Opening the Williamsburg Bridge

Resource Information

The work Opening the Williamsburg Bridge represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Opening the Williamsburg Bridge

Statement of responsibility

American Mutoscope and Biograph Company

Title variation

• Opening the Williamsburg Bridge [New York City]
• Opening of Williamsburg Bridge

Contributor

• American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
• Bitzer, G. W., 1872-1944

Subject

• Actuality -- Short
• Bridges -- New York (State) | New York
• East River (N.Y.)
• Parades -- New York (State) | New York
• Photojournalists -- New York (State) | New York
• Press -- New York (State) | New York
• Williamsburg Bridge (New York, N.Y.)

Genre

• Actuality

Language

eng

Summary

The film was shot on the roadway of the newly constructed Williamsburg Bridge. The first people to come into view are press photographers carrying large wooden "box" cameras. Next, a parade of dignitaries and military representatives, accompanied by members of the press, is photographed passing the camera position led by a standard bearer whose banner reads "MAYOR". The mayor of New York was Seth Low, a lame-duck at the time of filming, having been defeated in November, 1903 by George B. McClellan. The Williamsburg Bridge, a combined cantilever and suspension bridge, crosses the East River from Delancey and Clinton Streets, Manhattan, to Roebling and S. 5th Streets, Williamsburg. Built at a cost of twelve million dollars, it held two lanes of roadway, two "L" tracks, four trolley tracks, and two promenades. It was the largest suspension bridge in the world at the time

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Cataloging source

DLC

Characteristic

motion picture

Credits note

Camera, G.W. "Billy" Bitzer

Runtime

1

Series statement

• New York at the turn of the century
• American history in video

Technique

live action