https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/013295c8-1281-4498-900a-18c026e1bf69 This recently re-discovered home movie shows New York City during WWII. This home movie, captured between 1938 and 1945, showcases a WWII era New York City. The war transformed NYC into a vital home front hub. It operated as a warfront arsenal pumping out war materials and logistical launch pad for troops and supplies. It features rare color footage of the city’s skyline, night scenes through Times Square, Fulton Fish Market at it’s peak, youth feeding the iconic city’s gray pigeons, the bourgeois 5th Avenue, a Rockettes Show at Radio City Hall, Niagara Falls and FDR’s Springwood Estate. The filmmaker captures scenes from the center of the streets thrusting viewers into a WWII era NYC surrounded by pedestrians in 1940’s attire, vintage vehicles and a city draped in patriotic banners. 00:00 The Manhattan skyline and the Hudson with the Empire State Building, 20 Exchange Plaza, Chrysler Building and David N. Dinkins Manhattan Municipal buildings in view. A Victory Ship appears (:16).Victory’s were faster more advanced cargo ships designed to supplement the slower Liberty Ships. Lower Manhattan follows over the Hudson looking towards the financial district (:28). A tugboat leads a Victory Ship near the Statue of Liberty (:37). A Liberty and Victory ship sit (:46) in front of Lady Liberty. The Victory ship moves towards lower Manhattan on the East River (:55). It switches to ground footage (1:26). Market workers pick through fish baskets at Fulton Fish Market (1:33). The market opened in 1822 as a wing of Fulton Market at the South Street Seaport along the East River in the financial district of lower Manhattan. It was of the most important east coast fish markets until the 1950’s as fish were trucked in rather than offloaded at the docks. It relocated to Hunts Point in the Bronx. Workers toss ice over fish (1:49). Shots show cases of butterfish (1:55) and shrimp (2:01). Large fish get trimmed (2:06). The filmmaker captures locals and delivery trucks pushing through streets (2:32), patriotic banners and flags hanging from buildings. Federal Hall National Memorial on Wall Street opened 1842 (3:04). It’s bronze George Washington statue; created by John Quincy Adams Ward, marks the site where Washington took his oath (3:16). Youth play on a jungle gym (4:10). Children stick their hands out to greet the city’s pigeons (4:22-4:47). Food carts sell goods (4:51-4:56). Footage tours Lower Manhattan’s Trinity Churchyard Cemetery in the heart of Wall Street’s financial district (5:41) home to some of the city’s oldest tombstones. A tombstone features the Puritan’s ‘death head’ (6:00). The Chrysler Building (6:25), Grand Central Terminal (6:31) and it’s Glory of Commerce sculpture designed by Jules-Felix Coutan (6:35), Empire State Building (6:53), Church of the Transfiguration (7:01), uniformed servicemen (7:47), the Plaza of Rockefeller (7:58), the old Union Club Clubhouse off 5th and 51st street (8:14) and the Museum of Modern Art (8:24). MoMA is of the world’s largest and most influential modern art museums. Luxury boutiques of 5th Avenue (8:53) including Richard Hudnut (6:93) and Helena Rubinstein Salon (9:19). Uniformed female soldiers (9:35). New Yorkers feed birds of Washington Square park (9:49), sketch (10:21), play on the swing set (10:22) and lounge around the fountain (10:37). Times Square appears; the Midtown commercial intersection (10:44). Vintage billboards precede (10:53-11:04) neons lit up at night (11:14). The Cotton Club (11:30) featured numerous prolific black entertainers while barring American blacks from viewing shows. Jack Dempsey’s Broadway Bar (11:40) owned by the heavyweight boxing champ. The Rockettes perform (13:11-14:49). The Springwood Estate in Hyde Park (14:58) was the birthplace, burial place (15:31) and residence of FDR. It concludes with Niagara Falls State Park (16:20-16:46), Rainbow bridge (16:54-17:49) and a tour boat (18:29). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD and 2k. 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