Movie Footage of New York City in 1939

JSpira · 06-02-2013, 12:34 AM

Fantastic footage and interesting backstory

Through the Lens of a Tourist: New York City in 1939

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It looks like footage from a feature film but it’s a home movie tken by a French tourist in the summer of 1939. Color film and home movies were first taking off when Jean Vivier, a Frenchman, sailed from Marseille to New York on the SS Normandie for a vacation and started shooting what he saw.

In the course of his trip, he visited tourist sites that are still popular today, ...

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ptack · 06-02-2013, 01:29 PM

Some of those taxis looked awesome. Air was none to clean though.

keepittrill · 06-03-2013, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by ptack

Some of those taxis looked awesome. Air was none to clean though.

Science tells us that our air has never been dirtier than it is now...

glachhman · 06-03-2013, 12:06 PM

That was interesting, thanks for the share.

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