User: M-le-mot-dit
File: Manhatta 1921.ogv
Author: Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler
Publisher: Film Arts Guild
Year: 1921
PD: PD/US|1976
Note: An American 1921 short documentary silent film showing early 20th-century Manhattan; the intertitles include excerpts from the writings of [[Author:Walt Whitman|Walt Whitman]].
Cat: Documentary film, Silent film
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{{Center|{{X-larger|MANHATTA}}}}
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{{Center|''Photographed by''
<p>PAUL STRAND<br />
''and''<br />
CHARLES SHEELER</p>}}
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{{Center|{{Fine|''Photographed''}}<br />
{{Fine|''BY''}}<br />
<p>PAUL STRAND<br />
{{Fine|''AND''}}<br />
CHARLES SHEELER</p>}}
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"''City of the world (for all races are here)''<br /><br />
''City of tall facades of marbles and iron,''<br /><br />
''Proud and passionate city.''"
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{{Center|"''When million-footed Manhattan unpent, descends to its pavements.''"}}
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1:11
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{{X-smaller|WOMEN{{Gap|18em}}MEN}}
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2:29
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"''High growths of iron, slender, strong, splendidly uprising toward clear skies.''"
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3:02
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"''The building of cities:—the shovel, the great derrick, the wall scaffold, the work of walls and ceilings.''"
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3:44
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"''Where our tall topt marble and iron beauties range on opposite sides.''"
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5:04
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{{Center|"''City of hurried and sparkling waters,''<br /><br />
''City nested in bays.''"}}
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5:36
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"''This world all spanned with iron rails.''"
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6:05
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{{Center|{{Smaller block|{{Smaller|WEST SHORE ELEVATOR}}<br />PIER 7.}}}}
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6:13
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"''With lines of steamships threading every sea.''"
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6:53
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{{Center|{{Smaller|{{lsp|.5em|AQUITANIA}}}}}}
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7:43
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"''Shapes of the bridges, vast frameworks, girders, arches.''"
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7:56
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"''On the river the shadowy group, by the big steam tug closely flank'd on each side by barges.''"
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8:29
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"''Where the city's ceaseless crowd moves on, the live long day.''"
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9:07
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"''Gorgeous clouds of sunset! drench with your splendor me or the men and women generations after me.''"
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9:39
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{{Center|{{X-larger|{{Definition|FIN|THE END}}}}}}
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