Wonderful New York 1961. In Technirama and Technicolor by Pan American Airlines.

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  • A magnificent New York time capsule released by Pan American Airlines to entice you to visit New York. And that it does, filmed in Technicolor and wide screen Technirama. The streets, the cars, the people, the buildings, the sites day and night. Fantastic aerial shots, Central Park, the Guggenheim, NY Stock Exchange, Times Square, the Statue of Liberty. Grants Tomb, George Washington Bridge, the suburbs, as you tour these places in an automobile. Redevelopment of the old neighborhoods. This travel film is a must see! Mastered from a 16mm Technicolor film.

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  • @HelenTudor-Douglas
    @HelenTudor-Douglas หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    I was born at Mount Sinai Hospital, June 1961 on 5th Ave. in Manhattan. I remember NY City looking like this, while I played in Central Park. The Biggest Thrill, was all of us going to New York World's Fair in Flushing during 1964-1965 & we got to meet Uncle Walt Disney! I still have my white hat with the blue feather in it, with my name embroidered in orange on the brim of my Fair hat. Happy Memories! Too bad all my family members & everyone I knew from back then, are all dead now, it's so long ago.

    • @MoviecraftInc
      @MoviecraftInc  หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Thanks for sharing your recollections.

    • @lizzabbott
      @lizzabbott 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Yes ! I was born in 1960 & went to the Worlds Fair from Buffalo, with my dear late parents. Unforgettable

    • @lynnjames6629
      @lynnjames6629 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Things may change and time passes, but the precious memories that bring us joy live on forever‼️ 💯👍🙂

  • @chrisikaris5891
    @chrisikaris5891 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

    Amazing to see the old Pan Am airport terminal operating as it was originally designed to.

  • @1940limited
    @1940limited 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    I remember when NYC was like this. Not even close anymore!

    • @johnmc3862
      @johnmc3862 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Can't beat the nostalgic comments!

    • @liamsandal6360
      @liamsandal6360 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@johnmc3862 What's wrong with nostalgia, John?

  • @tonycollazorappo
    @tonycollazorappo ปีที่แล้ว +125

    If this was shot in 1961, then it was made on the year that I was born. I was born in Brooklyn New York. I enjoyed the 60s and 70s so very much and would go back in a heartbeat.

    • @KD-nk3ht
      @KD-nk3ht 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thess cau you ignunce. Skrate up ignunce.

    • @yvonneplant9434
      @yvonneplant9434 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      You take your smart phone with you. 😅

    • @Sonnycorleone162
      @Sonnycorleone162 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Tony, I was born in the late 1960's in New Jersey, and I enjoyed the 1970's very much. My family went to Disneyworld back then and had a lot of fun with friends. We visited New York often. All the best.

    • @lisakraemer1453
      @lisakraemer1453 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I was born in October 1961 in Asheville, NC.

    • @Stacie45
      @Stacie45 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Born in Sept. 1961 in Seattle. My Dad was from New Jersey, in Aug. 1976 he took me to NYC, among other things we went up in the World Trade Center, stood on the observation platform on the roof. Bygone era.

  • @paullewis2413
    @paullewis2413 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    “Not everyone can stay at the Waldorf”. Well as a 21 year old on my first visit I did”. I had been in awe of that hotel since I was a kid and it was like a dream come true. I loved the city then but sadly no more, it’s completely changed and overall not for the better. Such is life.

    • @1940limited
      @1940limited 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Loved that Rolls Royce parked out front. It was always a treat to see one of those when in NYC back in this day.

  • @joeyjennings9548
    @joeyjennings9548 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    i was born in brooklyn ny. i have good memories of the 1960's 70's & 80's 🌇🌆 i feel old will become new again. people will return to this simple time again. it was a special time 😁

    • @MoviecraftInc
      @MoviecraftInc  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Well said

    • @studimeglio7110
      @studimeglio7110 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I was three years old then. Brooklyn too. Fond memories of those eras. To think majority of those ppl walking in the streets are dead by now.

    • @c.a.g.3130
      @c.a.g.3130 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Remarkable how clean and traffic-free New York was in 1961.

  • @poitor5915
    @poitor5915 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    new york looked better back then than today 💪🏼

    • @notabot2928
      @notabot2928 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      Very little crime and no moral decay and no internet or cell phones. A few channels on a black and white TV 📺 playing andy griffith or leave it to beaver. There is no comparison today to the American experience in the 1950s and early 60s. Its never coming back

    • @davidlamb7524
      @davidlamb7524 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I was there in '57. As I remember the sound of police sirens was near continuous. It got worse in the 60s. According to the stats the crime rate was worse in '62 than it is now.
      I think we are better informed now so it just seems worse.
      www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2Fa%2Fa9%2FMURDERS_IN_NEW_YORK_CITY_BY_YEAR.png%2F500px-MURDERS_IN_NEW_YORK_CITY_BY_YEAR.png&tbnid=DvuHuIZaaDhmIM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCrime_in_New_York_City&docid=CJJij1PDYmVauM&w=500&h=309&hl=en-GB&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm1%2F4

    • @whereisthedollar
      @whereisthedollar 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      It was, LOL. This may have been the highlight.

