Post by Deleted on May 10, 2017 19:16:31 GMT
Well, there's plenty, it just depends on what you're looking for, specifically. Obviously, the Edison film, and potentially Edison FILMS made in the early 1900's. The Harold Lloyd film is probably the most famous silent era big budget film loaded with Manhattan exteriors. Famously the cab ride to Yankee Stadium featuring Babe Ruth. King Vidor's "The Crowd" also had some memorable exterior shots, especially the Coney Island sequence. Here is the famous opening montage to Vidor's "The Crowd".
Biograph studios was located at various times in both the Bronx and Manhattan. This film here, passed the 4 minute mark? Is filmed in Central Park, 1908, by DW Griffith, from Biograph. I wouldn't be surprised if 'the doorway' which everyone walks out of during the film? Still exists either on Park Ave, or CPW.
Paramount Pictures owned what is now Kaufman Studios in Astoria. The Marx Brothers would film movies there during the day, go across river, and perform their latest play on Broadway the very same night! The Florida 'beach exteriors' in "The Cocoanuts", if I remember correctly? Had fake palm trees strewn around, and were filmed on Long Island somewhere.
Vitagraph Studios was active in the early 1900's, moved to Brooklyn, and was eventually bought out by Warner Bros. They were famous for being Warners "sound company" of the early talkies. From Wiki:
In terms of historical stuff, just go on youtube, and search 'early new york city', etc. 'New York 1890's', stuff like that. There is a fair amount of stuff out there.
Biograph studios was located at various times in both the Bronx and Manhattan. This film here, passed the 4 minute mark? Is filmed in Central Park, 1908, by DW Griffith, from Biograph. I wouldn't be surprised if 'the doorway' which everyone walks out of during the film? Still exists either on Park Ave, or CPW.
Paramount Pictures owned what is now Kaufman Studios in Astoria. The Marx Brothers would film movies there during the day, go across river, and perform their latest play on Broadway the very same night! The Florida 'beach exteriors' in "The Cocoanuts", if I remember correctly? Had fake palm trees strewn around, and were filmed on Long Island somewhere.
Vitagraph Studios was active in the early 1900's, moved to Brooklyn, and was eventually bought out by Warner Bros. They were famous for being Warners "sound company" of the early talkies. From Wiki:
On April 22, 1925, Smith finally gave up and sold the company to Warner Bros.[6] for a comfortable profit. The Flatbush studio (renamed Vitaphone) was later used as an independent unit within Warner Bros., specializing in early sound shorts. Among those performers who made early film appearances in Vitaphone shorts filmed at the Flatbush studios include Al Jolson, Humphrey Bogart, Jimmy Stewart, Bob Hope, Spencer Tracy, Jack Benny, Sammy Davis Jr., Sylvia Sidney, Pat O'Brien, Ruth Etting, Mischa Elman, Frances Langford, Betty Hutton, Burns and Allen, Giovanni Martinelli, Xavier Cugat, Bill Robinson, Lillian Roth, Joan Blondell, Ethel Merman, Abbe Lane, Eleanor Powell, Helen Morgan, The Nicholas Brothers, Milton Berle, Leo Carillo, Harriet Nelson, Brian Donlevy, Jane Froman, Jack Haley, Phil Silvers, Judy Canova, Nina Mae McKinney, Marjorie Main, Rose Marie, Joe Penner, Ethel Waters, June Allyson, Shemp Howard, Lanny Ross, Lionel Stander, Edgar Bergen, and Cyd Charisse among others.
In terms of historical stuff, just go on youtube, and search 'early new york city', etc. 'New York 1890's', stuff like that. There is a fair amount of stuff out there.