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A very interesting film about life in New York city more than 110 years ago. The original title of this film is “New York of Today“ and was made by the Thomas Edison film company in 1910. It shows scenes in the more affluent parts of New York whereby a young couple is being followed by the camera from the moment that they leave their luxurious hotel until in the evening as they travel by a “Seeing New York“ car for tourists. Among other they visit the Coney Island amusement park. For more information, see the time line (draft below). This film has been motion-stabilized, drastically speed-corrected, restored, enhanced and colorized with modern video software based on A.I. (Artificial Intelligence). Music: Howard Harper Barnes & Trevor Kowalski. Source: Timeline (please help to improve this): 00:00 Couple leaving the expensive New York Plaza hotel 00:14 Grants Tomb 00:23 Horse drawn carriages at Central Park 00:35 The couple have boarded a “Seeing New York“ tourist car 00:50 Building (?) 00:58 Columbus Circle and a billboard for the famous Hippodrome theater 01:02 Base of the statue of (?) 01:06 Times Square 01:28 There's that “Seeing New York“ car again! 01:48 Times Square 02:19 Street scene 02:35 Entrance with stairs to the Elevated Trains (the “El“) 03:10 Entrance to Coney Island Fun Fair 03:18 The couple enter after having shown their tickets 03:30 Buying bird food for the pigeons 03:54 Feeding the pigeons 04:14 Down the famous water chute 04:34 Not quite a soft landing on the water... 05:13 Going down the mountain 05:52 Very rare glimpses of how Coney Island center court used to be 06:18 Don't rock the bridge! 06:34 Wall Street and the New York Stock Exchange 06:58 Chinatown, the Chinese quarter of New York 07:16 Local market 07:56 The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company 08:05 Location (?) 08:22 Panning up the Metropolitan Life tower, 1 Madison Avenue 08:52 The Flat Iron building on the corner of 23 Street Broadway and 5th Avenue 09:20 Panning up the Flat Iron Building 09:38 The End. The couple in this film may be film movie stars from the silent film period or famous Broadway stage artists, considering how they seem to be acting before the camera all the time. Can anybody identify them? Update: A viewer has identified them as possibly being Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontaine, famous theatre stars of the day and for years after! Please do not use my video material without permission and please contact us if you have any copyright or other issues via: ricksfilmrestoration@
