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Not exactly Panoramic...
The title of this film is partly misleading: although it does give us a view of Blackwell's Island in 1903, it is not a panoramic shot but filmed from a boat speeding along the river alongside the bank. The camera shows us a bleak landscape - emphasised perhaps by the grainy quality of the film - littered with buildings but only a few briefly-glimpsed people. The buildings the boat passes are described in the film's summary as a lighthouse, brewery, lunatic asylum, workhouse, almshouse, prison and charity hospital. It's not exactly the most interesting of subjects but obviously has worth as a social document. It would be interesting to see a modern film retracing that long ago journey to see just how much the area has changed.
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- JoeytheBrit
- May 19, 2009
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- Filming locations
- Roosevelt Island, New York City, New York, USA(Blackwell's Island c. 1903. Blackwell Family were the former owners of the island.)
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- Runtime2 minutes
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- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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