New York: Broadway at Union Square

1896 Documentary 36 seconds Directed by Alexandre Promio

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About New York: Broadway at Union Square

Policemen direct wagons and pedestrians at Broadway and Union Square. Horse-drawn traffic crosses the junction. A trolley turns the corner and leaves the frame.

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Lumière view no. 328, shot by Alexandre Promio in September 1896, with the catalogue window closing on September 25. The length is 17 meters. GRIMH lists a Lyon Photo-Club screening on December 16, 1896, inside a program of American views, and a January 3, 1897 show under the title New York: Broadway et Union Square.

Themes

Making

Promio was the Lumière operator on the New York views, cranking a Cinématographe from a fixed spot at the square.

Look

Alexandre Promio shot Lumière no. 328 on a Cinématographe, a single daylight view down the crossing.

Preservation

Silent Era lists the view as surviving.

Notes

  • Silent Era's synopsis names the policemen, the crossing traffic, and the trolley that turns out of frame.
  • GRIMH also lists a February 28, 1897 showing at Proctor's Pleasure Palace in New York, billed as Dead Man's Curve.
  • The view is one of the American actualités Promio brought back from his 1896 trip.
  • Timed copies run 36 seconds. The Lumière catalogue length is 17 meters.

Scenes

  • A trolley takes the corner at Union Square and passes out of the shot.

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