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.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• New
• York
• subway
• 1986
• railway
• railroad
• train
• timesquare
• 42nd
• platform
• NYC
• trains
• sound
• nyc
• city
• manhattan
• graffiti
• station
• audio

[mtanyc]

R.I.P the real New York City...

Now it's for the rich only and you have very little rights and freedoms.

A special thank you for the person who took the time to film and upload this...

thank you...

[NealHyde]

This is WILD! My first time in NYC was 1998 ... and I moved here this January. Cannot believe how graffiti-ed the trains and on the inside too. I'm in this station on an almost daily basis, so its amazing to see it in "another life". The signage is all different, yet I still recognize it. Thank you for this!

[xobailee]

I wish is it still looked like this

[8bobthebuilder]

It looks grimy and gritty but i enjoyed this historic video a lot -- it's in such good quality too.

[twintowers1970]

Oh man :( I miss the graffiti-ed trains of the nyct

[SuperCoolDude2014]

idk they had a K train

[SuperCoolDude2014]

film is better than vhs

[137913792011]

@130513Patrick in soviet russia you Don't drive car, car drives YOU

[Hinklish]

This a great capture of time and place.

[DolzaB]

OMG I could understand the guy on the loudspeaker!!!

[redgenner]

amazing pictures and sound. thanks for posting! I have a D6C but not those expensive sounding mics you mention!, great stereo audio you've captured too - stereo really makes the footage come alive. I didn't see your music version but I would probably like it better the way it is now - unadulterated. I kinda like all the graffiti too, I think the location might look rather bland and dead without it. a real film art journal entry!

[mtanyc]

@tokemarton go toke your marton again a get cancer you waste of life..

you must have gotten gangbanged by a bunch of bikers and caught aids..hahaha dumbfuck