    • @soundshaper
      @soundshaper 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @@notabot2928 Very little crime, huh? Wonder what the guys delivering milk to Hell's Kitchen or the south Bronx on the days it was time to collect the money would have to say about that. I wasn't around in the 50s but my relatives told me you didn't hang out east of the 3rd Av El back then, due to Irish and Italian gangs. I generally agree with your sentiment, overall the city was nicer, despite the choking air pollution from garbage incinerators and unchecked vehicle emissions. And the 70s were shit, but I still had fun in NYC, you could get away with smoking weed in the movie theaters by then or at MSG during a concert. The attitude was more fun and spirited in those days.

    • @notabot2928
      @notabot2928 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@soundshaper Of course there was crime but it’s nothing like it was now and if you think that and you’re going to use Hells kitchen as some excuse to say it’s the same as now you’re just completely delusional

  • @kgblankinship
    @kgblankinship หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I was in NYC that year for Christmas, at age 5. I can't believe how clean the city was back then.

  • @newmankidman5763
    @newmankidman5763 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    If I had a Time Machine, I would flee into the Past to get away from mobile phones.

    • @joedimaggio3687
      @joedimaggio3687 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      And you told us this from your smartphone.

    • @newmankidman5763
      @newmankidman5763 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@joedimaggio3687, no, of course not. Every time I get home from work, I turn off my mobile phone. I do not like phones.

    • @user-pt4nb3gt3b
      @user-pt4nb3gt3b หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @newmankidman== about that TIME MACHINE you are looking for to ESCAPE INTO 1961 here you are=== CON EDISON MONTHLY BILL $24:00***PHONE BILL $**7:00** MONTH***CHINESE DINNER delivered for 50 cent tip=== DUCK & LOBSTER SAUCE///LARGE CHICKEN CHOW MAIN/// LARGE FRIED RICE///LARGE WHITE RICE///4 EGG ROLLS///25 FORTUNE COOKIES///25 SOY SAUCE PACKS & 25 DUCK SAUCE PACKS///PLATIC FORKS & SPOONS (why not??)///LARGE EGG DROP SOUP=== $$**6:55** TOTAL with enough left over for TOMORROWS MEAL********

    • @ADAMSIXTIES
      @ADAMSIXTIES หลายเดือนก่อน

      I hear Ted Kasinsky's cabin is available.

    • @newmankidman5763
      @newmankidman5763 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ADAMSIXTIES, so too is Marilyn Monroe's

  • @jacobrivers5728
    @jacobrivers5728 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I'm starting to think this was filmed at the peak of civilization because NYC has certainly regressed over the past 63 years.

    • @freelancelady
      @freelancelady หลายเดือนก่อน

      New York City was still good until the towers went down…after that time it seems everything got messed up… 😢😢😢

    • @1neAdam12
      @1neAdam12 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oy Vey!

  • @dougowens6180
    @dougowens6180 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Nyc best of times

  • @gennaio915
    @gennaio915 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    How the world was much more beautiful then !

    • @user-or6yn8pm3c
      @user-or6yn8pm3c หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Demographics.

    • @1neAdam12
      @1neAdam12 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      And White!

  • @cameravisionnyc
    @cameravisionnyc 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    I received my selective service draft card in 1959 which meantthat I could drink at a bar, went to Birdland the Jazz corner of the world that night, for the next 5 years I almost never was awake in daylight becoming a night time worker ,but what jazz music I was listening too ! My life was not like this travelogue and now wished I had a movie camera back then!

  • @vladilenkalatschev4915
    @vladilenkalatschev4915 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Beautiful fashion, beautiful vehicles, beautiful aircrafts - 60s❤

  • @shirleywatts99
    @shirleywatts99 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Born in 1957 but I love the 60's, I have the archive of Life Magazine on my computer only section I read are the magazines from the mid 60's.. Love to see old footage of the city, even back to the 40's and beyond and try to figure out what street that is and what is there now.

  • @petermendoza1170
    @petermendoza1170 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Lots of childhood memories
    Having been born in Manhattan and lived on 66th St across from Central Park in the 50s and 60s,the film showed so much of structures which were there at that time and no more. The Blue whale,for instance.❤

    • @thyslop1737
      @thyslop1737 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Forget all about the Blue Whale.

  • @stevenwaldman7313
    @stevenwaldman7313 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Great footage of Grand Central Parkway

    • @MoMoMyPup10
      @MoMoMyPup10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Was that airport JFK or LaGuardia?

