Extremely interesting long film about New York towards the end of the Great Depression. This film is in colour, motion-stabilized, enhanced and speed-corrected by me. It was shot between 1935 and 1939. Duration: nearly 42 minutes. It shows many images of New York's buildings (Empire State, Chrysler and Woolworth buildings a.o), Bridges, Aircraft, Neon lights and Steamships. Especially the footage of the famous ocean liners RMS Queen Mary, which was brand new at that time, and the SS Normandie and SS Conte di Savoia footage (in color!) is intriguing. The film was probably made by a wealthy family involving an elderly lady who appears half a dozen times in the film. Maybe this family booked the famous SS Normandie cruise to Rio in Feb.1938 or Feb.1939. Please note that the film has NOT been artificially colourized; it is original Kodak (?) color film. Do take a look at the other material on my channel. There is lots of historically important material, including recently some colourized films using the latest "DeOldify" software. For example see Martin Luther King in spectacular colour, as well as the Attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941. Update: after reading all the comments, the concensus seems to be that most, if not all of this film was shot around the Christmas period of 1937. Please help me improve this chronological list: 00:00 Lower Manhattan skyline seen from Brooklyn Heights Promenade 00:45 Staten Island steam ferry? 01:04 One-stack pass.ship, name? 01:10 Old three-stack pass.ship, maybe USS Leviathan? 01:28 One-stack pass.ship, name? 02:18 Westfield II steam ferry to Staten Island, built 1862 (?!) 02:30 Floyd Bennett Airfield, North Beach Air Service inc. hangar 02:43 Hoey Air Services hangar at F.B. Airfield 02:55 Ladies board monoplane, Stinson S Junior, NC10883, built 1931 03:15 Flying over New York: Central Park & Rockefeller Center 03:19 Empire State Building (ESB) 03:22 Chrysler building in the distance 03:26 Statue of Liberty island 03:30 Aircraft, Waco ZQC-6, built 1936 03:47 Reg.no. NC16234 becomes readable 04:00 Arrival of the "Fly Eddie Lyons" aircraft 04:18 Dutch made Fokker 1, packed 04:23 Douglas DC3 "Dakota", also packed, new 04:28 Green mono- or tri-engine aircraft, type? 04:40 DC3 again. DC3's flew first on 17 Dec.1935 04:44 Back side of Woolworth Building 05:42 Broadway at Bowling Green 05:12 View from Hudson 05:13 Water plane, Grumman G-21A Goose. 05:38 Street with city bus, location? 05:40 Truck, model? 05:42 Broadway at Bowling Green 05:46 Old truck, "Engels", model? 05:50 Location?, DeStoto Sunshine cab 1936 05:52 Green truck, "Bier Mard Bros"?, model? 05:56 Ford Model AA truck 1930 05:58 Open truck, model? 06:05 Standard Oil Building 06:25 Bus 366 & Ford Model A 1930 06:33 South Street & Coenties Slip 06:35 View from?, Black car, model? 06:45 ESB, right. Left: see 07:12 06:48 Small commercial? vessels in the Hudson 06:50 Owned by Harry F. Reardon 07:05 Shack on Coenties Slip, Pier 5 07:12 City Bank-Farmers Trust Building, 20 Exchange Place 07:15 Oyster bar, near Coenties Slip 07:19 Location? 07:31 Holland America Line, Volendam-I, built 1922 07:32 Chrysler Plymouth P2 De Luxe 07:34 Oyster vendor 08:05 Vendor shows oyster in pot 08:16 Busy street, location? Many cars, models? 08:30 Looking down Wallstreet 08:52 More cars, models? 09:00 Near the Erie Ferry, 1934/35 Ford series 48 De Luxe 09:02 Rows of Christmas tree sales, location? 09:15 Erie Railroad building, location? Quay 21? Taxi passes by, model? 09:23 1934 Dodge DS 09:27 Baltimore and ???? co. 09:29 Clyde Mallory Lines 09:49, 10:08, 10:11, 10:45 Location? 10:25 Henry Hudson Parkway 11:30 George Washington Bridge without the Lower Level 12:07 12:15 12:49 13:14 13:35 Location? 13:42 Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art 14:51 Rockefella Plaza? 16:33 Saint Patrick's Cathedral 16:50 Public Library 17:24 Panoramic view, from ESB 17:45 RCA Building, 30 Rockefeller Plaza 18:16 Original Penn Station 19:27 Movie True Confession, rel. 24 Dec.1937 19:30 Sloppy Joes 20:12 Neon lights & Xmas 26:34 Herald Square 29:48 Police Emergency Service (B&W) 31:00 SS Normandie, French Line, Pier 88 32:06 RMS Queen Mary, White Star Line, Pier 92? 32:43 Departure Queen Mary 33:45 Italian Line, Pier 84?, Terminal, dd.1935 34:00 SS Conte Di Savoia, Italian Line, pier 84 34:25 Peanut seller, near the piers 34:35 Feeding the pidgeons (with peanuts?). 34:52 SS Normandie, exterior and on deck 35:30 View from Pier 88? 35:59 Interior 37:06 From Pier 88? 37:23 Northern, Eastern, Southern or Western Prince, built 1929 37:32 Tug, William C. Gaynor 38:20 Departure 38:38 Blue Riband! 39:15 Tugs push Normandie into fairway 39:50 Under own steam. 40:00 Statue of Liberty 40:15 SS Normandie leaves NYC 40:35 Film is in wrong order because tugs are involved again? 41:15 SS Normandie in the distance 41:24 Spectators leave for home 41:40 Beautiful sunset 41:53 End.

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