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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 Walt Whitman.
Cat: Documentary film, Silent film
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MANHATTA
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Photographed by
PAUL STRAND
and
CHARLES SHEELER
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Photographed
BY
PAUL STRAND
AND
CHARLES SHEELER
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"City of the world (for all races are here)
City of tall facades of marbles and iron,
Proud and passionate city."
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"When million-footed Manhattan unpent, descends to its pavements."
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WOMENMEN
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"High growths of iron, slender, strong, splendidly uprising toward clear skies."
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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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"Where our tall topt marble and iron beauties range on opposite sides."
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"City of hurried and sparkling waters,
City nested in bays."
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"This world all spanned with iron rails."
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WEST SHORE ELEVATOR
PIER 7.
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"With lines of steamships threading every sea."
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AQUITANIA
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"Shapes of the bridges, vast frameworks, girders, arches."
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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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"Where the city's ceaseless crowd moves on, the live long day."
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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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FIN