Outerborough

Apr 19, 2005 9m

6.6

5 votes

Documentary

Synopsis

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.

Title	Outerborough
Companies	Hypnotic Pictures
Countries	United States of America
Keywords	historical, brooklyn, new york city, brooklyn bridge, usa history, travelogue, 19th century, history