  • @Diana-yn2ho
    @Diana-yn2ho หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    The good old days! The streets were generally clean; no graffiti; people were well dressed; crime was low, etc. I would love to go back to those days as an adult. I remember Pan Am Airlines. If I am not mistaken, my parents and I were passengers on Pan Am; I was a child at the time.

    • @allanzylbert1306
      @allanzylbert1306 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      NY in the 70's was graffiti every where

    • @Karl-dd4om
      @Karl-dd4om หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@allanzylbert1306 This was in the 60's!

    • @martian9999
      @martian9999 หลายเดือนก่อน

      there was trash everywhere back then. The streets were certainly not clean. Just check out historical photographs, not a a PR piece like this one. And the fumes from cars were terrible.

    • @Diana-yn2ho
      @Diana-yn2ho หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@martian9999 - Yes, it depended on the neighborhood - middle class or higher were usually cleaner. Yes, pollution came from the cars; technology was still developing. No era was perfect. There were and are positive as well as negatives in every time period.

    • @Diana-yn2ho
      @Diana-yn2ho หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It depends on the neighborhood. Suburbs were usually cleaner back then. Yes, vehicles and factories did pollute quite a bit. Hopefully technology will improve more and make the air/water purer.

  • @robertoalamo6353
    @robertoalamo6353 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    Fantastic video, the building, the cars , the people, central park, the cinemas whith big actors, Kirk Douglas, Clark Gable, Briggitte Bardot, Alan Ladd, Sofía Loren, thanks very much! bests regards from Santiago, Chile

    • @MoviecraftInc
      @MoviecraftInc  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Many thanks!

    • @yvonneplant9434
      @yvonneplant9434 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ladd and Gable were hasbeens by then.

    • @robertoalamo6353
      @robertoalamo6353 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@yvonneplant9434 Thanks ! best regards

    • @None-zc5vg
      @None-zc5vg หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@yvonneplant9434Gable was a dead "has been" by 1961 and Monroe would be gone in '62.

  • @farooqghory5432
    @farooqghory5432 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    New york city has always been amazing.

    • @paulgentile1024
      @paulgentile1024 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's a damn shame what the last two Mayors have done to help tear it down

  • @matrox
    @matrox 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    A few short years later I would visit NYC for the first time with my family to the 64-65 NY Worlds Fair.

    • @DSAK55
      @DSAK55 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      😃 me too

  • @user-ez6bw4xf1g
    @user-ez6bw4xf1g 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Beautiful NYC 60s .amazing video

    • @MoviecraftInc
      @MoviecraftInc  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Thanks for visiting

  • @davidoran123
    @davidoran123 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I miss Pan Am and those days, most of them anyway.

  • @letmebereal
    @letmebereal 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    Please God let me go back to then.

    • @penguin44ca
      @penguin44ca หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Bye. Go back to the past.

    • @nickslick75
      @nickslick75 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Lol. It's a propaganda movie, mate. Are you too smart to realise that? Lol

    • @coffeetime1001
      @coffeetime1001 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      After this life, you will because time is irrelevant.

  • @mattdon2164
    @mattdon2164 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    This is absolutely amazing. Thank you for posting. A priceless snapshot of Manhattan back in 1961. Seeing Tad's steaks off Times Square made me yearn for one of their juicy sizzling steaks.

    • @MoviecraftInc
      @MoviecraftInc  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you too!

    • @billybob1620
      @billybob1620 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      They had one of those in San Francisco until they closed it down a few years ago… Iconic

    • @iseegoodandbad6758
      @iseegoodandbad6758 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Hormone and antibiotic laden then. Thank goodness for Millenials demanding cleaner foods!!!

    • @mallorygraf8574
      @mallorygraf8574 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@billybob1620 Actually reopened...it's on Ellis Street right across from John's Grill.🙂

  • @gogogo39
    @gogogo39 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    The traffic on the roads seemed very light.

  • @AgathaLOutahere
    @AgathaLOutahere 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    Anyone of a certain age who grew up on Long Island remembers those wooden lampposts along the parkways.

    • @roncaruso931
      @roncaruso931 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I remember them on the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn where I grew up.

    • @MoMoMyPup10
      @MoMoMyPup10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@roncaruso931 Belt Parkway for sure but they were also out east on the other highways too. Seeing them instantly brought me back to those times.

  • @mmjhcb
    @mmjhcb หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    When it was exciting to be there. When Macy's was the biggest store in the world and floor after floor of fantastic merchandise. When Broadway was sublime and to see a movie in NYC was thrilling. Paddy's Clam House was there, the Taft Tap room, TV shows, and MLB baseball when it was still baseball. I will never return; I refuse to to be overcome with grief.

