1960s NEW YORK CITY & EMPIRE STATE PROMOTIONAL MOVIE "ALL ABOUT NEW YORK" MD51564
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- The 1960s Technicolor film by Owen Murphy, “All About New York” takes it viewer through the Big Apple and the Empire State. It opens with a view of the Empire State Building (mark 00:45) in New York City before sharing glimpses of a fisherman at Montauk Point, the Catskills, Coney Island, Lake Placid, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the United Nations, and Times Square. “New York can be many things,” the narrator assures the viewer, before touching on the state’s history and the roles of such explorers as Henry Hudson and Samuel de Champlain. Next is an aerial view of New York Harbor (mark 02:52) and a look at Manhattan, followed with a visit to Fort Ticonderoga (mark 04:22), as the narrator explains its importance to the region. Villages, towns, and cities began to grow in the area, the narrators tells us, as he explains how the Erie Canal, completed in 1825, helped transport goods between Buffalo and Albany (mark 06:21) and opened new avenues of prosperity. That was followed by the Mohawk & Hudson Railroad (mark 07:15), the first railroad built in the state and one of the first in the country. From there the film takes on a series of factory and manufacturing scenes promoting industry in the state that eventually grew into vast industrial centers (mark 09:00) and brought skilled laborers to New York. The screens flashes upon various trades including rug makers, silversmiths, glass makers, and fashion designers while the narrators praises each career. There is a visit to a “modern” food processing plant (mark 12:49) in Canajoharie, New York, and scenes of men and women working with everything from copper to leather to telephones. The film shows rows of telephone operators and military officers huddled around radar screens as the narrators explains such communication devices are made throughout the state, and how “IBM electronic wonders” are changing the face of industry (mark 15:52). “It’s understandable why New York became the industrial leader of the nation,” says the narrator, partly due to the high wages available in the state. Gigantic cargo ships fill the screen starting at mark 17:08 and we learn of New York as an import and export hub and NYC as a financial center following scenes from the New York Stock Exchange (mark 18:10). The camera pans the city skyline starting at mark 19:00 - a sight most people think of when New York is mentioned - then moves to apple orchards and dairy forms as well as many of the state’s scenic wonders like Seneca Lake (mark 22:12), Genesee River Gorge (mark 22:21), and Niagara Falls (mark 22:37). From grade schools to universities, the film touches on the many learning opportunities in the state, including Fordham University, Hamilton College, and the United States Military Academy West Point. The film nears its end with a look at New Yorkers visiting their respective places of worship, “where they find strength with the faith of their choice.”
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Wow - I enjoyed this video - made me homesick for the state I was born into, raised and lived most of my life. I have moved away now, but I miss the change of seasons, the beauty of the Hudson River Valley, the Taconic Hills, the charming small towns etc. thanks for sharing it. I spent many a happy time exploring the state - especially the many attractions of the Hudson River Valley area. I am grateful for the opportunities I had!
I miss the change of seasons, too. The deciduous forests. The cold snap of Halloween nights.
A fine film of an era long past. Thanks for finding this rare Technicolor production!
Just wow. NY was the leader in everything. Best city to live in the world at that time.
*If you were lucky to be born white. Dont forget that at the other side of propaganda, NY had many problems at that time...
Now it is the leader on the way to the bottom of the barrel. Especially by Woke, Liberal, Progressives.
boy how things change in 75 years
1:54
Have gay evenings in Times Square lost their excitement?
True, NY is cleaner, safer, and more expensive now. You couldn't afford a cardboard box in a subway terminal.
Austerity killed NY for the working class. Now it’s a rich man town
@@williamerazo3921
Capitalism killed it. Just like the rest of the country.
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Should be titled now. When NEW YORK CITY & The EMPIRE STATE was the Best!
So high homicide rates are "the best"?
A a New Yorker, i enjoyed it. From the cars and fashions, it was filmed sometime in the late fifties. Much of it is outdated. It mentioned Jamaica raceway. I lived a few blocks away, the raceway was demolished sometime in the early 1960s.
Exactly what our family apple orchard looked like in the 60s. You can still pick apples there, it's now known as Peach Hill Park in Poughkeepsie and it's open to the public!
Originally released in 1959, during "New York's Year Of History". New York International Airport [17:28] {also known as "Idlewild Airport"} was renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport at the end of 1963.
The Times Square footage around 18:00 definitely dates to 1959. The Bond zipper was then operated by WCBS-TV's news department, then controlled by CBS News. The font showing was from Naxon Telesign, and would be used mostly thereafter up to the point it was turned off for good in 1977 (except for 1960-65 when it was off more times than on, and 1967-70 when another Naxon type variant, the one used around the Allied Chemical Tower, was also put in use). That's not counting the massive Pepsi advertisement atop that, or the reference to "Charlie Dooley" on the Admiral zipper (a name in use at the time as part of the city's anti-litter campaign).
