This Was New York in 1911 - Filmed That Year

New York City in 1911, filmed that year. Real archive footage and photographs, with every source named on screen. This is the first film of Sepia Cities: one city, one year, and the people who were standing in it. In 1911 New York had the tallest building on earth, a brand-new public library open to anyone who walked in, and a factory fire that killed a hundred and forty-six workers in half an hour, on the corner of Washington Square. Almost every building in this film is still standing. Nobody in it is. Every number on screen carries its source. Where the sources disagree, we say so. 1911 or today - which New York would you live in? Tell me in the comments. I read them. CHAPTERS 0:00 The year the modern city arrived 0:43 What you are about to see 1:35 By the census: 79,000 to 4.7 million 1:53 The most crowded city on earth 3:34 The door, year by year 3:51 The city that touched the sky 5:37 How high, how fast 5:51 A nickel and the moving city 7:25 What things cost in 1911 7:43 Six dollars a week 8:01 The week that made the blouse 10:10 146 13:16 What they left standing 14:26 Stand here now 15:13 Then and now, by the numbers 15:44 The people are gone. The city remembers. FOOTAGE & PHOTOGRAPHS The main footage is "New York 1911", shot by a crew from the Swedish company Svenska Biografteatern and restored by the Museum of Modern Art from the original nitrate print. It is in the public domain. Its 2017 musical score is NOT - we use the picture only, never that audio. Older films (1899-1906) appear only where the narration is speaking about that earlier moment, and each carries its year on screen. Wikimedia Commons - CC BY 2.0 Brooklyn Bridge at sunset1.jpg Crowds fill the street and watch as the Asch Building, location of the Triangle Waist Company, burns, March 25, 1911 (5279143669).jpg Exterior of the Asch Building after the Triangle Waist Company fire includes the company sign on the building corner. (5279683076).jpg Firefighters spray water on the Asch Building trying to put out the Triangle factory fire blaze, March 25, 1911 (5279335917).jpg Hundreds of mourners gather around a funeral procession for victims of the Triangle fire. (5279748326).jpg Mourners line the streets during a funeral procession for victims of the Triangle fire, April 5, 1911 (5279748598).jpg Newspaper photographs of the Asch Building's exterior after the Triangle fire (5279749194).jpg The Triangle Waist Company fire escape, weakened by the heat of the fire, leads from upper floors of the Asch Building (5279681954).jpg Wikimedia Commons - CC BY 2.5 NYC Public Library Research Room Jan 2006-1- 3.jpg Wikimedia Commons - CC BY 4.0 Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower.jpg Metropolitan-Life-Insurance-Company-Tower-New-York-September-2014.jpg New York Public Library at Night (6).jpg Wikimedia Commons - CC0 New York Public Library Main Branch Lion.jpg Triangle Building crop.jpg Triangle Building.jpg Wikimedia Commons - No known restrictions on publication (PD-old-70-1923) Group in Sweatshop. Mr. Schneider, 87 Ridge Street Shop located in the second inner court. Group just finishing week's work. Witness Mrs. Lillian Hosford. LOC cph.3a21184.jpg Horse-drawn streetcar no. 148 of a New York City system LCCN2004667717.jpg Wikimedia Commons - Public domain 104th Street curve, New York, elevated railway (1899).webm An East Side Street During the Strike, published in The Public of January 14, 1910.png Arrival of immigrants, Ellis Island.webm Bandits Roost, 59 and a half Mulberry Street.jpg Bellows new york 1911.jpg Clara Lemlich 1910.jpg Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre (1901).mpg Edificio Fuller (Flatiron) en 2010 desde el Empire State crop boxin.jpg Emigrants (i.e. immigrants) landing at Ellis Island -.webm Fifth Avenue, East 14th St., New York 1911.jpg Frances Perkins LCCN2014708217.jpg Horse-drawn fire engines in street, on their way to the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire, New York City LCCN2002709198.jpg Image of Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on March 25 - 1911.jpg Italian immigrants at Ellis Island.jpg MASSIVE ELEVATED BENT AT 185TH ST., 3RD AVENUE GENERAL VIEW IS NORTH. - Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Borough of the Bronx, New York, New York HAER NY,3-BRONX,13-66.tif MUSIC Three solo-piano nocturnes by Frederic Chopin (d. 1849; the compositions are public domain), performed and recorded by Musopen and released into the public domain under Creative Commons Zero (CC0 1.0). Both the composition and these recordings are public domain - no rights reserved, no attribution required. Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9 No. 2 (opening and early chapters) Nocturne in C minor, Op. 48 No. 1 (the fire) #newyork #history #thenandnow #1910s #vintage #newyorkcity #documentary