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00:46:02 19.85 |
NARRATOR'S INTRODUCTION
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00:46:33 50.82 |
AERIAL DAY NEW YORK SKYSCRAPERS HARBOR PIERS VARIOUS ANGLES CITY SKYLINE
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00:47:20 97.82 |
VARIOUS SCENES EARLY MORNING STREETS OF MANHATTAN EARLY MORNING TRAFFIC, FEW PEDESTRIANS
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00:47:32 109.82 |
SCENES OF COMMUTERS COMING INTO MANHATTAN ON THROUGHWAYS, CONGESTED MORNING COMMUTE TRAFFIC SLOWLY MERGING DOWNTOWN GREAT 1950s CARS
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00:47:59 136.82 |
SUBWAY STATION, SUBWAY TRAIN COMING INTO STATION
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00:48:02 139.82 |
CU PASSENGERS PUSHING THEIR WAY ONTO SUBWAY CAR COMMUTERS. SUBWAY LEAVING STATION
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00:48:12 149.82 |
CU COMMUTERS SLOWLY MAKING THEIR WAY UP SUBWAY STATION STEPS RIVER AVE.
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00:48:15 152.82 |
CITY STREET SCENES TRAFFIC COMING & GOING, COFFEE SHOP, PEDESTRIANS CITY LIFESTYLE
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00:48:18 155.82 |
MONTAGE CITY MODES OF TRANSPORTATION: SUBWAYS, BUSES, TRAINS
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00:48:25 162.82 |
CITY STREET SCENES STREETS PACKED WITH PEDESTRIANS
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00:48:32 169.82 |
WS GRAND CENTRAL STATION TRAIN STATION CIRCA 1959. Or is it Penn Station?
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00:48:39 176.82 |
OUT OF TOWN NEWSPAPER STAND CUSTOMERS BUYING MORNING PAPERS, ECU VARIOUS CITIES NEWSPAPERS, MAN SELECTING BIRMINGHAM NEWSPAPER
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00:48:48 185.82 |
NEW YORK CITY STREET SCENES MORNING COMMUTE
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00:48:54 191.82 |
ECU STREET CORNER BLINKING DON'T WALK
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00:48:57 194.82 |
MS NO PARKING 8 AM TO MIDNIGHT STREET SIGN PANS BACK SHOWING 1950s CARS PARKED ON CITY STREET
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00:49:06 203.82 |
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
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00:49:25 222.82 |
HIGH ANGLE NEW YORK CITY MORNING COMMUTE
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00:49:30 227.82 |
ECU FINGER DIALING ROTARY TELEPHONE
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00:49:32 229.82 |
ECU SWITCHBOARD, OPERATOR PLUGGING IN LINES
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00:49:39 236.82 |
ECU TELEPHONE OPERATOR. MS SWITCHBOARD OPERATORS PLUGGING IN PHONE LINES
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00:49:47 244.82 |
HS BUSY CROWDED OFFICE WORKERS WORKING IN CUBICLES
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00:49:50 247.82 |
LOW ANGLE SKYSCRAPER
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00:49:54 251.82 |
MS MANY WINDOW CLEANERS SUSPENDED BY ROPES HIGH ABOVE THE STREET CLEANING WINDOWS
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00:49:59 256.82 |
POV WINDOW CLEANER LOOKING DOWN TO STREET BELOW
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00:50:02 259.82 |
CU GROUP OF WINDOW CLEANERS. POV FROM ABOVE LOOKING AT CLEANER JUST BELOW
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00:50:11 268.82 |
VARIOUS ANGLE CONSTRUCTION BUILDING SITES IN MANHATTAN
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00:50:33 290.82 |
MS OLD BUILDING BEING RAZED TORN DOWN DEMOLISHED
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00:50:36 293.82 |
MS TILT UP LENGTH OF NEW SKYSCRAPER
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00:50:44 301.82 |
CU CRANE DIGGING OUT FOUNDATION. FILLING DUMP TRUCK WITH DIRT CONSTRUCTION SITE
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00:51:09 326.82 |
MONTAGE RESIDENTS WALKING PET DOGS ON MORNING WALK. SMALL LAP DOG, POODLE, IRISH WOLFHOUND, BOXER
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00:51:40 357.82 |
MONTAGE DEPARTMENT STORES, LORD & TAYLOR, MACY'S,
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00:51:48 365.82 |
MS SPECIALITY SHOP WINDOW DISPLAY OF SKULLS
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00:51:54 371.82 |
CU HUMAN SKULLS ON DISPLAY IN WINDOW
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00:51:57 374.82 |
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
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00:52:06 383.82 |
CU ROBERT ABELS ANTIQUE SHOP MINIATURE ARMORED STATUE GUARDS ENTRANCE TO SHOP. CUSTOMER WALKING OUT OF SHOP WITH PURCHASE
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00:52:12 389.82 |
MS SALESWOMAN IN SHOP WINDOW MAKING DISPLAY WITH MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS RITA FORD MUSIC BOXES WRITTEN ON WINDOW PUTTING ZITHER IN WINDOW DISPLAY
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00:52:22 399.82 |
CU SIGN HANGING ON DRUG STORE "LOVE POTIONS"
PANS BACK TO CUSTOMERS EXITING PHARMACY |
00:52:30 407.82 |
MS TROPICAL FISH AQUARIUM STOCK CO. STORE.
