Still Images of People Walking on New York Streets

★★★★★ · This is NOT 1936!! · MikeManners · 2009-10-20

This was filmed around 1940-41. The large amount of Military personnel on the streets would NOT have been seen in 1936. One reviewer dated this film as 1936 because of a film advertisement for James Cagney's Frisco Kid. HELLO!....they did show movies several years after their release dates back then. People were still in a Depression era mentality and seeing an old movie was still something people did. ALSO...you will see some British military personel in some of these images. You can tell by their uniforms. WHY would British soliders be walking down NYC streets in 1936? We were not allies…

★★★★ · Intriguing · barticle · 2009-05-26

Fascinating clip. Wonder what film it was from? Seems like a lot more could be done with this film technique. Why all the military on the street when there was no war going on? What were these folks thinking about the Great Depression? Where were they all going? 1935 was the year I was born.

★★★ · People are People · Spuzz · 2012-04-08

Random images from a movie, probably just a cameraman on New York Streets, taking pictures of GI's. What purpose this film holds is anyone's guess. But havent I seen these people before (aka, have I seen this film?)