New York City Greenwich Village Travel Trip Vintage 1940s to 1960s Films DVD

Description: Please read & note: This is a Rights holding DVD created & produced by me and is not factory made or sealed. I strive to produce the best DVD's possible from the sometimes VERY old Public Domain material. Films that are public domain are unpreserved and not professionally re-mastered. I re-master all of my films myself to the best possible quality achievable. My DVDs are not the quality of todays Modern DVDs or Bluray discs. If you are looking for this kind of quality then these discs are not for you. Please note this when purchasing, but also know that all of the films are very watchable. All pictures are actual screen captures from the DVDs. To keep my prices as low as possible all my DVDs are delivered in plain paper DVD sleeves and the DVDs title will be labeled on the back of the DVD envelope. (See picture) All of my DVD's come with a menu for easy film selection. Total runtime of this DVDs is 62 minutes. Item specifics are: Film 1: Skyline New York (1956) COLOR Runtime 25 Minutes The First minute or so of this film is really chopped up but after that it is fine. Trans World Airlines sponsored travelogue on 1950s New York City. Great overview of the many things you can do when you're in New York! Two girl friends go to New York to visit one of the girl's family. The places visited are The Empire State Building, Rockefeller Plaza, Broadway, etc etc but there's some emphasis on unusual spots too. Shotlist of this film is: Passengers climb stair ladder to board TWA plane; two girls wave goodbye at top of ladder; low-angle of parents waving back from behind fence. TWA airplane taking off runway; TWA plane with American flag painted on its side, in air flying over clouds in blue sky. Inside TWA airplane in 1950s. High-angle looking down on TWA plane flying above the Grand Canyon. Stewardess or Flight Attendant delivers two girls their meal on TWA flight as they look out plane window excitedly. TWA airplane flies over New York City; NYC skyline in background; VS aerials of New York City skyline in 1950s; plane lands on runway at Idlewild New York International Airport (now John F. Kennedy International). Man stands on airport traffic control platform, hands on hips, with large letters spelling "New York" along railing, and large clock behind him reads 12:05. Two 1950s young women stop out of TWA airplane onto stair ladder and wave white gloved hands excitedly to someone off in distance; MS man outside in beige suit waves arm; clock behind him on wall of building reads 12:09; man walks out of frame past sign "Transient Pilots Register Port Authority Operations." Passenger of TWA flight exit plane by way of staircase. Man greets brunette sister with her blonde friend by their side. Audio track narration "The usual brother sister bit with Fran, and a good close-up look at the girlfriend from the West. Very nice." Pan over New York City skyline from a ferry in the Hudson River. Statue of Liberty. Castle Clinton in New York City, camera pans to downtown New York City skyline. Pan up New York City Stock Exchange building on Wall St. Views on and around Wall St. and Broad St. in New York City. Trinity Church Trinity Church graveyard. Great shot from ferry boat of Manhattan while passing beneath the Brooklyn Bridge on the East River. One man and two young women look at NYC skyline from ferry and pass the U.N. Building. VS U.N. Building; pan across U.N. member states flags outside of U.N. building. VS inside U.N. building. Shot from ferry on Hudson looks up at underside of George Washington Bridge; George Washington Bridge connection New Jersey and Washington Heights in Manhattan. West Side Drive with 1950s cars and George Washington Bridge in background. Grant’s Tomb and Riverside Church. High-angle pan up Park Avenue of the 1950s. New York city policemen on horseback in parade up Fifth Avenue. Parade on Fifth Avenue with Trans World Airline (TWA) building in background. High School cheer squad does choreographed dance in parade on Fifth Avenue. Fifth Ave and East 40th St. in 1950s midtown Manhattan; pan to NYC Public Library; busy NYC sidewalks in midtown. Two young women walk into Tiffany’s & Co; camera pans to Tiffany’s name engraved in building. Various famous stores in 1950s New York City: Best & Co., Peck & Peck. Two young women happen upon Atlas statue; camera pans up Atlas statue at foot of RCA building?. Rockefeller Center. Pan up RCA building. Atop RCA building on roof terrace. Comical shot of girls face behind rooftop binoculars atop RCA buildings; the binoculars look like a smiling mask over the girls face. Pan over Manhattan facing north from atop RCA building; Central Park and all of upper west and east side all the way over to the Queensborough bridge. Shot from atop RCA building pans from Queensborough bridge to U.N. and the Chrysler Building; then pans to the Empire State Building. St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Ave. Cathedral of St. John the Divine in uptown Manhattan. Temple Emanu-el Synagogue in NYC. Young woman on phone with her mother seated on bed. College flags for Cornell and Princeton hang on wall. Blonde girl in blue dress says into phone "Cultural? You mean like libraries and museum and such. Well no not yet. Culture is scheduled for a little later. Tomorrow I’m booked for fun…" Packed beach at Coney Island. Man and woman arm in arm walk over bridge to Coney Island beach; woman’s dress shoots up from air coming out of vent on bridge, woman jumps in surprise; audio track narration: "There’s a surprise a minute at Coney Island." Spinning Wheel ride at amusement park "George C Tilyou’s Steeplechase the Funny Place"; MS with camera on ride looking back at woman on mans lap spinning in circles on ride; VS of ride. Parachute jump ride carnival ride. Coney Island Ferris Wheel. Coney Island’s Cyclone roller coaster. Couple in horse drawn carriage riding through central park; VS Central Park. 1950s kinds playing baseball on field in Central Park. Animals in Central Park zoo cages: gorillas, polar bear, giraffe walking out of brick building; lions (in the Bronx Zoo). Little blonde girl about 3 years old in petting zoo looks at bird perched on rail several inches from her. Metropolitan Museum of Art; inside museum. Pan down Radio City Music Hall Building. Yankees baseball game against Atlanta Braves. 1950s NY Giants football game Belmont Park Racetrack horserace. Ice skating at Radio City. Madison Square Garden; ice hockey game, New York Rangers versus Maple Leafs. 1950s boxing match. Time square neon lights at night. Ads for Lockheed and TWA. Couple slow dancing while neon signs of 1950s nightclubs flash over shot: Latin Quarter, Versailles, El Morocco, Copacabana. Close up loud speaker; audio track "The departure of flight 912, Paris, Rome, Cairo. All aboard please." Passengers climb staircase to board TWA plane. Woman waves good bye with white gloved handed; family behind railing waves goodbye smiling; woman kisses hand goodbye and cries. Large TWA plane on runway crosses over highway underpass; TWA plane takes off. Aerial shot of Statue of Liberty. TWA plane in flies in air with southern tip of downtown Manhattan skyline visible below. Nice montage of NYC tourist views, landmark buildings and sites: Brooklyn Bridge; Rockefeller Center, United Nations, Times Square with large Pepsi ad. Release Date: 1956 Entered the Public Domain: 1985 　　 Film 2: RFD Greenwich Village (1969) COLOR Runtime 11 Minutes Groovy Cotton + Greenwich Village = Shagadelics. Quite possibly the only fashion travelogue you'll ever see, this gem mixes shots of Greenwich village with uh, "natives" (read bad actors) pretending to be "bohemian" while wearing the up-to-the-minute cotton Nehru Jacket and hideous green print shirt from such fashion dynamos such as Glen Of Michigan. Similar to Greenwich Village Sunday. Release Date: 1969 Entered the Public Domain: 1998 　　 Film 3: Greenwich Village Sunday (1960) Faded COLOR Runtime 12 Minutes Exploration of the colorful counterculture of Greenwich Village in the early 1960s. Narrator: Jean Shepherd. This laid-back early-60s film shows us street life in Greenwich Village on a Sunday. We see such things as sidewalk art displays, folksinging in the circle, and beatniks reciting poetry. This definitely brings back a memorable time and place, giving us a glimpse of the birth of the 60s counterculture. One rather silly aspect of the film is a prim woman in a striped dress and little white gloves who appears in almost every scene and reacts to things as if she was on Mars (though with a smile on her face). Lois Nettleton was the prim lady in this film. Release Date: 1960 Entered the Public Domain: 1979 　　　 Film 4: Amateur film: Greenwich Village, New York Snowstorm, and Coney Island (1944) SILENT COLOR Runtime 14 Minutes A delightful SILENT home movie, in color, of activities in and around New York City in 1944. It starts out at a Greenwich Village art fair---where the art is just as dreadful and any in a modern art fair! Then we see a brief glimpse of a thoroughfare along the East River---almost devoid of cars---gasoline rationing! We then go to Coney Island where we see many soldiers and sailors relaxing at the beach. In the odd custom of those days, men dressed up to go to an amusement park---three-piece suits and ties to go to Coney Island? Then it's back to Greenwich Village after a blizzard. All in all, a fascinating film---the color makes it almost like stepping back into time. Release Date: 1944 Entered the Public Domain: 1973 I claim ownership and rights to this media. All the films on this DVD have been researched and are copyright free or the copyrights have expired due to non renewal.

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