CU SIGN ADVERTISING SEA HORSES. |
00:52:39 416.82 |
MS FACADE VAN CLEEF AND ARPELS JEWELERS, JEWELRY STORE. CU JEWELRY DISPLAY. MS CUSTOMER BEING FITTED WITH "EMPRESS JOSEPHINE'S" TIARA
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00:53:04 441.82 |
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!
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00:53:30 467.82 |
MS JEWELRY CASE DISPLAYING EXPENSIVE JEWELRY
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00:53:37 474.82 |
CU WORKER FILLING BUCKETS WITH CRUSHED ICE FISH MARKET CU FRESHLY CAUGHT FISH BEING THROWN ON SCALE WEIGHING FISH
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00:53:46 483.82 |
LS FACADE FULTON FISH MARKET, NEW YORK CITY SCENES FROM FISH MARKET WORKERS WEIGHING PACKING FISH IN ICE FOR SHIPMENT LOADING ONTO REFRIGERATOR TRUCKS
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00:54:06 503.82 |
SCENES FROM NEW YORK HARBORFRONT. CU LOIDE-URUGUA SHIPS FROM RIO DE JANEIRO LOADING FREIGHTERS WITH CRATES OF FISH SHIPMENTS
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00:54:28 525.82 |
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.
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00:54:43 540.82 |
AERIAL OVER FRENCH LINER MOORED IN HARBOR OTHER SMALLER SHIPS FOLLOWING LINER OUT OF HARBOR
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00:54:52 549.82 |
COMMERCIAL PLANE TAKING OFF BOAC
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00:55:05 562.82 |
SCENES FROM NEW YORK AIRPORT LAGUARDIA PLANES LANDING
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00:55:26 583.82 |
HS NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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00:55:28 585.82 |
SCENES FROM N. Y. PUBLIC LIBRARY CU LIONS GUARDING ENTRANCE & INSCRIPTION
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00:55:37 594.82 |
INTERIOR LIBRARY CIRCA 1959
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00:55:40 597.82 |
MAN BROWSING OVER CARD CATALOG CARRYING DRAWER OF CARDS TO TABLE
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00:55:43 600.82 |
POV WALKING THROUGH LIBRARY SHELVES & SHELVES OF BOOKS
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00:55:53 610.82 |
CU YOUNG MAN SELECTING BOOK FROM SHELF
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00:55:56 613.82 |
HS TABLES IN LIBRARY FILLED WITH READERS
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00:56:05 622.82 |
SCENE FROM THE BOWERY SECTION OF MANHATTAN HOMELESS MEN LEAVING SHELTER. DARK SIDE OF THE CITY
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00:56:11 628.82 |
MS HOMELESS MAN SITTING ON SIDEWALK STREET BEGGING FOR MONEY
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00:56:14 631.82 |
MS HOMELESS MAN SLEEPING ON SUBWAY GRATE IN MANHATTAN. DERELICT, BUM. UNFORTUNATE
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00:56:16 633.82 |
CU BOWERY BUM DRUNK SMOKING CIGARETTE STAGGERING
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00:56:24 641.82 |
MS TWO HOMELESS MEN SHARING BOTTLE ON CITY STREET GETTING DRUNK DROWNING THEIR SORROWS
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00:56:29 646.82 |
MS HOMELESS MAN ORGANIZING HIS BELONGINGS
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00:56:31 648.82 |
MS CRAZY HOMELESS MAN SITTING ON CURB SHAKING FISTS TALKING TO HIMSELF