What you folks don't know, this rare print has the variable density WESTERN ELECTRIC soundtrack as were used in many of the AT&T films. This film is also a carbon copy of This is New Jersey, also produced by Owen-Murphy Productions, two years prior to this one. Check the mint Technicolor print that Periscope also has (it came from the film's writer John Cunningham)
When New York State and City valued work like forestry, manufacturing, buying and selling. Now it is the Welfare State that promises prosperity without gasoline, diesel fuel, aviation fuel, heating oil, natural gas, propane gas and coal.
Back when NYC was prosperous;
Before it became "Fun City."
Before you risked your life to ride the subway.
Before the city almost went bankrupt.
And before the time of... C.H.U.D...
NYC is prosperous. The subway may be unpleasant, but it's not dangerous. The City is not bankrupt. You have a deeply incorrect impression of NYC.
@Gman 2060 lol, wHite or wHole wHeat?
@@jacksons1010 NYC almost went bankrupt. You have a deeply incomplete understanding of the city's history.
@@thomasjoyce7910 You have a deeply incomplete knowledge of who I am and my personal history. I lived there in the "bankruptcy" years, Mr. Know-It-All. I'm talking about NOW, not decades ago. Living in the past much???
NICE VIDEO, THANK YOU!!!
And just look at how much better this area is as a result of mankind's finest custodian efforts.
Such a vast improvement.🙄🙄😏
I’m sure it’s quite a bit better than the trailer park that you undoubtedly live in. 😂
How I would love to go back to the year I was born, 1965. Get me out of this disgusting, God forsaken country we're in today!!
True but the Founders didn't even think of taking magical time travel trips back into the past. They understood that action was needed THEN, as it is NOW. So, we will FIGHT ON!
Imagine: creation, work, progress, and skill are highly valued, and done in the USA, and the sexes are defined as male and female.
Makes one wonder how many of those industries went overseas.
Why does it make one wonder ?
You're remarkably uninformed about US trade relations.
Everyone's gangsta at Lake Placid during the winter.
But during the summer... they're running and screaming while being chased by a big hungry crocodile.
Run, cows, run! Because Betty White has... something... planned for you. And you won't like it. Not a bit.
Flasher coats sure were in abundance.
Its a clone to the 1957 film THIS IS NEW JERSEY, made by the same company, same director, Paul Cohen who is still around, and printed in beautiful Technicolor. According to Mr. Cohen, these films were filmed on 35mm film. 16mm prints were made for school and non-theatrical use, offered free-on-loan, from AT&T.
@Gman 2060 If you have something bad to say keep it to yourself! That is a very disgusting statement!
@Gman 2060 GROW UP!
Yeah.. but Jersey sucks lollll
@@mitchdakelman4470 sounds like your against the 1st amendment
Dad passed this past year at the age of 98. Thank you for your kind words!
Back when New York was civilized.
Narrated by John Cannon- best known at the time as the announcer on "I'VE GOT A SECRET" {"Now, WINSTON- America's #1 filter cigarette- brings you America's #1 panel show, 'I'VE GOT A SECRET'! STARRING GARRY MOORE!!!!"}.
John Cannon is narrator on several other Owen-Murphy Productions of the 1950s including THIS IS NJ, THE TOWN AND THE TELEPHONE, and a Pennsylvania Railroad promo film OPENING A NEW FRONTIER.
He sounds like Pernell Roberts
The america will want to go back 60 years ago.
I like this
Oh the optimism! Clearly, we should not see the past with a romanticized filter, but perhaps the pendulum has swung too far toward the opposite direction. The video’s optimism and hope is so refreshing when compared with the cynicism that permeates the current zeitgeist. It is also sad to see that this state was once so proud of its manufacturing industries and the people it supported, but not proud enough to fight to sustain most of these industries.
If Henry Hudson could see New York today he would shit a brick!!
This film is from 1959 (New York's "Year of History"), not the 1960s.
It is so obvious from the fashion and the cars.
That Seneca Falls, NY Mfr. of pictures tubes was Sylvania.
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The Empire State building. At the foot of which there was quite a mess for NYC sanitation to deal with after King Kong... well, i'm sure you already know what happened...
Funny you mentioned that. When you see the big ape laying there one can't help but think. How are they going to get him out of there.
Wow - when the U.S. actually *made* things. Fascinating.
"Gay" time in NYC has a much different meaning today.
