Overview
- Description
- Footage of three ethnic neighborhoods in New York City. People and vehicles on the streets of Chinatown. Storefront signs in English and Chinese. Men read newspapers that have been pasted onto the side of a building. Similar treatment of the Jewish section of New York City: storefronts and signs in Yiddish and English. A group of uniformed Jewish Boy Scouts take the boy scout oath then salute. People come out of a synagogue after services. Shots of the exterior of the synagogue. More street scenes of the neighborhood, shop signs, and an outdoor market. Similar again of the Italian neighborhood.
- Film Title
-
Metropolis 1939
- Duration
- 00:10:52
- Date
-
Event:
1939 July
Production: 1939
- Locale
-
New York, NY,
United States
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
March of Time, Inc.
Camera Operator: Charles Gilson
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Outtakes.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Mixed
- Time Code
- 01:20:51:00 to 01:31:43:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2729 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2729 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2729 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2729 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 2729 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2729 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2729 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2729 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Copyright
- Public Domain
- Conditions on Use
- To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the film excerpts from the National Archives and Records Administration in July 2004.
- Note
- The mixing script is available in departmental files.
- Copied From
- Video Master; b/w
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 4273
Source Archive Number: 200 MTT 710 FF,GG,HH - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:45:34
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