New York Subway 1986 NYC -directors cut- with stereo audio track.mpg

The story: in 1986 I made a round trip through the USA and Canada. The starting point was New York. So I filmed some scenes in Manhattan. And was going in the underground at 43nd St & Timesquare. I filmed with a big ARRIflex 16mm camera with a 120m magazine with 7250 Kodak 16mm color reversal Tungsten 400 ASA film and a Schneider Cine Xenon 1:2/16mm lens . This equipment is good for 10 Minutes recording duration at 25 f/sec.
After I time a man comes to me and said, he´s a cameraman at ABC and filming at the subway is strictly forbidden without any permission and police is on the other end of the platform. So I was leaving the station, but I had these beautiful pics of the old times in the New York subway. At the same time I recorded the stereo sound with a SONY WM-D6C with two Sennheiser micros in stereo.

In 1986 I edited the pics to the song of the band "London Beat" -- "9am at a New York subway". About 25 years later I was uploading this movie to YouTube. But SONY Music was locking my movie because of the copyright of the song. So I deleted the audio track und was uploading the silence version. After the great response to this video of the New York subway of 1986 now I opened my archive once again with the original film and composed it with the original stereo sound to this over 10 minutes long "directors cut" of all scenes, I filmed at this day in June 1986. Enjoy it!

Thank you to Judy for telecine & color correction and Marion for the original sound recording.

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[J Matt]

What we lack in looks and cleanliness we make up for with 24/7 service all day, every day. There are only a hand full of cities around the world that do that. It's not about appearance...it's about getting where ever you want to go, when ever you want to go.

[sourhayes1]

I LIKE TRAINS

[RocketRodder]

it's so loud! that can cause hearing loss if something hasn't been done about the noise level :O

[DiverseLA]

True but the LA rail system has expanded a bit. There's two subway lines (red line & purple line), and if you count above-ground rail lines then there's another 4 lines.

[Brandon Vescovo]

LOL, you mean subway "line" with regards to LA.

[indyfan22k]

every usa city that has a subway should have 24/7 service. people live , work and play at all hours.

[KidKaimera]

I've been to over 15 cities so far in my life. NYC still wins.

[westminsk]

Кокое же оно страшное, это метро Нью-Йорка, в Минске как в музее.

[DiverseLA]

The train lines in NYC are very old. Visit the subway lines like in L.A. or the San Francisco Bay Area and you will see clean lines.

[jackdoble2]

there isnt time to clean them! 24/7 service

[Christian Vera]

And speaking relatively, it really isn't even that dirty !

[mpmarvin999]

Brings back memories. I used the Subway heavily until 1987 when I graduated from high school. Bronx to Brooklyn and back 5 days a week, then running with friends on the weekends. Funny thing is even though it's mostly the footage and camera from back in the day it really was pretty dark and dim as it looked in the footage. lol

This is the time when NY had "flavor".