Educational film guide (1948)

917.471-917.5 EDUCATIONAL FILM GUIDE NEW YORK — Continued New York's first skyscraper was the Flatlron building. We see the Woolworth, the Chrysler and the E3mplre State buildings. The Municipal building overshadows the New York City Hall. We see Essex Street— city retail market, a wholesale vegetable market and the Fulton flsh market on Old South Street. The lower east side of New York ia crowded — especially where the Bowery and Chinatown are located. Housing projects like the Queensbridge housing group have helped this situation some. There are medical centers such as Welfare Island in the East river, Columbia Medical Center on the Hudson, New York Hospital and Cornell University's Center. We see the east and west side express highways Greenwich Village artists exhibit their work at Washington Square. Moving up Fifth Avenue we come to the New York Public library, then to St Patrick's Cathedral and Rockefeller Center. Gardens and skating at Radio City are seen. Views of Park Avenue follow. Views in and around Central Park, Including the Zoo and the Metropolitan Museum of art Up Riverside Drive we see the Soldiers and Sailors monument. Grant's Tomb, and the Riverside Memorial Church. There are views of Columbia University. Up to Harlem with its colored population There are shots of children at play f rounds, and of the beach at Coney Island, 'he film closes with day and night views of the busy Times Square section NEW YORK CALLINGl rev ed NYCen 1947 22min sd color loan 917.471 el-Jh-sh-c-adu!t Takes the audience on a grand tour of New York City. Scenes of the Hudson River and the arrival at Grand Central Ternilnal preface sequences on such subjects as a harbor tour, Wall Street, Empire State Building, Radio City Music Hall, Coney Island, Times Square at night, parks, museums, zoos and many other meccas for the visitor "Beautiful color. Well organized and presented. Excellent sound effects. Fast moving. Interesting shots." California ROCKEFELLER CENTER. RockefellerCen 1945 20min sd (This is American) loan 917.471 Jh-sh-ad May also be purchased from Pictorial Films for $60 Produced by RKO Pathe An armchair tour of behind-the-scenes activities at Rockefeller center. It offers a complete inspection of this amazing city-wlthina-city, literally from top to bottom, from its carpenter shop three levels below street level to its observation roofs 850 feet above the street and includes the gardens, art program. Radio city music hall, NBC's television and radio studios and many other features which comprise the largest privately owned business and entertainment center in the world STORY OF A CITY: NEW YORK. Simmel 1946 20mln sd $98; also color $170 917.471 el-Jh-sh-ad Guide A pictorial explanation of the historic and economic causes for the emergence of New York as one of the world's largest cities and of its vital relation to the rest of America THIS IS THE BOWERY. TFC lOmln sd (Passing parade) apply 917.471 Jh-sh-c-adult Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer "This is a story of life along New York's Bowery, a street of despair, peopled by men who have lost their grip. "At the Bowery Mission, presided over by Charles St. John, himself once a 'cast-off', the men are fed, clothed and helped along the road to rehabilitation. "The subject is handled with tact and understanding." Advisory committee 9 1 7.48 Pennsylvania PENNSYLVANIA. Dudley 1947 lOmin sd (This land of ours) $28.50; also color $85 917.48 el-jh-sh-ad Presents the historical, geographical, industrial and scenic highlights of the state NEW YORK PARADE. TFC lOmln sd apply 917.471 el-Jh-sh-c-adult Produced by Columbia Pictures Corp "A panorama of New York's bridges, churches, skyscrapers, streets, transportation and homes. "Depicts particularly well, relationships of individuals through casual acquaintances in a great metropolis. The mannerisms and conventions of New York people are well shown. Excellent composition, editing and photography. "Recommended for elementary geography and social studies in senior high school." Advisory committee NEW YORK— THE WONDER CITY. Castle 1939 lOmin sd $17.50 917.471 ei-Jh-sh-e-trade-adult Also available in a silent version for $8.75 Shows New York's famed harbor. Miss Liberty, lower Broadway, the historic Sub-Treasury where George Washington took his oath of ofBce as first President, Wall Street, inside and outside the Stock Exchange, the Bowery, the push cart markets of the lower Elast Side, exotic China Town, Old Trinity, the Tombs, Fifth Avenue and St Patrick's Cathedral on Easter morning, Central Park in summer, spring and winter, air panoramas of the 102 story high Empire State Building and the towering Chrysler Building, Radio City, Haxlem, the new Riverside Drive and George Washington Bridge 917.49 New Jersey NEW JERSEY JOURNEY. Esso 30min sd color loan 917.49 el-Jh-sh-ad Transports you to the exact spot where Washington crossed the Delaware before the battle of Trenton. You visit his headquarters at Morristown and the site of many other events in American history 917.5 Southeastern states NEW SOUTH. EBP 1932 15mln si $24 917.5 el-Jh-sh QuIde Traces the rapid progress of the New South: its agricultural products — cotton, tobacco, rice, early vegetables, fruits, nuts; raw materials — marble, aluminum ore (bauxite), coal, limestone, iron; and water power for the paper, cotton -goods and other industries. Birmingham, Mobile, New Orleans, and Miami are shown NEW SOUTH. Forum ed MOT 1945 17min sd $55 917.5 Jh-sh-c-trade-adult-forum "The film leads oCf with some of the old traditions of the South, such as big southern mansions, fine cooking, and the theatre. From here on the picture contrasts the South from Just after the Civil War through the reconstruction period until the turn of the century, with the highly industrialized and more prosperous North. . . 520