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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27 September 1899
The Shamrock is seen after its defeat in the 1899 America's Cup, along with the Erin, which served as its tow boat across the Atlantic.
31 December 1899
A train heads for a tunnel. In one car, a restless man smokes, and a woman is reading on the seat opposite him.
23 May 1899
A reenactment of a scene inside Devil's Island prison.
01 January 1899
A man makes twenty complete changes in two minutes, combining with them dances. The changes are made in full sight of the audience.
31 December 1899
Carriages and crowds cross a grassy area.
10 March 1899
This view represents the passage of a decorated chariot; The many spectators fight with confetti.
30 April 1899
Vietnamese children collect coins that are thrown them by two aristocratic ladies.
11 June 1899
One minute clip of the famous Paris boulevard.
04 November 1899
The first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to the then contemporaneous Dreyfus affair in which a Jewish military officer was falsely convicted of treason, and it was alleged that he was framed due to anti-semitism.
28 October 1899
Two gondolas, slowly approaching, dock along the wharf, and both Italian and German sovereigns disembark: Umberto I accompanied by Wilhelm II, and Margherita of Savoy accompanied by Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein.
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