Rare footage shows what New York City looked like in 1911
That's reflected in a documentary travelogue newly released by NYC's Museum of Modern Art. Made by a team of cameramen with the Swedish company Svenska Biografteatern, the film documents life in Manhattan in 1911.
It opens and closes with shots of the Statue of Liberty, and roams through the city's streets to show New York Harbor, Battery Park, Grace Church on Broadway, the Flatiron Building on Fifth Avenue, and shops on Madison Avenue.
At around 7:08, "take note of the surprising and remarkably timeless expression of boredom exhibited by a young girl filmed as she was chauffeured down Fifth Avenue in the front seat of a convertible limousine," the film's description reads.
The Svenska Biografteatern cameramen, who made moving images of well-known places around the world, also filmed the Niagara Falls, Paris, Monte Carlo, and Venice.
"New York 1911" is screening in the Titus Theater Lobby at MoMA until July 14. You can also watch it online here.
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