    • @vickimingus9281
      @vickimingus9281 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's still great. The opening of our borders. But it's still great. The new 20th century wow

    • @vickimingus9281
      @vickimingus9281 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I want so much to go to see the Yankees at home. My son said it's too bad but he watches the news around the clock, and he served 20 yr in service a Marine and he's been everywhere and all over the middle east. Trump saw big plans for the city he loved. His dad said maybe you need to start slowing on some of the large buildings and he said trust me...And well you can see for yours self......

    • @mmjhcb
      @mmjhcb หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@vickimingus9281 Whatttttt?

    • @serenadevon
      @serenadevon หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@vickimingus9281I have family that works there & he says it's a crime haven. Not surprised.🙄

    • @j.g.8494
      @j.g.8494 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      "I will never return; I refuse to be overcome with grief." Very moving comment.

  • @freelancelady
    @freelancelady หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I still remember the Pan Am building when I came to New York in 1987. 😊😊😊.

  • @Sonnycorleone162
    @Sonnycorleone162 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    New York 1961. A bit before my time. I was a 1970's kid from Jersey. But went to New York often. Love scenes at 12:47 "The Misfits" sign with Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe. And what's New York 1961 without movie sign "West Side Story at 12:15 on far right. Plus, Love the Ferry boat and Pan Am plane scenes! At 2:57 far right the guy still has his black 1940's car! Plus look at 6:28 the young lady on the horse. You really do not see this sort of thing anymore riding like that in New York! Thanks for the upload.

    • @MoviecraftInc
      @MoviecraftInc  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Glad to oblige...

  • @JJJBRICE
    @JJJBRICE 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Pan Am... A name in the past !

    • @doctorbohr1585
      @doctorbohr1585 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Too big to fail!

    • @timburr4453
      @timburr4453 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      it's embedded in my mind. Nomatter how long it's been when I think air travel...I think Pan-Am

    • @j.g.8494
      @j.g.8494 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      PAN AM - the ultimate in transatlantic jet travel in the early 1960s.

  • @doeleoe474
    @doeleoe474 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Wonderful video TY.
    I Remember going to the children’s Zoo in CP around 5 years old.

  • @user-zu3md5qz8y
    @user-zu3md5qz8y 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    wow , when life was so simple

    • @scarpfish
      @scarpfish 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No, not really.

    • @user-zu3md5qz8y
      @user-zu3md5qz8y 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@scarpfish when you have less crime

  • @jbarnes2288
    @jbarnes2288 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    RIP NY

    • @johnmc3862
      @johnmc3862 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😅

    • @liamsandal6360
      @liamsandal6360 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@johnmc3862 Oh, shut up.

    • @serenadevon
      @serenadevon หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      💯😫

  • @gregvassilakos
    @gregvassilakos 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    The narrator keeps referring to mist, but I suspect it is actually smog. Back then, coal was burned for heat and for electric power generation. Many cars used leaded gas, and none had catalytic converters.

    • @timburr4453
      @timburr4453 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It was smog. Remember it as a kid. On some brutally hot July/August days I swear you could taste it😖

    • @poitor9217
      @poitor9217 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yer looked like smog😩probably the cabs😅

  • @lonniebishop8814
    @lonniebishop8814 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Another well preserved gem, in wide-screen no less, by Moviecraft.

  • @Chrissy-rs8xl
    @Chrissy-rs8xl 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Wonderful video! This was all way before my time. But Woweee! If I was an adult young lady back then, I would have loved being a Pan Am Stewardess! Haha! Thanks for the upload. 😊♥

  • @OfficeofImageArchaeology
    @OfficeofImageArchaeology 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Great film Larry! Thanks for sharing.

  • @johnfachy393
    @johnfachy393 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Wonderful!! Thanks for posting!!

  • @Chrissy-rs8xl
    @Chrissy-rs8xl 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    At 9:51-9:55 I like the nice, clean-cut hair of the Cute boys on the ferry, young blonde lady dresses nicely. And man at 10:19 too! The males and females dressed up more back then! Good blast to the past video! ♥

    • @MoviecraftInc
      @MoviecraftInc  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you very much!

    • @MoMoMyPup10
      @MoMoMyPup10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That's all they ever wore in public. Men wore suits and the women wore dresses, even for food shopping or a ballgame. Kids wore whatever they could find for them! Hand-me-downs mostly.

  • @jasonpeters9295
    @jasonpeters9295 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I remember these times quite well.
    I couldn't help but smile at 1:12 when I saw the former name of JFK airport: New York International Airport, more commonly known back then as Idlewild Airport.

  • @szarefeen9744
    @szarefeen9744 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    New York was very cool city during those days, unlike today's influx of countless people from all sides. However, I do appreciate the style of this genuine American English accent through the narrator. I can't recall specifically now, but perhaps this person also narrated some other TV documentaries during 50s and 60s. Surely, we nowadays miss this kind of manly voice which was often heard then in movies and TV programmes.

