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Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler's Manhatta
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Friday Nov 14, 2008 (6:15pm)
Saturday Nov 15, 2008 (2pm)
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$10
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Tonight's vintage New York-on-reels program affirms a timeless Whitman line: "it avails not, neither time or place — distance avails not." As it happens, borough-centric portions of Leaves of Grass inspired this evening's highlight, Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand's digitally restored 1921 short Manhatta. Cited as America's first avant-garde film, the documentary transports spectators back to the sepia era with 65 abstract, near-still shots of our beloved city, beginning with ferry commuters from Staten Island and ending with a beautiful Hudson River sunset. Lumière cameraman Alexandre Promio's verité footage from 1896 and Francis Thompson's Cubist, day-in-the-life short, N.Y., N.Y, offer additional looks at our metropolis throughout the fast-fading years.
