Greenwich Village, New York Snowstorm, and Coney Island (1944)

★★★★★ · What War? · donwert · 2011-02-04

A delightful home movie, in beautiful color, of activities in and around New York City in 1944. It starts out at a Greenwich Village art fair---where the art is just as dreadful and any in a modern art fair! Then we see a brief glimpse of a thoroughfare along the East River---almost devoid of cars---gasoline rationing! We then go to Coney Island where we see many soldiers and sailors relaxing at the beach. In the odd custom of those days, men dressed up to go to an amusement park---three-piece suits and ties to go to Coney Island??? Then it's back to Greenwich Village after a blizzard. These…

★★★★ · A treat watching this 1944 color film of New York · ERD. · 2010-01-19

I really enjoyed watching this historical 1944 color film of Greenwich Village,NY (Spring painting exhibit and later the winter storm) & Coney Island in Brooklyn. (Nice seeing the Steeplechase Park building, the Parachute Ride and the Wonder Wheel) It was like stepping back in time. I also found it interesting looking at the people of that era. Who knows, maybe some of my family was there. They lived in that area during those years.

★★★ · There's A Riot Going On · Wilford B. Wolf · 2005-08-18

Amateur films are difficult to review because they have no narrative, no cohesiveness. There is just a series of images with occasionally unintentional juxapositions. Take this film for example. We start off with a pleasent spring morning, strolling around Greenwich Village looking at mediocre art and viewing the nearly empty streets around the Brooklyn Bridge. Next, in 1944, we wander a crowded Coney Island in its heyday. Saliors and soliders on leave, try to reenact their own "On The Town." We watch the midway and the massive "Wonder Wheel" before we are violently thrown into the aftermath…

★★★ · Woo! Wonderwheel!! · Bill T. · 2005-12-04

I found this collection great for the most part! We first start out in Greenwich Village.. Was it Sunday? Who knows, anyways, it appears that the Wathens are an older couple. Each of them have come for the art, and pose in front of a lot of them, cheesing off the artists.(because they¡¯re not buying any!) Mr Wathen looks alarmingly like Harry Truman. I like his hat. We then take pose on a balcony. The woman there¡¯s corsage is far too big, The streets there look to be alarmingly dangerous.. Sorry these are just random thoughts.. Nice shot of the Brooklyn bridge.. Then we go to Coney Island!!…