    • @MoviecraftInc
      @MoviecraftInc  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks for sharing!

    • @EricLehner
      @EricLehner 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hello - Yes, the narrator's voice reminded me of this person, from that era: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_MacNeil

    • @jackmeeellleee4896
      @jackmeeellleee4896 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@EricLehner I am positive that it is Robert MacNeil. I recognize his distinctive voice. I watched the news hour with him and his partner Jim Lehrer on PBS often, back in the 1980s, when I was young.

    • @EricLehner
      @EricLehner 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jackmeeellleee4896 Excellent! Cheers from Canada...

  • @vandanerisgomes9009
    @vandanerisgomes9009 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Muito bom obrigada

  • @vulpo
    @vulpo หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The Empire State Building looks so majestic poking up through the smog.

  • @herecomesforego1787
    @herecomesforego1787 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Hello World ! The pinnacle of western and world civilization before WW3 will be recognized to have transpired in mid 20th century New York City… Very proud I was born in Manhattan and raised in Brooklyn at that time… incomparable perch from which to survey and judge millennia, thank you and good night😅🎉

  • @cesarvargas1124
    @cesarvargas1124 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    So iconic in the past, now New York is old news

    • @TheMisterGriswold
      @TheMisterGriswold 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Nonsense.

    • @liamsandal6360
      @liamsandal6360 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@TheMisterGriswold Oh, it's done like dinner. I'm a Bronxite born and raised. New York is long past her glory.

    • @TheMisterGriswold
      @TheMisterGriswold หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@liamsandal6360 Bollocks.

    • @liamsandal6360
      @liamsandal6360 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@TheMisterGriswold Stop upvoting your own comments, Mister.

  • @EricLehner
    @EricLehner 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    From a time when people had a more civilized appearance. The woman in the white dress reminds me of so many neighbourhood mothers and teachers of that day: 15:18

    • @timburr4453
      @timburr4453 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      heck you still see white gloves here and there

  • @walteralbertoruiznieto7281
    @walteralbertoruiznieto7281 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    🎉😊
    Qué emoción una película de New York. Recordaré mi amada ciudad❤❤❤❤

  • @james5460
    @james5460 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    42nd Street before it ... changed. I've spent a lot of time at pretty much every spot shown in this, and it's all the same physically, and it hadn't changed too much from my early days, but society was just about to get hit with a hammer. They were keeping up with the maintenance then, but that began to fail soon after. People dressed well, and that changed soon, too. The 1960s were a real turning point for NYC, this caught it right before all the issues. It's amusing that the narrator says "The winds of change blow strongly" - they just blew in the opposite direction than he was implying.

    • @paul41to45
      @paul41to45 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      well said

  • @johnmenendez79
    @johnmenendez79 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    JFK was then called New York International Airport (1:11).

    • @doctorbohr1585
      @doctorbohr1585 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      AKA Idelwild Airport in those days.

  • @perezfecto
    @perezfecto หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    God I love the 60s. Early 60s, that is

  • @mehmetyanilmaz1167
    @mehmetyanilmaz1167 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Narrated by Robert MacNeil, later the co-producer and presenter of MacNeil Lehrer Report at PBS.

    • @pjalsen
      @pjalsen หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Except the opening credits list narrator: Robert Ware

  • @utuBrV1oI
    @utuBrV1oI หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Love the sound of those early jets & their sleek much smaller engines much less likely to ingest birds.

  • @dingdong5379
    @dingdong5379 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Loved the video, better than todays 4k videos

  • @edgardoortizayala6379
    @edgardoortizayala6379 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Wonderful

    • @MoviecraftInc
      @MoviecraftInc  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you! Cheers!

  • @carltonmcroy3222
    @carltonmcroy3222 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    When America was great.

  • @Broadway789
    @Broadway789 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I was 6 years old and in school on the upper west side. 💗

  • @theeshark7038
    @theeshark7038 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    If only time travel was possible... I was not born until 1968, but would give anything to go back and experience NYC in the 50's and early 60's

    • @luislaplume8261
      @luislaplume8261 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I am old enough to remember when traffic looked like this in my old hometown of NYC. I started kindergarten in September of 1961 in Flushing, Queens, NYC. The streetlights had florescent lights that gave off a white color. And most traffic signals were 2 colored lights, red for stop and green for go. 😊

    • @jackmeeellleee4896
      @jackmeeellleee4896 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I think New York City City was at a peak when this was filmed. A lot of the problems New York and the USA in general had of the later 60s and 70s had not materialized at that point in 1961. An ideal point in time to set your time machine for New York City and before you go pick me up. I want to come along for the trip or at least get a lift back with you.

    • @yvonneplant9434
      @yvonneplant9434 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I hope you aware that you couldn't take anything invented after 1960 with you.

