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Nov 2, 2023 · We learn from Sanders about a wide spectrum of facts - that the first housing project in the country was in Red Hook, Brooklyn in 1938 and about Hollywood’s admiration for the penthouse.
Though the pages of Celluloid Skyline span more than a century—from the decades before World War I, when film pioneers shot in the actual city, through the rise of an invented New York in the Hollywood studio era of the 1930s and ‘40s, to the postwar period, when the film industry returned to the streets—the book is thus not chronological ...
Unfortunately, where is does fall short is in the area of referencing actual geographic film locations. It will mention a film title and include an image, but often leave out the all-important location information, opting only to give reference to an district of Manhattan.
It was in the real city, to be sure, that the search began. Armed with old newspaper clippings and a few film stills, I began by searching for traces of the mythic city in the existing urban landscape. At times, I was amazed to come across entire pieces of movie New York, essentially intact.
How many film critics would pick up on the contrast between the uniform street wall that can be seen through the alley across from Jimmy Stewart’s apartment in Rear Window, and the decidedly more variegated private space that forms most of the courtyard he looks out on?
The month-long multimedia exhibition, based on Sanders’ classic book by the same name, relates the hundred-year plus history of filmmaking in and about New York City in a display of original scenic backings, film footage, production stills, and exhibition panels complete with quotes, location shots, art department drawings and renderings.
In 1901 a woman was filmed as warm air from a sidewalk grating blew her skirt up around her legs – an arranged accident more glamorously re-enacted half a century later.
