Speed Graphic Film and Video | The East River Drive in Manhattan, 1940's @SpeedGraphicFilmVideo | Uploaded October 2020 | Updated October 2024, 18 hours ago.
More unusual footage from the National Archives. The bulk of this video is a back-seat view of New York's East River Drive (FDR Drive), taken some time in the 1940's. The woman driver fiddles with the car radio a lot. On the same reel of film were several shots of a woman sitting in an office listening to a radio. Is it the same woman? Who knows. In any case, I used the office shots as the opening and closing for this video, then added some period music.
0:21 The drive begins northbound around 42nd Street. This stretch of the FDR Drive looks nothing like this today, because this is the site of the United Nations headquarters.
1:24 Now we're southbound, just emerging from under Carl Shurz Park.
1:57 Skipping ahead. Now we're in the East 60's.
2:34 Back in the Turtle Bay neighborhood again.
P.S.: Can anybody identify the car?
More unusual footage from the National Archives. The bulk of this video is a back-seat view of New York's East River Drive (FDR Drive), taken some time in the 1940's. The woman driver fiddles with the car radio a lot. On the same reel of film were several shots of a woman sitting in an office listening to a radio. Is it the same woman? Who knows. In any case, I used the office shots as the opening and closing for this video, then added some period music.
0:21 The drive begins northbound around 42nd Street. This stretch of the FDR Drive looks nothing like this today, because this is the site of the United Nations headquarters.
1:24 Now we're southbound, just emerging from under Carl Shurz Park.
1:57 Skipping ahead. Now we're in the East 60's.
2:34 Back in the Turtle Bay neighborhood again.
P.S.: Can anybody identify the car?
