Details
- Running time
- 5 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
- Internet Archive item
- Times_Square_in_1945_1969_2
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Cut to.. · Spuzz · 2012-06-15
Interesting reel.. I'd like to know more about it. We start with death scenes. Why? I am not too sure. Maybe some kind of metaphor to what's coming up? Anyways, scenes of 1945 Times Square is shown, D Day just happened, people are out on the street celebrating! Soldiers kissing women! (there was apparently a lot of this happening) and a lot of ticker tape. We then have have shots of 1969 New York, full of luried advertising on the walls and marquees promising this and that (I LOVED the naked guy in the window). This is all done with shots lasting no more than 5 seconds or so, then it going…