The City (1939 Documentary)

[@lyolevrich]

Aaron Copland the Gold musician! Thank You to put the documentary!

[@tnaoro]

11:42 The Metropolis - Men into Steel (Manhattan) The Highway - The Endless City (Sunday traffic congestion in New York City)

[@winstonli8081]

Who came here from URPN 201 (700)?

[@dangerdave1024]

Me but not 700

[@vernetto]

the Choice is very simple: the Rich lives in nice residential areas with gardens, schools, amenities and public facilities, the Poor lives in depressing areas with no services.

[@zephc]

Urban isn't BAD, per se, but in car-oriented environments like the ones depicted in the film (and which persist today), the city is actively hostile towards pedestrian traffic. We don't need giant car-oriented cities, but we also don't need large, sprawling suburbs either, because - guess what - they're car oriented too. Want to go to the store? You can either drive, or spend the next 40-50 minutes walking there (assuming you're lucky enough to have sidewalks the whole way there).

[@allimagnelli4043]

i copy and pasted this for my homework. TAHNKS!

[@matthews1794]

I would love to watch this but I am hard of hearing and I need subtitles. Please subtitle your videos on KZbin!

[@GinaGoettl]

Hi Matthew - there's actually no audio narration on this film (just music).

[@GinaGoettl]

Actually there is a little bit of narration, but not much.

[@MusicMan-dv7jg]

On my KZbin I click on the settings and captions in English are available.

[@matthews1794]

@@MusicMan-dv7jg auto generated captions are not appropriate for deaf viewers.

[@tomtrask_YT]

@@MusicMan-dv7jg worth noting that this (your) post is 5 years after the original post and maybe it's a new feature (autogenerated captions are better than nothing but this is a new feature iirc)

[@DanielBryce]

Greendale, Wisconsin; Greenbelt, Maryland; Greenhills, Ohio and Radburn, New Jersey.

[@patzimmer1052]

Greendale is a decent little place

[@allimagnelli4043]

Take 30 minutes to watch most of this video about cities in mid-1900s America. What do you notice? What is different then? What are people worried about and what are they excited about, that you can tell?

[@allimagnelli4043]

do this

[@jasonenosart]

14:57 predating Koyaanisqatsi by about 40 years. Also, compare to Skyscrapers by John Alden Carpenter.

[@tnaoro]

Finnish! I found this comment

[@daniellumertz7508]

wow

[@daniellumertz7508]

2:25 predating the lord of the rings

[@helianaangottisalgueiro3976]

I would like to know to whom should I ask for the rights (if they exist)to use some extracts of the film The City, for cultural purposes, in a video in a university museum exhibition? Thanks for informing me. Professor Heliana Salgueiro, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

[@dylanray5331]

The US National Archives posted this video, I would pull from that and reference the archives

[@Riema505]

That moment when you realize this documentary is before WWII 😢 Little did they know 💔

[@smadaf]

A better copy (closer to the original) was uploaded by the National Archives: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3ivYp2Qab-rrJo

[@alphonsocarioti512]

Then two years later...

[@sergiomiranda9893]

I´m going to use it with my students

[@sthomas997]

I feel bad for your students then

[@CharlesDenison]

Fascinating! Were any cities actually built based on these ideas?

[@Krizbonz]

Many planners attempted but failed to achieve the pure idea, because this vision required a strong socialist state. I know Rochester in New York is a more successful example. Non-the-less many cities today have been greatly influenced in a good way from the criticism of the industrial city.

[@tnaoro]

Yes, Charles. All of them. (Except Hollywood)

[@thewinger337]

ideas like this are what spawned the massive growth of suburban complexes in the US, levittowns and such, in the 1950s. we have tried it, it hasnt worked.

[@maydom04]

@@thewinger337 I prefer spacious suburbs rather than crowded tenements.

[@MrJackPD]

fantastic documentary

[@tnaoro]

11:42 Welcome to the city!

[@Hyperxonic]

I feel like watching some old Disney animation lol

[@anazatezaloschenk358]

My students will see it this Summer AA School Berlin Animalesque!

[@tnaoro]

You mean 11:42?

[@Krizbonz]

2030 Solution : replace all these dam cars and roads with bikes and parks!

[@allimagnelli4043]

ok

[@dougcl_]

People wanted cars and suburban life.

[@humbertohuergo7249]

Nostalgic demonization of urban living.

[@nickcollins2001]

Is this George Carlin?

[@yerinaltinda6022]

ERÜ ŞBP BURDAYDI..

[@tnaoro]

WHAT?