Outerborough

In 1899 a cameraman for American Mutoscope & Biograph mounted his camera to the front of a trolley traveling over the Brooklyn Bridge. Three 90-foot rolls were edited to together to complete the journey from Manhattan to Brooklyn, entitled “Across the Brooklyn Bridge”. As the film was shot on the short-lived 68mm gauge, it had not been viewed by modern audiences until the British Film Institute restored the original to 35mm in 2004. As a commission by the Museum of Modern Art for the... Voir plus