View of high rise buildings and skyscrapers, subway and highway in New York City from moving vehicle (brief POV shot). Motorists in a tunnel or bridge entrance merge area in New York City. Heavy traffic congestion at the merge, possibly at a tunnel entrance. Many 1960's and 1970's vehicles including cars and trucks jockeying for progress in the slow traffic jam.
Video about famous African American collagist, artist Romare Bearden, in New York. View of 1970s car and truck traffic on Canal Street at lower east side intersection of Canal Street and Broadway in New York City. A man walking to the apartment of Romare Bearden. Sign on mailbox reads "Romare Bearden and Rohan, Top Floor". View of an African American painter and sculptor walking on city streets and then heading toward the Cinque Gallery of art at 20 West 72nd Street in New York City. Romare Bearden with people at the Cinque Gallery displaying the works of the artist. People look at the man's paintings and sculpture. Romare tells of his time as a young artist trying to get started in the Great Depression. Still images of unemployed men in a line. Views of other artists and writers Bearden would work with and share studio space including Jacob Lawrence and Claude McKay and Charles Alston. Group picture of the a group of African American artists and intellectuals of the time who knew each other. Bearden with his wife, the dancer Nanette Bearden, at his home studio. Mrs. Bearden brings him a drink and sits and watches Romare Bearden work on a collage. Close-up views of a collage that Bearden is working on, which focuses on themes of the African American experience.
Construction of the World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York City. A small model of the buildings. A pilot seated in cockpit of helicopter. Aerial view of the city of New York with its tall buildings, viewed from the height and location of the not-yet-completed World Trade Center. Workers construct the World Trade Center building. One of the twin towers partially completed. A steel worker, John McCeever stands in front of the building and talks about his participation in building the tallest building in the world. Views of cranes, steel beams, and workers building one of the towers.
View of a sign board at the future site of "The Congress of Italian-American Organization -- A Day Center for Children and Senior Citizens of Little Italy" and "Police Headquarters Manhattan City" marking the future location of the New York City Police Headquarters building (completed 1973) in New York City. Exterior view of New York City Hall, between Broadway and Park Row in lower Manhattan.
View of the steeple tower of St Paul's Chapel of Trinity Church (Trinity Wall Street). Behind it is the twin towers of the World Trade Center. The twin towers are nearly completed, but still under construction.
View of pedestrians and motorists in a street in New York City. The pedestrians exit the 'Department of Marine Aviation' in lower Manhattan.