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Film, Video Panorama from Times Building, New York

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Title

  • Panorama from Times Building, New York

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) [Frame: 1078] up 6th Avenue to the Hippodrome Theatre at 43rd Street [1866]. 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 [3676].

Names

  • McCutcheon, Wallace, camera.
  • American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
  • Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • United States : American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1905.

Headings

  • -  One Times Square (New York, N.Y.)
  • -  New York (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc
  • -  Skyscrapers--New York (State)--New York
  • -  Keith-Albee's New York Hippodrome

Genre

  • Actualities (Motion pictures)
  • Silent films
  • Short films
  • Nonfiction films

Notes

  • -  H59310 U.S. Copyright Office
  • -  Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 11Apr1905; H59310.
  • -  Duration: 2:04 at 15 fps.
  • -  Camera, Wallace McCutcheon.
  • -  Biograph production no. 2998.
  • -  Paper print shelf number (LC 2119) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
  • -  Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
  • -  Photographed April, 1905. Location: Broadway and 7th Avenue, between 42nd and 43rd Streets, New York, N.Y.
  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
  • -  Sources used: Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 237; Biograph production logs, v. 2, p. 50.
  • -  Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
  • -  35 mm viewing print renumbered: FEA 9829 to FYA 0886.
  • -  35 mm dupe neg pic renumbered: FPE 5560 to FZA 2335.

Medium

  • viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (40 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
  • viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 100 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.
  • dupe neg pic 1 film reel of 1 (40 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
  • dupe neg pic 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 100 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.
  • paper pos 1 roll of 1 (ca. 100 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm.
  • paper pos (copy 2) 1 roll of 1 (ca. 100 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • FLA 5133 (viewing print)
  • FYA 0886 (viewing print)
  • FRA 2862 (dupe neg pic)
  • FZA 2335 (dupe neg pic)
  • Box 0909B (paper pos)
  • Box 5534C (paper pos, copy 2)

Repository

  • Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 00694370

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Chicago citation style:

Mccutcheon, Wallace, Camera, American Mutoscope And Biograph Company, and Paper Print Collection. Panorama from Times Building, New York. United States: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1905. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/00694370/.

APA citation style:

McCutcheon, W., American Mutoscope And Biograph Company & Paper Print Collection. (1905) Panorama from Times Building, New York. United States: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/00694370/.

MLA citation style:

Mccutcheon, Wallace, Camera, American Mutoscope And Biograph Company, and Paper Print Collection. Panorama from Times Building, New York. United States: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1905. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/00694370/>.