I thought the same when it came up…😂 So I guess I‘m not the only one who smiled…
Miss it
Yes, there used to be a skating rink somewhere in the City called the GAY BLADES, until a certain group started changing the meaning of words from benign and wholesome things to what we have now. Remember, if you dress up a pig, it's still just a pig.
how many of these jobs have been mechanized or moved to china
There nothing left there. The factories first moved south and than to Mexico and than China.
@@GeneralAlex4 Statistics from 2018: 444,000 manufacturing jobs in NY, with an average annual compensation of $76,000. Total value of manufactured goods at $74.5B dollars with $63B of that as international exports.
There is a common misconception that manufacturing has declined in the USA. In actual fact manufacturing has increased in product volume and dollar terms; it's the nature of that manufacturing and the number of jobs that has changed. Automation had a lot to do with that; modern assembly lines feature robots, not people.
You're remarkably misinformed about the nature of US trade.
First of all, the US has been disengaging from the global economy for decades, not the other way around.
Secondly, there are technological factors to consider, as Mr. Jackson has articulated.
Thirdly, there's also the fact that as real incomes increase, demand for manufactured goods tends to decline, as people spend more money on services.
Trade with China explains only very little of the decline in manufacturing employment.
@@jacksons1010 there's probably something to be said for the entry level bar as well. "back in the day" most people with a high school education could get a manufacturing job and be trained on the job. Now, you require 5 certifications a college degree and 5 years experience with the specific machine they want you to use. the postwar economy was a job seeker's market. There was a booming economy with tons of demand for goods, so you had tons of opportunities for work from companies eager to hire.
but since around the turn of the millennium, because we started exporting most manufacturing to china, what was left needed to justify the higher costs, and thus raised the barrier to entry. having a manufacturing job in this day and age is almost a luxury. because unlike the 50's and 60's, you won't just trip over one. Sure, NYC may still have *some* manufacturing jobs. But you mention 444k in 2018, that's a far cry from round about a *million* in 1950
And while yes, automation did play a part, the part that offshoring played cannot be ignored.
It is a shame that human's are such a blight on this planet, still, I'd love to have seen NYC back in that time.
Salton Sea, California, for me. An epitome of inane tourist trap americana.
Or at least until things went badly awry there. Very badly awry. But before then, primo tourist trap. Americana at its more goofy. Gotta love it.
Misanthropes really only hate one person but the rest of us have to suffer their sanctimonious bullshit.
Capitalism is chiefly to blame for this country’s ills.
@@YogsenForfoth Yes, and you're the direct evidence.
@@thomasjoyce7910Reported for misinformation.
Wow! The middle class was strong and proud and people looked beautiful. Now, we have lawlessness and criminals running the streets and the middle class has almost disappeared and few Native New Yorkers of any race left in the city
Great content and commentary. I liked the technique of not naming specific companies. I had to chuckle at the description for Eastman Kodak.
One notable observation...no Afro Americans or other non caucasians shown in any profession except apple picker. A singular black exiting a building and one cadet marching at the US Military Academy.
Also, I think the film missed out Chinatown and Little Italy altogether.
The producers probably thought NYC were “Caucasian American” City 100% !!! I am not even sure if I saw the United Nations HQs in the film. Will have to go through it again.
@@apiratsugondhabhirom2780 At the time when this was filmed, the city had a majority population of European background (predominately Ireland, Germany, France, Italy etc etc). Now it's majority-minority. Also, the bulk of the African American population was in Brooklyn at this time, not Manhattan. There were a series of race riots in NY in the mid -late 1800s (most notably the 1863 Draft Riots), which drove many black families out of Manhattan and into the other boroughs. That sadly remains the case to this day.
I ❤️ New York
When ny led the world, ---- too bad it has ALL gone away ,and as usual political pandering cost us that position, como in particular is ruining whats left of new york
Before the Twin Towers and NY Islanders
victory has defeated the us
10:32 I can just imagine the gossip at these sewing tables. Wonderful.
😮
Before diversity enriched NYC
No slums, no homeless, no rassism. What a nice and ironic world that time... 😁
Wow, I was born in NYC in 1960! O.O Yikes! LOL!
Macintosh is the king of apples?
But what about road apples?
Interesting seeing my harbor prr verizano bridge
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Not 1960s. The flag at the U.N. only had 48 stars. Alaska & Hawaii were admitted in 1959.
Is that Pernell Robert's narrating?
Excitement of a gay evening in Times Square 😍
This scene is what Lower Manhattan looked like from 1930 til 1966. By 1970 the twin towers of the World Trade center would rise near completion.
They skipped the meth labs.