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Manhatta
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.15|thumbtime=5|Full film Manhatta (1921) is a short documentary film directed by painter Charles Sheeler and photographer Paul Strand.
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6.7Morning reveals New York harbor, the wharves, the Brooklyn Bridge. A ferry boat docks, disgorging its huddled mass. People move briskly along Wall St. or stroll more languorously through a cemetery. Ranks of skyscrapers extrude columns of smoke and steam. In plain view. Or framed, as through a balustrade. A crane promotes the city's upward progress, as an ironworker balances on a high beam. A locomotive in a railway yard prepares to depart, while an arriving ocean liner jostles with attentive tugboats. Fading sunlight is reflected in the waters of the harbor. The imagery is interspersed with quotations from Walt Whitman, who is left unnamed.
Themes
- city portrait
- silent film
- manhattan, new york city
- city symphony
- short film
- poetic documentary
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- Manhatta
- Film.runtime
- 10 minutes
- Film.country
- United States
- Film.language
- Silent filmEnglish intertitles
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- publication date
- 1922-01-01
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- Manhatta
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thumb|upright=1.15|thumbtime=5|Full film Manhatta (1921) is a short documentary film directed by painter Charles Sheeler and photographer Paul Strand.
==Production background== Manhatta documents the early 20th-century look of Manhattan. With the city as subject, the film consists of 65 shots sequenced in a loose non-narrative structure, beginning with the Staten Island ferry approaching Manhattan and concludes with a sunset view from a skyscraper. Often considered by some to be the first American avant-garde film, its primary objective is to explore the relationship between photography and film. Camera movement is kept to a minimum, as is incidental motion within each shot. Each frame provides a view of the city that has been carefully arranged into abstract compositions, capturing the rhythmic patterns of the emerging metropolis.Manhatta was a collaboration between painter/photographer Charles Sheeler and photographer Paul Strand. The film features intertitles that include excerpts from the writings of Walt Whitman.