Filmed from the Brooklyn tower of the bridge, this is a panorama starting at Manhattan's Battery and then panning northward along the East River shoreline. Reportedly filmed somewhere between 1897 - 1899, though not copyrighted until 1903.
Watch the official Panorama from the Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge 1899 trailer in HD below.
United States 20 May 1899
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The view was taken from the tower on the Brooklyn side of the bridge. As the film begins the camera is looking southwest towards the southern tip of Manhattan ...
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13 December 1899
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19 April 1899
Sovereigns and their suite passing in front of the monument to Victor Emmanuel II in Sassari.
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Women getting onto a rickshaw.
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26 May 1899
Traffic and crowd in front of the stalls of a street market.
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Some men get into hijinks at a sidewalk cafe. There is no known credited director for this film, although the attribution usually goes for Alice Guy.
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