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Historic travel US, [produced by] A2ZCDS.com

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Historic travel US

videorecording DVD

[produced by] A2ZCDS.com

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Welcome to New York! In this compilation of turn of the century documentary shorts witness the thrilling events and scenes that gave The City its vibrant image a century ago. Includes early films of the Statue of Liberty, the New York Police and the Harbor Police at work, Buffalo Bill's Wild West parade, construction workers in peril, the demolition of the Star Theatre, the elevated railroad, the Brooklyn Bridge and New York subway and the arrival of immigrants at Ellis Island

Disc #1: -- 1. Statue of Liberty / Thomas A. Edison, Inc., Sept.3, 1898 (50 sec.) -- 2. Sleighing scene / Thomas A Edison, Inc., Dec.16, 1898 (50 sec.) -- 3. A street Arab / Thomas A Edison, Inc., April 21, 1898 (29 sec.) -- 4. New York Police parade, June 1st, 1899 / Thomas A. Edison, Inc., June 10, 1899 (2 min., 48 sec.) -- 5. Pilot boats in New York harbor / Thomas A. Edison, Inc., April 22, 1899 (50 sec.) -- 6. Automobile parade / Thomas A Edison, Inc., Feb.6, 1900 (1 min., 55 sec.) -- 7. What happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City / Thomas A Edison, Inc., Aug.21, 1901 (1 min., 20 sec.) -- 8. Beginning of a skyscraper / American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., April 18, 1902 (27 sec.) -- 9. Buffalo Bill's wild west parade / American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., July 2, 1902 (1 min., 55 sec.) -- 10. A perilous proceeding / American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., April 16, 1902 (1 min., 22 sec.) -- 11. Skating on lake, Central Park / American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., Aug.25, 1902 (56 sec.) -- 12. Star Theatre / American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., April 18, 1902 (1 min., 58 sec.) -- 13. At the foot of the Flatiron / American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., Nov.2, 1903 (2 min., 21 sec.) -- 14. Emigrants [i.e. immigrants] landing at Ellis Island / Thomas A. Edison, Inc., July 24, 1903 (2 min., 23 sec.) -- 15. Excavating for a New York foundation / American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., Nov.25, 1903 (2 min., 30 sec.) -- 16. Fireboat "New Yorker" in action, excerpts / Thomas A. Edison, Inc., May 20, 1903 (2 min., 1 sec.) -- 17. New York City "ghetto" fish market / Thomas A. Edison, Inc., May 20, 1903 (2 min., 56 sec.) -- 18. New York Harbor police boat patrol capturing pirates / Thomas A. Edison, Inc., May 10, 1903 (2 min., 12 sec.) -- 19. Opening of new East River bridge, New York / Thomas A. Edison, Inc., Dec.28, 1903 (3 min., 31 sec.) -- 20. Panorama of Blackwell's Island, N.Y. / American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., May 20, 1903 (2 min., 26 sec.) -- 21. Panorama of Riker's Island, N.Y. / Thomas A. Edison, Inc., May 20, 1903 (2 min., 18 sec.) -- 22. Panorama water front and Brooklyn Bridge from East River / Thomas A. Edison, Inc., May 20, 1903 (2 min., 31 sec.) -- 23. Pennsylvania tunnel excavation / American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., Aug.30, 1903/1905? (3 min., 25 sec.) -- 24. Sky scrapers of New York City, from the North River / Thomas A. Edison, Inc., May 20, 1903 (3 min., 25 sec.) -- 25. White Wings on review / Thomas A. Edison, Inc., May 20, 1903 (3 min., 55 sec.)Disc #2: -- 1. Broadway & Union Square, New York / American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., July 8, 1903 (25 sec.) -- 2. Delivering newspapers / American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., April 24, 1903 (56 sec.) -- 3. Elevated railroad, New York / American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., Feb.24, 1903 (1 min., 10 sec.) -- 4. Lower Broadway / American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., June 13, 1903 (1 min., 36 sec.) -- 5. Move on / Thomas A. Edison, Inc., Oct.27, 1903 (1 min., 45 sec.) -- 6. N.Y. Fire Department returning / American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., May 19, 1903 (42 sec.) -- 7. New York City dumping wharf / Thomas A. Edison, Inc., May 20, 1903 (1 min., 23 sec.) -- 8. Panorama from the tower of Brooklyn Bridge / American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., Sept.12, 1903 (38 sec.) --9. Panorama of Flatiron building / American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., June 4, 1903 (1 min., 2 sec.) -- 10. Parade of "exempt" firemen / American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., Oct.1, 1903 (1 min., 31 sec.) -- 11. Parade of horses on Speedway / American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., July 8, 1903 (55 sec.) -- 12. Sorting refuse at incinerating plant, New York City / Thomas A. Edison, Inc., May 20, 1903 (1 min., 45 sec.) -- 13. Opening the Williamsburg Bridge / American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., Feb.11, 1904 (57 sec.) -- 14. Departure of Peary (and the) "Roosevelt" from New York / American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., July 28, 1905 (4 min., 16 sec.) -- 15. Funeral of Hiram Cronk / American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., May 25, 1905 (3 min., 54 sec.) -- 16. Interior N.Y. subway, 14th St. to 42nd St. / American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., June 5, 1905 (6 min., 26 sec.) -- 17. Panorama from Times Building, New York / American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., April 11, 1905 (2 min., 7 sec.) -- 18. Bargain day, 14th Street, New York / American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., April 20, 1905 (1 min., 24 sec.) -- 19. Arrival of emigrants (i.e. immigrants), Ellis Island / American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., May 9, 1906 (3 min., 30 sec.) -- 20. The skyscrapers of New York / American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., Dec.11, 1906 (11 min., 56 sec.)

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