    • @yvonneplant9434
      @yvonneplant9434 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@jackmeeellleee4896I kinda agree with you.

    • @everforward8651
      @everforward8651 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jackmeeellleee4896 Can you fit one more person in your time machine?!

  • @sharksinc.6707
    @sharksinc.6707 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I would date this film 1963 or later based on the shot looking up Park Ave. @4:47. The Pan Am Building, seen behind the Helmsley Building, was completed in 1963.

    • @poitor9217
      @poitor9217 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yes i thought that✅records show the pan-am building was topped out May ‘62 officially opened in ‘63

  • @tomservo56954
    @tomservo56954 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    14:30--15:00...that footage became part of the credits of the television series MAUDE.

    • @kirkmorgan-austin8361
      @kirkmorgan-austin8361 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Hey Yeah ‼️👍 Good catch ‼️

    • @brmnyc
      @brmnyc 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, that scene going over the GWB made me do a double take!

  • @gsm4708
    @gsm4708 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Wonderful memorabilia if you were lucky enough to be around then. Thank you for sharing!

    • @MoviecraftInc
      @MoviecraftInc  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Glad you enjoyed it

  • @rr7firefly
    @rr7firefly 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    If a person is old enough he or she can remember a time before there was visual clutter everywhere, before ugly spray-painted graffiti, before plastic trash everywhere. A time when most people behaved with some level of dignity and courtesy, especially in public.

    • @1940limited
      @1940limited 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I can.

    • @peterquennellnyc
      @peterquennellnyc หลายเดือนก่อน

      It is much better today. Most of the graffiti is long gone, Manhattan is kept pretty clean, and there is a general high level of "I'm pleased to be here" The million tourist a week who come looking for the raw experience this will tell you New Yorkers are much easier to chat with than Parisians on Londoners. And crime is a small percentage of what it was in the 60s and 70s, the era of gang warfare. Central Park was almost universally avoided.

  • @hdholl9696
    @hdholl9696 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I adore the opening jazzy background music that is so typical of the sixties, like in Mannix or Mission Impossible. Puts you in the right mind from the start.

  • @CharlesPress
    @CharlesPress หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Wonderful memories! It was an end of an era - when ladies were smartly dressed , many men still wore hats and nearly everyone smoked cigarettes!

    • @j.g.8494
      @j.g.8494 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ..." when ladies were smartly dressed, many men still wore hats - and nearly everyone SMOKED cigarettes." All true!

    • @Filidor_Kamennyj
      @Filidor_Kamennyj หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      No smoking
      ☝️🤔

  • @argopunk
    @argopunk 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    About seven years before slob culture and drug culture took over. I remember NYC in the 80s and it was a mess. I got assaulted twice in broad daylight just walking over to my dad's office on Park Ave from the Port Authority.
    The Giuliani team led the clean up and that seemed to hold up until about five years ago. Maybe the youngsters of today will get to experience the adventure and thrill of the 70s and 80s again...or maybe they'll just have to step over human feces.

    • @1940limited
      @1940limited 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It's rampant there today.

    • @peterquennellnyc
      @peterquennellnyc หลายเดือนก่อน

      It was not Giuliani it was Bloomberg who cleaned up, put in bike lanes, millions of new trees. Giuliani did next to nothing except try to ban food carts. Ridiculous remark about feces.

  • @user-xr2vl1vq2i
    @user-xr2vl1vq2i หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Commented 6/2024. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Park avenue, Central Park and many of the roads and highways look much the same today as they did 63 years ago with the exception of the peoples dress code, vehicles and smog. Man has done excellent when it comes to clean air, preservation of waterways and conservation. You don’t hear any talk about the Ozone layer depletion and for that I must give credit to man.

  • @Elainerulesutube
    @Elainerulesutube หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    NYC has certainly changed a lot since 1961.

  • @juniorjames7076
    @juniorjames7076 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The majority of those theaters/cinemas (12:52) had become either strip clubs and peep shows or Kung Fu/Black Exploitation film venues by the late 1970s/early 1980s. It fascinating to see footage of the area just before it began to decay into depravity. Don't worry, its all Walt Disney World and Broadway is back again.

  • @pete49327
    @pete49327 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Went to observation deck of Empire State Building as a kid and looking down at street below all the people looked like tiny ants.

  • @lencortigiano1450
    @lencortigiano1450 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    holy crap! Look at the smog. Didn’t get cleared up until the EPA in 1970.

    • @richardanderson5078
      @richardanderson5078 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And Richard Nixon. Right?

    • @NoOne-sn2si
      @NoOne-sn2si หลายเดือนก่อน

      Actually it was more like the 1990s. Same thing happened in Los Angeles. Natural Gas/LPG busses was a huge factor. Catalytic converters also which did start in the 1970s

    • @poitor9217
      @poitor9217 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It was that line of cabs😅

  • @mohammedcohen
    @mohammedcohen หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    ...Pan Am Airlines & Idlewild Airport!!!