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00:56:36 653.82 |
AMBULANCE ARRIVING AT HOSPITAL BELLEVUE ORDERLIES TAKING STRETCHER OUT OF AMBULANCE INTO HOSPITAL
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00:56:48 665.82 |
SCENES FROM WALL STREET FINANCIAL AREA OF MANHATTAN
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00:56:59 676.82 |
HS FLOOR OF THE EXCHANGE MS READING TICKER TAPE USUAL PANDEMONIUM ON STOCK EXCHANGE FLOOR
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00:57:14 691.82 |
EXTERIOR TILT DOWN TRINITY CHURCH
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00:57:32 709.82 |
MS SMALL CEMETARY BESIDE CHURCH. CU GRAVESTONES ROBERT FULTON, ALEXANDER HAMILTON, CU GRAVES FROM REVOLUTIONARY WAR
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00:58:09 746.82 |
CU LUNCH BOX BEING THROWN INTO GARBAGE CAN, MISSES & FALLS ON GROUND LITTERING
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00:58:13 750.82 |
CU PIGEONS EATING BITS OF BREAD THROWN ON GROUND CU SQUIRREL BEING HAND FED SQUIRREL EATING FROM MAN'S HAND
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00:58:18 755.82 |
CU YOUNG BOY FEEDING BIRD FROM HIS HAND
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00:58:19 756.82 |
MS OLD MAN SITTING AT JACK KEMPS RESTAURANT TOOTHLESS OLD MAN GUMMING HIS LIPS
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00:58:24 761.82 |
CU YOUNG WOMAN SIPPING FROM STRAW AT SODA SHOP
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00:58:27 764.82 |
CU MADE UP YOUNG GIRLS EATING AT SODA SHOP FALSE EYELASHES
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00:58:33 770.82 |
CU BARTENDER POURING MUG OF BEER FROM TAP
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00:58:36 773.82 |
AERIAL OVER CENTRAL PARK
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00:58:40 777.82 |
SCENES FROM CENTRAL PARK FAMILY PICNIC ON GRASS CHILDREN PLAYING ROW BOATS IN LAKE BOY WEARING SAILOR CAP
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00:58:46 783.82 |
MONTAGE RESIDENTS TAKING NAPS IN PARK GREAT SHOT OF SLEEPING BAREFOOT MAN
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00:58:55 792.82 |
CU SIGN IN PARK READING "THIS LAWN OPEN FOR PASSIVE USE" CUTS TO COUPLE KISSING ON LAWN
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00:59:04 801.82 |
MS OLDER COUPLE TAKING RIDE AROUND PARK IN HANSOM HORSE DRAWN CARRIAGE
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00:59:10 807.82 |
MS TWO MEN HORSEBACK RIDING IN CENTRAL PARK
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00:59:12 809.82 |
BOYS PLAYING BASEBALL GAME IN CENTRAL PARK
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00:59:15 812.82 |
BOYS FISHING IN CENTRAL PARK
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00:59:19 816.82 |
COUPLES ROWING IN CENTRAL PARK ROW BOATS
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00:59:23 820.82 |
ELDERLY MEN PLAYING CHESS CHECKERS IN CENTRAL PARK
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00:59:28 825.82 |
CU SIGN TAVERN ON THE GREEN. SCENES OF CUSTOMERS EATING OUTDOORS AT TAVERN ON THE GREEN CIRCA 1959
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00:59:34 831.82 |
AERIAL MANHATTAN CENTRAL PARK
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00:59:42 839.82 |
CENTRAL PARK ZOO. CU CAGED WHITE BEAR. MS MONKEY ENTERTAINING CHILDREN AT THE ZOO.
