New York City 1985

A super-8 time trip! Lovingly restored home movie footage of my trip to NYC in spring '85. Thought I'd throw in some stupid music to match the frantic pace, too. There'll be more soon!

Here's some background, if you're interested...
I was on a roadtrip with some college classmates to NYC for some seminars or something. I was a film 101 student, so I brought a movie camera along with just one reel of film. We had 2 days in the city, staying at a hotel near Penn Station., and I managed to slip out Saturday to see and film the Big Apple!
Realizing I had only 3 minutes of film, I thought I'd try to cram as much stuff in as I can. I went to Penn Station and found the A Train. Recalling a Glen Miller song, I rode that up 125th St.. I got out of the station and was going to film, when I realized there sure were alot of empty houses, stripped cars, and needles lying around. Got back to the station and rode to somewhere around central park.
Most of the footage is between there and the UN building, where I somehow ran into my friends (this was before cell phones!). We toured the UN and stuff, ending up at the World Trade Center around 6 pm or so... Too dark for home movie film to see anything, so I have no footage of WTC or the awesome view.
The statue and teddy bear were filmed out near the hotel the next morning, using up the film.

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[skymunro]

Yo man...all this shit is, is a bumch of video reel clips of CPW from Columbus circle to the Dakota on 72nd st...a 13 block radius is hardly the city....

[DundrHed]

Ok I had only a few hours of light for filming...I traveled from 125th Street to WTC. Didn't film much as it was a dim day in March , and all I had was my Kodachrome.

[DundrHed]

So many views, I'm gonna re-scan this one in HD! Coming soon might have diffrnt soundtrack mebbee

[LeoGorcey]

Too many damn zoom shots. I lived in New York in 1985; this video in no ay brings it back.

[DundrHed]

ok so I suck as a film maker. All the zooms were supposed to be my impression of NYC as a country-boy tourist.

[KungFuChess]

footage isnt that great

[reggeanation]

Wtf am I doing here? This always happens to me when I'm high as fuk lol soo trippy

[felixrade13]

Dios mio do not know how to use the camera

;)

[tsiailoui]

you suck

[thehaircrow]

I THINK IT COULD USE A LITTLE MORE ZOOMING IN

[ioriorioriorio]

I hope you quit your film school aspirations: this really sucks

[DohaRoha]

You really needed to get out more if you were in NYC> 

[courageous917]

to much zooming wha were u thinking

[sabracadabra1956]

Dude this is an insult to New York

[TLJAWSIMIB]

What's with this crappy asshole of music, seriously, shot!. New York City is so much more simple, peaceful, way more quiet, way more opened up, and there was way more sexier looking prostitutes back then, seriously. Now it completely sucks asshole now. And, by the way, the Empire State Building was shot upside-down.

[CrisOC30]

You people need to clean up your language. You shouldn't be using that language Online.