  • @WaltGekko
    @WaltGekko 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    I think this is actually 1963. The Pan Am Building was under construction in 1961. It has actually been the Met Life building longer than it was the Pan Am Building.

    • @cameravisionnyc
      @cameravisionnyc 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I also thought that ,and probably Pan Am would put this out closer to the opening of the NY World's fair.

    • @wmbrown6
      @wmbrown6 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'd agree on that basis alone, in terms of the release in this form. Much of the other footage came from '61 though, with the buses and their color scheme (from Fifth Avenue Coach Lines, before their lines were taken over by MaBSTOA) being the main giveaway.

    • @whereisthedollar
      @whereisthedollar 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Sidney Poitier "all the young men" released 1960-08-26 shown on movie marquee.

    • @wmbrown6
      @wmbrown6 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@whereisthedollar - Let's face it, the shots they used, in terms of when originated, were all over the place.

    • @billhosko7723
      @billhosko7723 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@wmbrown6 god grief you kareians.

  • @ericoverton5039
    @ericoverton5039 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I noticed a movie called town without pity in the time square segment that movie came out in 1961.

    • @Sonnycorleone162
      @Sonnycorleone162 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Plus "The Misfits" with Clark Gable & Marilyn Monroe movie sign at 12:47 came out same year.

    • @1940limited
      @1940limited 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      A lot of good movies and actors of the past appeared on those marquis.

  • @tangerinedream7211
    @tangerinedream7211 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    707s benefitted from the Comets problems and ruled the skies .

    • @whereisthedollar
      @whereisthedollar 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Boeing was the best of them back then.

  • @lesleyheller2271
    @lesleyheller2271 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I was ten when this was filmed, growing up in Manhattan. Very nostalgic for me, but it's hard to miss the smog that has been mostly eliminated due to unleaded gasoline and banning of incinerators. I'm still living in Manhattan, happily aging in place in my beloved city.

    • @user-or6yn8pm3c
      @user-or6yn8pm3c หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      No one speaks English there now

    • @user-or6yn8pm3c
      @user-or6yn8pm3c หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      All the wonderful illegal immigrants there today!!!

    • @esmekaffen4961
      @esmekaffen4961 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@user-or6yn8pm3cYes! Just like in days gone by. Land of opportunity and all that.

    • @user-or6yn8pm3c
      @user-or6yn8pm3c หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@esmekaffen4961 The city you see in the film doesn't exist anymore. The location is there today but it's a completely different place. Whatever nostalgia you had much of it is no longer there.

    • @user-or6yn8pm3c
      @user-or6yn8pm3c หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@esmekaffen4961 The ones then integrated. I don't see that today. Keep deluding yourself. Why don't you go out of your Manhattan condo and see the rest of the city???

  • @stevenphillips3466
    @stevenphillips3466 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I love the Cars ...but I remember cars before catalytic converters , Smelly and Noxious gasses when you were behind a untuned V - 8 . Carbon Monoxide was a big problem then.

    • @vincentl.9469
      @vincentl.9469 หลายเดือนก่อน

      American cars of the 50s & 60s were ridiculous . the amount of raw materials used in their making and the size of them ...often carrying no more than 2 people going shopping..but then petrol was very cheap-too cheap

  • @neurogence
    @neurogence หลายเดือนก่อน

    Oh mines loved it just watched it on a projector 📽️

  • @robertabrams8562
    @robertabrams8562 หลายเดือนก่อน

    No one is more proud of being a New Yorker than I am 🗽

  • @MrSloika
    @MrSloika หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Seeing the Jersey side of the GWB is interesting. In this film it looks rural, today it's all covered with skyscrapers.

    • @clarklk
      @clarklk หลายเดือนก่อน

      GWB?

    • @MrSloika
      @MrSloika หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@clarklk George Washington Bridge.

  • @bernardescolier9526
    @bernardescolier9526 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    At 12', many great 59/1960 movies titles on cinemas lights ! West Side Story, The Misfits, The Truth... and others.

    • @peterquennellnyc
      @peterquennellnyc หลายเดือนก่อน

      Haha! True. Those theaters all became porn theaters, then were torn down and replaced by one big building along most of each side of that block, made to look like many cafes and theaters.

  • @timburr4453
    @timburr4453 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thank you for sharing. The NY I long for
    Staten Island Ferry going by at 10:30
    I dont think the GW had a lower level yet

    • @MoviecraftInc
      @MoviecraftInc  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for watching

  • @nelbcn2244
    @nelbcn2244 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was born in 1962.So neeed to wait some more years to know about this nice city.I am from Spain

  • @Kevin-yh9yt
    @Kevin-yh9yt หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    While many comments say how clean everything looks, people forget how polluted the air was back then. I rmember as a kid being told it was like smoking 2 packs a day just breathing in NYC.