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00:59:51 848.82 |
GARMENT DISTRICT, MEN PUSHING & PULLING CARTONS BOXES CLOTHING ETC..CLOTHES BEING TRANSPORTED THROUGH THE STREETS OF NEW YORK CITY
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01:00:25 882.82 |
INTERIOR FACTORY SEAMSTRESSES MAKING CLOTHING AT SEWING MACHINES GARMENT WORKERS
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01:00:38 895.82 |
FASHION SHOW MODELS WEARING EVENING GOWNS
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01:00:43 900.82 |
COMMUTERS GOING INTO SUBWAY STATION 8TH AVENUE UP TOWN
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01:00:55 912.82 |
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
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01:01:04 921.82 |
MS TRAFFIC JAM CARS MERGING
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01:01:06 923.82 |
CU WOMEN IN BACK STREET BEING DRIVEN LEANS UP TO TALK TO DRIVER, DRIVER KEEPING HIS COOL WAITING TRAFFIC JAM RUSH HOUR
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01:01:18 935.82 |
LS NIGHT SHOT HARBORFRONT SKYLINE SEEN FROM ACROSS HARBOR
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01:01:29 946.82 |
VARIOUS SCENES MANHATTAN AT NIGHT GREAT WHITE WAY TIMES SQUARE FLASHING ELECTRONIC BILLBOARDS
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01:01:39 956.82 |
WALTER WINCHELL SPEAKING ABOUT THE "NIGHT PEOPLE"
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01:01:45 962.82 |
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,
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01:02:13 990.82 |
THEATER GOERS ENTERING THEATER OPENING NIGHT
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01:02:24 1001.82 |
WALTER WINCHELL EXITING THEATER, GETTING INTO CAB, PAUSES & ADDRESSES CAMERA LEANING ON CAR DOOR
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01:02:48 1025.82 |
CU SARDI'S SIGN & STREET BELOW
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01:02:51 1028.82 |
CU WALTER WINCHELL INSIDE SARDI'S AT TABLE TALKS ABOUT TONIGHT'S NEW SHOW
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01:03:11 1048.82 |
MAITRE D' SEATING PATRON'S AT SARDI'S ON WALL CARICATURES HANG
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01:03:26 1063.82 |
MS PRETTY BROADWAY ACTRESS MAKES EYES TOWARD WINCHELL WHO THEN JOINS THEM
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01:03:43 1080.82 |
MONTAGE FAMOUS LANDMARK RESTAURANTS ON BROADWAY LINDY'S, ROTH'S GRILL, STORK CLUB, EL MOROCCO,
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01:03:48 1085.82 |
MS CUSTOMERS GOING INTO RESTAURANT DOOR MAN DRESSED IN TRADITIONAL MIDDLE EASTERN COSTUME
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01:03:53 1090.82 |
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
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01:04:42 1139.82 |
SCENES OF YOUNG MAN RUNNING THROUGH STREETS PHYSICAL TRAINING BOXER FIGHTER PUGILIST. JOGGER.
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01:04:57 1154.82 |
LOW ANGLE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN MARQUEE, SIGN READING: ORTIZ VS LANE. FERNANDES VS REDL.
BOXING MATCHES |
01:05:02 1159.82 |
EXTERIOR CARNEGIE HALL. CU POSTERS BILLBOARDS FOR CONCERT AT CARNEGIE HALL LEONARD BERNSTEIN DIRECTOR PHILHARMONIC SEASON 1959-1960
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01:05:25 1182.82 |
NIGHT MONTAGE CHINATOWN
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01:05:41 1198.82 |
NIGHT SCENES GREENWICH VILLAGE. VILLAGE BARN. BEATNIKS.
(HF-YTV) |
01:05:46 1203.82 |
CU JAZZ BAND PLAYING IN NIGHTCLUB
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01:05:51 1208.82 |
FOLK SINGER PLAYING ACOUSTIC GUITAR IN VILLAGE CLUB CIRCA 1959. FOLKIES. FOLK SCENE.
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01:05:55 1212.82 |
CU BARKING DOG IN NIGHTCLUB
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01:05:57 1214.82 |
BEATNIKS HANGING OUT IN COFFEEHOUSE. COFFEE HOUSE, CAFE. BOHEMIANS.
NIGHTCLUB LISTENING TO FOLK MUSIC HOOTENANNY BEATNIK LIFESTYLE VILLAGE PARTY ARTSY BOHEMIANS DIGGING THE SCENE, FOLKIES, PRECURSOR TO HIPPIES. |
01:06:59 1276.82 |
BEATNIK SEQUENCE ENDS. CU WOMAN SWEEPING FLOORS IN BUILDING MAINTENANCE WORKER
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01:07:06 1283.82 |
SCENES OF WORKER CLEANING CHEWING GUM OFF STREETS IN FRONT OF BROADWAY THEATERS. RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL. SPECIAL STEAM MACHINE USED TO CLEAN STREETS
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01:07:17 1294.82 |
MS RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL MARQUEE, STREET CLEANER WORKING IN FRONT
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01:07:22 1299.82 |
DAWN, NEW YORK CITY SUN RISING, LONE MAN WALKING DOWN EMPTY CITY STREET (WALTER WINCHELL)
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01:07:32 1309.82 |
MAN PAUSES IN FRONT OF U. N. UNITED NATIONS
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01:07:37 1314.82 |
LS TILT DOWN UNITED NATIONS BUILDING
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01:07:50 1327.82 |
CU VARIOUS NATION'S FLAGS FLYING IN WIND
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01:07:55 1332.82 |
MS WALTER WINCHELL TURNS AROUND ADDRESSES CAMERA
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01:08:00 1337.82 |
NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE HARBORFRONT WATERFRONT SEEN FROM ACROSS HARBOR
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01:08:02 1339.82 |
MAN WALKING ACROSS WIDE CITY STREET TO 1950s CAR
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01:08:21 1358.82 |
NARRATOR CONCLUDES
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