The colouring of the newsreel was a bit more "artificial" rather than "Intelligent".
I recognised the "Queen of Bermuda", although, since they cut the sequence before the name, it could have been "Monarch of Bermuda". I'm surprised the funnel coulours were so wrong. At least the original film must have been panchromatic to render the red such a light colour.
This has been listed on these forums before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJDLl2RbS_c
But this has genuine colour footage of New York in 1939 if I've followed it correctly. It has closed captions (in French like the commentary) but you should recoginse the names of the areas.
The unloading of passenger's cars and the elevated railway scenes were high points, but the actual colours of clothing was interesting. Many more brown suits and jackets than more recently.
The New York scenes are from 30 minutes to 40 minutes in the video. There is some B&W newsreel footage.
Peter
Interresting!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Queen_of_Bermuda
Same me, different spelling!
54light15 The SS Queen of Bermuda.
The SS Queen of Bermuda.
Does anyone know which ocean liner that was at the very beginning?
54light15 What I find most interesting are the sailing ships looking like they are still working vessels. In 1937, yet.
What I find most interesting are the sailing ships looking like they are still working vessels. In 1937, yet.
Coasting schooners hung on for quite a while. While subject to the vagaries of winds (although schooners can sail a lot closer to the wind than a square-rigger can) they were still a very economical way to haul cargo of various types up and down the East Coast.
Square-riggers were also an economical way to haul non time sensitive cargos to areas where the prevailing trade winds could take them, especially to harbors that didn't have the infrastructure to support steamships, but their time was rapidly coming to an end.
Wow! What a great time machine! Thanks for posting!
This is mainly about ship traffic but there is a little railroad action in the form of barges and the Hell Gate bridge. It's worth seeing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T65ZBMLlgp0
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