“NEW YORK“ 1950s NEW YORK CITY & STATE TRAVELOGUE FILM GENEVA, ALBANY, NEWBURGH, ITHACA XD60984

Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website “New York” is a late 50s-era silent, color travelog film by Harry D. Blanchard, an amateur American filmmaker who made beautiful movies about American life (see another from our collection here: ). This film features footage from Harry’s travels around the state of New York from state parks with impressive waterfalls to New York City with all of its splendors and finally Niagara Falls at the Canadian border. Opening credits (0:07). Perhaps maroon Oldsmobile Series 60 drives across flooded road (0:18). Buttermilk Falls State Park, Ithaca: Various views of waterfall framed by spring foliage (0:25). Pinnacle Rock (1:16). More waterfalls (1:46). Taughannock Falls (3:08). View from high lookout point of Cayuga Lake (3:25). Ithaca town center, perhaps First Presbyterian Church Ithaca sticks out above the trees (3:34). Different viewpoints and angles of perhaps Ithaca Falls (3:44). Fall Creek Suspension Bridge (4:28). Shequaga “Tumbling” Falls (6:05). Boy plays fetch with small lap dog in front of Coca-Cola insignia attached to sign for Hotel Port Byron (6:32). Port Byron town center: tourist sign with information about Brigham Young, 1950s Nash Ambassador and other retro vehicles parked around town, busy street lined with commercial shops (6:38). Kids wade in shallow water of Finger Lakes Beach, women in 50s-era bathing suits sit on picnic blanket (7:29). “Our Lady of Peace” statue in Pulteney Park, Geneva, NY commemorating veterans of Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I (7:35). Passengers line up on sidewalk to board Greyhound Bus (7:43). Watkins Glen State Park, stone bridge crossing, Stone Bridge over Rainbow Falls (7:51). Views of water flowing through tight stone valleys, stunning visuals of light peeking through crevices, white water contrasts slate gray-colored stone (8:26). 180 steps of Jacob’s Ladder, camera pans up to reveal railroad bridge over Watkins Glen Gorge (10:38). Derrick of Watkins Salt Well #1 (12:56). Captain Palmer’s Lake Ride Watkins Glen, NY - views of waterfalls, jagged tree-lined cliffs lining lake (13:03). Rainbow Lake Gorge lodging, restaurant, boat tour (13:46). Moses Fountain in Washington Park, Albany NY (14:02). Flowers around the park: “Orange Wonder” Albany Tulip other red, orange, yellow tulips (14:30). New Lebanon, NY Lady of Lourdes Shrine (14:52). Fire-damaged ruins of former restaurant called “Bonfire Restaurant and Bar ”(15:27). Saratoga Spa State Park in Saratoga Springs: Hall of Springs, Roosevelt Baths (15:50). Glen Falls, NY: Aqueduct, Coopers Cave, Lake George (16:42). Different views of Lake Champlain Bridge (17:47). Ausable Chasm “Grand Canyon of the Adirondacks,” Horseshoe Falls, Elephant’s Head rock formation, Fold and Fault valley, Jacob’s Well (18:20). Visitors marvel at notes, mementos left behind by other tourists that are plastered to cave wall; visitors embark on small boat tours into the canyon (20:13). Washington Headquarters built by Colonel John Brinckerhoff, Newburgh, NY (21:07). Grave stone for last of the Washington’s Life Guards Uzal Knapp (22:12). Mount Beacon, camera pans tracks of Mt. Beacon incline railway that runs through thick forest of trees (22:26). View from peak of Mt. Beacon, POV looking down track from top of mountain (22:38). Newburgh Beacon Ferry (22:29). Greenwich Village, New York City: Washington Square Arch and Chrysler Building in background (26:12). Poet’s Corner - men in half suits loiter on street corner, papers tacked to temporary blue construction walls (26:44). Fifth Avenue Coach Company double-decker tourist bus drives through Washington Square Park (27:06). View of Empire State Building, tourists gather on observation deck, views of Pan Am building (MetLife), Chrysler Building (27:18). Herald Square - James Gordon Bennett Memorial (28:11). Prometheus statue, display of Royal crown jewels Rockefeller Center (28:20). Grant’s Tomb Riverside Drive (28:46). Ellis Island, Statue of Liberty seen from deck of Statue of Liberty Ferry (29:29). Statue of Liberty National Monument, various eagles of statue, New York City skyline, East River (29:55). Staten Island Ferry pulls out of terminal (30:40). Glenerie Falls, Esopus Creek along the N.Y. State Highway (30:58). Whiteface Memorial Highway in Lake Placid, NY: views of Whiteface Mountain, Summit House of Whiteface Mountain (31:11). Niagara Falls (33:09). Film ends (36:01). This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit