Panorama from the Roof of the Times Building, New York

Wallace McCutcheon: Panorama from the Roof of the Times Building, New York (US 1905). Title: Panorama from Times Building, New York. Summary: The view is from the top of the then newly-erected Times Building, at a height of approximately twenty stories. The film opens with a vertical pan, going from the street below up to the sky. The photographer then makes a pan to the north over the tops of the buildings from Bryant Park, south of 42nd Street (behind the New York Public Library) [Frame: 1078] up 6th Avenue to the Hippodrome Theatre at 43rd Street [1866]. A marquee on the theater reads "A Yankee Circus On Mars." The camera continues to rotate toward 44th and 45th Streets between 6th and 7th Avenues, until coming to rest looking directly north up Times Square to 46th Street, where Broadway (left) and 7th Avenue (right) diverge again [3676]. Names: McCutcheon, Wallace, camera American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress). Created / Published: United States : American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1905. Notes: H59310 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 11Apr1905; H59310. Duration: 2:04 at 15 fps. Camera, Wallace McCutcheon. Biograph production no. 2998. Paper print shelf number (LC 2119) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed. Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian. Photographed April, 1905. Location: Broadway and 7th Avenue, between 42nd and 43rd Streets, New York, N.Y. Sources used: Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 237; Biograph production logs, v. 2, p. 50. Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985. 35 mm viewing print renumbered: FEA 9829 to FYA 0886. 35 mm dupe neg pic renumbered: FPE 5560 to FZA 2335. View Panorama from Times Building, New York: Library of Congress.

Panorama from Times Building, New York.

US 1905. PC: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co. 88 m. LoC. ♪ Alain Baents. Saturday 2 July 2005, Cinema Lumière 2, Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna. An expressive high angle shot.