01.00.02 Script The life of a City. Side A
00.12 Script The Statue of Liberty
00.19 The Statue of Liberty
01.08 Waterfront of the river from East river. Including warehouses, ships, industry, and small boats.
3.29 Brooklyn Bridge
3.46 Skyscrapers of New York from the north river. Riverfront in the fore ground.
7.24 Blackwell Island. Including buildings.
10.00 Immigrants landing at Emits Island. Boat coming in to the dock.
11.00 People leaving the boat.
12.33 Arrival of Immigrants at Ellis Island. Queues of people with baggage. Mostly men.
24.49 Immigrants getting aboard boats.
16.15 Script - Departure of Peary and the Roosevelt from New York.
16.30 The Roosevelt ship with other boats in the dock
17.49 People on board of the ship Man helping women up a set of stairs.
20.44 Script panorama from Times Building, New York
20.56 View from top of building over smaller buildings.
21.39 View including park and main street and hippodrome. Church. Poorer areas
23.26 Script - Broadway and Union Square. New York
23.38 Crowded Trams in Times Square
24.01 Script -Lower Broadway
24.12 Lower Broadway including trams, horse and cards, people walking.
25.47 Script -Bargain day. 14th street. New York
25.59 Rothschild shop. Crowds pushing to go in.
27.20 Script - New York City ghetto fish market
27.33 Market stalls with umbrellas. People shopping
30.22 Script Move On
30.37 Fruit and vegetable stall on street. People buying food. Carts being passed past. Policeman walking past making the stall move.
31.21 Script- Delivering newspapers.
32.33 Children playing in the street. Horse and cart with newspapers arrives and all of the boys run up behind it to get the newspapers.
33.27 Script A street Arab
33.36 Boy performing acrobatics.
34.30 Script at the foot of the Flatiron
34.43 Street with people walking along outside of a ship. Windy everybody holding onto their hats.
37.02 Script -What happened on Twenty- Third Street New York?
37.12 Street. Carts alongside. People walking. Women walking and her skirt blows up she has to catch it.
38.30 Script - Skating on lake Central park
38.41 People ice-skating.
39.36 Script sleighing scene
39.45 Horse drawn sleighs.
40.34 Script Beginning of a skyscraper.
40.45 Large piddle of rubble. People on it working. Machinery.
41.11 Script - A perilous proceeding
41.23 Building site. Workers descending on a makeshift lift.
42.18 Script Excavating for a New York fountain
42.28 Men digging. Machinery. Crane.
44.58 Script New York City dumping wharf
45.08 Barge full of rubbish. Carts tipping rubbish over quayside onto barge.
46.30 Script sorting refuse and incinerating plant.
46.43 Men collecting rubbish from a pile.
48.27 Script panorama of Rikers Island. New York
48.37 Industrial buildings and machinery. Quayside. River in foreground.