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      06-02-2013, 12:34 AM   #1
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Movie Footage of New York City in 1939

Fantastic footage and interesting backstory

Through the Lens of a Tourist: New York City in 1939


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It looks like footage from a feature film but it’s a home movie tken by a French tourist in the summer of 1939. Color film and home movies were first taking off when Jean Vivier, a Frenchman, sailed from Marseille to New York on the SS Normandie for a vacation and started shooting what he saw.

In the course of his trip, he visited tourist sites that are still popular today, ...

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Some of those taxis looked awesome. Air was none to clean though.
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Some of those taxis looked awesome. Air was none to clean though.
Science tells us that our air has never been dirtier than it is now...
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That was interesting, thanks for the share.
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