Panorama of Riker's Island, N.Y., Thomas A. Edison, Inc
Type
Label
Panorama of Riker's Island, N.Y., Thomas A. Edison, Inc
Language
eng
Characteristic
motion picture
Main title
Panorama of Riker's Island, N.Y.
Medium
electronic resource
Oclc number
701797934
Responsibility statement
Thomas A. Edison, Inc
Runtime
2
Series statement
New York at the turn of the centuryAmerican history in video
Summary
The film was photographed from a boat going around Riker's Island. Located on the East River north of Hell Gate between the Bronx and Queens, Riker's Island was the site of a massive New York City landfill operation at the time of the filming (originally eighty-seven acres, by 1939 the size of the island had increased to four hundred acres). The film includes scenes of heavy equipment at work, including pile drivers constructing the seawall and steam shovels unloading rubbish from barges. On one of the steam shovels, a sign reading "Water Front Improvement Co., 220 Broadway, New York" can be distinguished. Near the end of the film, a narrow-gauge steam engine with five open cars loaded with landfill, comes into view. The island is currently the site of a New York City penitentiary
Technique
live action
Contributor
Subject
- Sanitary landfills -- New York (State) -- New York
- Barges -- New York (State) -- New York
- Waste disposal sites -- New York (State) -- New York
- Narrow gauge railroads -- New York (State) -- New York
- Refuse and refuse disposal -- New York (State) -- New York
- Rivers -- New York (State) -- New York
- Islands -- New York (State) -- New York
- East River (N.Y.)
- Rikers Island (N.Y.)
- Construction equipment -- New York (State) -- New York
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Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Contributor2
- Subject10
- Sanitary landfills -- New York (State) -- New York
- Barges -- New York (State) -- New York
- Waste disposal sites -- New York (State) -- New York
- Narrow gauge railroads -- New York (State) -- New York
- Refuse and refuse disposal -- New York (State) -- New York
- Rivers -- New York (State) -- New York
- Islands -- New York (State) -- New York
- East River (N.Y.)
- Rikers Island (N.Y.)
- Construction equipment -- New York (State) -- New York
- camera1
- Other version2
- Mapped to1