While The City Sleeps (ca. 1940)
Sharp black and white footage of depression-era New York City at night, art deco-styled trucks and workmen toiling in the wee hours of the morning — all of it meant to sell you on the wonders of modern consumer culture and the ability of Ford trucks to provide it. (Dig that one-slice electric toaster.) Propaganda? Sure. But it offers a rare look at workers in action, circa 1940, even if some scenes are highly dubious. (Are we really supposed to believe that the guys working for the water company — not at the office but at the manhole — wore suits?) Production values are pretty high — almost as high as the narrator is on trucks. (“Powerful and sturdy, convenient, economical, fast!”)
Enjoy!
Courtesy of the Ford Motor Company, Paramount Films and the U.S. National Archives.
While The City Sleeps (ca. 1940)
Black and white footage of New York at night, art deco-styled trucks and workmen toiling in the wee hours of the morning — all of it meant to sell you on the wonders of modern consumer culture and the ability of Ford trucks to provide it. (Dig that one-slice electric toaster.) Propaganda? Sure. But it offers a rare look at workers in action, circa 1940, even if some scenes are highly dubious. (Are we really supposed to believe that the guys working for the water company — not at the office but at the manhole cover — wore suits?) Production values are pretty high — almost as high as the narrator is on trucks. (“Powerful and sturdy, convenient, economical, fast!”)
Enjoy!
Courtesy of the Ford Motor Company, Paramount Films and the U.S. National Archives.
New York Gritty
Time Square circa 1987, pre-Disney-fication.
Thanks Animal!
New York Gritty
Time Square circa 1987, pre-Disney-fication.
Thanks Animal!
Mr. Gilbert was visibly annoyed by the persistent ring-tone, so much that he quietly cut the orchestra,” the concert-goer reports. She related how the orchestra’s music director turned on the podium towards the offender. The pause lasted a good “three or four minutes. It might have been two. It seemed long.
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Tuesday night’s New York Philharmonic performance of the Mahler Ninth was stopped dead by an unusual instrument—the iPhone.
An iPhone (using the marimba ring-tone) went off repeatedly in the fourth movement of Mahler’s final completed symphony. According to an eyewitness, the offending phone owner was in the front rows of Avery Fisher Hall when his phone went off, just 13 bars before the last page of the score. In other words, in the final moments of a 25-minute movement, that ends a 90-minute symphony.
(via joshsternberg)
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