Synopsis
Film on the Pan Am Building in New York City. men working on skyscraper construction site in New York City. Construction workers in hardhats; steel beams, cranes; sparks from welding. construction workers in hardhats mixing and pouring concrete. Construction workers with harnesses working on steel beams of skyscraper towering precariously over New York City skyline. Building the Pan Am (now MetLife) building. Two construction workers on top story of skyscraper pulling in large slab of concrete delivered by crane; New York City down below. Man welding on top of skyscraper. Central Park and Upper West Side of Manhattan visible below. hammering nail. Low angle unfinished Pan Am building (now Metropolitan Life). inside unfinished Pan Am building; bare frame of building, concrete and steel; pipes; sign “Danger High Voltage.” Camera lead by flashlight down dark concrete wall hallway dimly lit by bare bulbs; camera passes sign with arrow “200 Park Ave. Building Office.” Statue of Erwin Wolfson developer of the Pan Am building project. 1970s futuristic circular information desk in Pan Am building. Undulating white walls with Pan Am sign and map of world; everything in white. Pan Am building shot from below towering over Grand Central Station. of New York City from atop the Pan Am building. interior of NYC abandoned office building in ruins; corridor with torn down walls, floor littered with debris; phone with rotary dials covered in dust; chair pulled out from desk covered in dust…
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Details
- Running time
- 21 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
- Internet Archive item
- 0816_City_Within_a_City_A_04_02_15_00
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Film within a Film of City Within a City · Spuzz · 2016-06-15
Film about the building of the Pan Am Skyscraper would be interesting in itself, even though it's silent. It's got a lot of cool construction footage, as well as great shots, both exterior and interior of the finished product. (Even though it's somewhat jumbled up). The real story though in this film, is why there's negative dupe scenes of a film stuck in there, complete with magnetic sound stripe (and that's silent too). It starts in the beginning, then the Pan-Am movie, then goes back to the negative dupe, then the dupe reel ends and we go back to the Pan Am film for quite a while. The…