Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Hypnotic Pictures
Outerborough on the Web:Official Website
Outerborough
Audience Score
DirectorBill Morrison
9 minDocumentary
Plot
In 1899, a photographer at American Mutoscope & Biograph mounted his camera on the front of a trolley traveling over the Brooklyn Bridge. The three 90-foot rolls he created were edited together to complete the journey from Manhattan to Brooklyn, entitled Across the Brooklyn Bridge. As a commission by the Museum of Modern Art for the re-opening of their facility, American avant-garde filmmaker Bill Morrison took this remarkable footage and recombined it with itself to form a new split-screen extrapolation.
