Yup! Pretty racist!
Yup, and unfortunately, very acceptable back then!!!!!!!!
What about the people that America leads to suffer Worrying about other people coming from other countries👎🔥👺👺👺👺🔥🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
GFY
No hat's lol!!!
Yeah...the "Wonder" city.
Maybe it was 100 years ago if you were a yahoo from Hooterville.
1939 1940 ss
"... to the opressed of other lands"? In 1939? Guess that doesn't include European Jews. But still, it's a good look.
Those days were so racist.