Outerborough

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Documentary

Overview

In 1899, a photographer at American Mutoscope & Biograph mounted his camera on the front of a trolley traveling over the Brooklyn Bridge. The three 90-foot rolls he created were edited together to complete the journey from Manhattan to Brooklyn, entitled Across the Brooklyn Bridge. As a commission by the Museum of Modern Art for the re-opening of their facility, American avant-garde filmmaker Bill Morrison took this remarkable footage and recombined it with itself to form a new split-screen extrapolation.

Keywords

new york city
19th century
brooklyn
usa history
brooklyn bridge
historical
history
travelogue
brooklyn, new york city

Details

Status: Released
Release date: April 19, 2005
Original language: English
Countries: United States of America
Production: Hypnotic Pictures
Director: Bill Morrison
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
Homepage: Official site
IMDb: tt4729466