  • @rknine7998
    @rknine7998 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    At 10:04, the neighborhood I was born in grew up and is currently living!

  • @garrywood5345
    @garrywood5345 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just been, February '24...fascinating place

  • @suzyf5733
    @suzyf5733 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    NY used to be wonderful indeed!........Sadly not any more..enough said😢..

  • @theprogressiveatheist7024
    @theprogressiveatheist7024 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    More time has passed between the time this was filmed and today than between the 1800s and the time this was filmed.

  • @chrisgay9623
    @chrisgay9623 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Sounds like Robin McNeil narrating.

  • @chrisjeffries2322
    @chrisjeffries2322 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    💋

  • @DrewTillman-tr4ex
    @DrewTillman-tr4ex หลายเดือนก่อน

    Born in Brooklyn in 1949 and graduated in 1967 from Stuyvesant and in 1970 from Brooklyn college. Was out of town from 1971 to 1975 when I returned to NYC. Still have the apartment in coney Island which mom,dad and I moved in to at Christmas 1965. Coney island was still glorious until the early 1960's until decline started with steeplechase closing in 1963. Beach and board are still great for bathing and walking.The Russian population has invigorated the eastern part of the boardwalk with some decent restaurants.

  • @cubbie8330
    @cubbie8330 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    How did such a grand city of the world become such a cesspool today?

    • @user-zx8xi1gg3q
      @user-zx8xi1gg3q หลายเดือนก่อน

      Out of control spending
      And sending the wrong
      People to congress for
      Starters..irs blackmailing the American people every
      Freaking year didn't help
      Either..also military spending went completely bonkers...
      Now homelessness
      and joblessness is tearing the country
      Apart...vote Trump
      Or were toast.

    • @joedimaggio3687
      @joedimaggio3687 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​​@NoPrivateProperty the progressive democratic party.

    • @peterquennellnyc
      @peterquennellnyc หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You're confused. The city looks amazing and is very safe and attracts 1 million tourists a week. Shopping is the best. Broadway sells 40,000 seats every night.

    • @richardanderson5078
      @richardanderson5078 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Democrats

    • @peterquennellnyc
      @peterquennellnyc หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@richardanderson5078 Ooooh, spoooky, do hold mommy's hand.... In fact Democrats grow the economy faster at every level. Hundreds of billions annually are transferred from Blue states to Red.

  • @JulieAnderocci
    @JulieAnderocci หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Look at those clean streets😅😅😅😅

  • @Noway673
    @Noway673 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    No world trade center in 1961.The construction of the WTC started in 1966 and was finished in April 1973. My dad was 25 and my mom was 19 in 1966.I didn't exist yet.

    • @kevinsullivan136
      @kevinsullivan136 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I was in catholic elementary school 1965-73 in Jersey City, NJ. I could see them building WTC from some of my classrooms on a sunny spring or fall day. Little did I know I would work on 77th FL in WTC 1 late 80's into early 90's for a Japanese insurance company. Yasuda Fire & Marine. It was pretty surreal to look across the Hudson to J.C. when working there

    • @poitor9217
      @poitor9217 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      What’s that’s got to do with the price of fish in New Jersey😩

  • @Badger345
    @Badger345 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Interesting…the traffic is moving

  • @mikedziadik2313
    @mikedziadik2313 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Lived not far from NYC in this era. There was a clear car (and plane) centric narrative they were pushing to the point where they said people arrive by car, bus, taxi and totally left out Grand Central Terminal and Penn Station train stations and the subways. They focused on roads and bridges.
    Also totally left out the theater district.

  • @francocostantini2617
    @francocostantini2617 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Quando il mondo sembrava perfetto....

  • @fromthesidelines
    @fromthesidelines 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Pan Am went out of business 30 years ago- so don't expect to "call Pan American" to book a flight on any of *their* planes.

    • @tomservo56954
      @tomservo56954 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Or look up over Grand Central Station and see something other than MET LIFE

  • @JulieAnderocci
    @JulieAnderocci หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thewind of change😢😢😢😢😢😢

  • @heribertolopezescalante1166
    @heribertolopezescalante1166 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Que limpia, serena, agradable y acogedora se ve la ciudad. Un entorno lindo para vivir. Pero eso se scabó, ya no existe y eso da mucha pena.

  • @jeffzoots265
    @jeffzoots265 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Family emigrated there 1896. Born there 1960. Raised and educated there. Loved the city. What the left wing socialists and communists have done to that city is a disgrace. Compared to other great cities, especially those in Asia like Hong Kong, NY is nothing but a pathetic shell of what it used to be.