“ SKYSCRAPER ” CONSTRUCTION OF 666 5TH AVE. NEW YORK CITY 1959 DOCUMENTARY MD40784
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This 1959 sponsored documentary directed by Shirley Clarke uses experimental montage techniques to dramatize the construction of the 666 Fifth Avenue Skyscraper in Manhattan, New York City (TRT: 21:11). Clarke was a member of the Independent Filmmakers of America and was part of a circle of independent filmmakers in Greenwich Village such as Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas, and Lionel Rogosin.
Opening titles: “Brandon Films Presents.” The Bellringers Monument in Herald Square (0:09). Musical montage: Towering skyscrapers of steel and glass reflect passing clouds (0:25). Air conditioning units. Wrought iron fire escapes and ornate filigree (0:55). A horse-drawn carriage. A brick wall is demolished. A sign: “Dig we must - for growing New York.” Scenes of construction and buildings marked for demolition (1:06). Signs on buildings for sale and lease. Title “Skyscraper” and opening credits as wheatpaste boards (1:39). POV a man in silhouette operating a rotating excavator. A foreman and a construction crew. Aluminum workers “in Louisville” (2:13). Women metalworkers building windows. Men smoking (2:54). Men in suits in office environments. An architect reviews a proposal with a client (3:12). A modelmaker sculpts foam blocks. Draftsmen work with guides at drafting tables. Rolls of blueprints on a shelf (3:38). Closeup on office furniture. A hand reaches in and grabs a chair, revealing the scale of the miniature mockup. More hands sample textured tiles. Surveyors photographs (4:00). An excavation site. A sign: “666” and a steam shovel scooping chunks of stone and concrete into a truck: “Manhattan Water Works” (4:20). Dynamiting using wires and a blasting machine. Curious onlookers. A truck: “Palazzolo Bros.” drives past parking lots and into a tunnel for New Jersey (5:31). Workers toil, a foreman shrugs. Pouring concrete. Walls taking shape (6:32). A bird in flight against the Brooklyn Bridge. Steamships at harbor. Steel beams are loaded onto a “Bigley Bros.” trailer truck, which passes the Roxy Theatre (7:04). Steel beams hoisted upright. Men in hardhats shouting, smoking (7:55). A worker bolts a girder into place (8:25). A Santa Claus for Volunteers of America. 5th Ave. below (8:37). Workers stand on a platform, 30 stories in the air. A man sits atop a beam. The Chrysler Building (9:15). Dizzying shots of bolts being applied, tiny human shapes below (10:05). St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Floors stack up. A temporary elevator pours concrete (11:03). Workers in silhouette (12:00). Aluminum panels for exterior walls and windows are added (12:31). A bricklayer at work. Another worker reclines at rest, balancing across a girder while smoking (13:29). St. Patrick’s reappears. A top-down view of passing traffic. Lunch break: Bananas and cherry soda (14:01). Street-level onlookers watch an air-conditioner installation (14:21). Looking up an elevator shaft as the lift shoots boxes of furniture furniture skyward. Floorplans. Welding A/C ducts. Installing ceiling panels (15:16). A mason smooths mortar with a trowel. Montage: Plaster, paint, tile, electrical wiring, steam valves, A/C fans, elevator buttons, switchboards, a hoist, an elevator shaft (16:18). Reporters with film cameras and a marching band. Stouffer’s Restaurant and Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. (17:29). The film jump-cuts to color on the United States flag. The completed skyscraper. Office furnishings appear in stop-motion (18:03). A checker special taxi cab of the “Ramtol Service Corp.” A crowded elevator. A switchboard operator’s hands. Pouring coffee. Telephones. Bustling urban crowds. Sunsets and night skylines (18:54). End titles: “Produced with the technical facilities of the Tishman Realty and Construction Co., Inc.” (20:53). “Termini Film Editorial Service, Inc.” (21:04).
The film was produced by Joseph Burstyn Film Enterprises Inc. and was co-sponsored by Reynolds Metals, Bethlehem Steel, Westinghouse Elevator Co., and York Air Conditioning.
Clarke received limited directorial assistance from Willard Van Dyke (The City) and Irving Jacoby, while Wheaton Galentine and D.A. Pennebaker (Don’t Look Back, Monterey Pop) are also credited. The film was nominated for a 1959 Academy Award in the Best Short Live Action category, and won at the Venice Film Festival. The soundtrack was provided by legendary jazz music producer Teo Macer. The vocals were sung by Gene Mumford of The Larks. The 41-story office building was designed by Carson & Lundin. It is currently leased by Brookfield Properties.
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The logistics of planning and making a skyscraper in the '50s is mindblowing. I literally can't comprehend it.
I know! Its mind boggling. I watched a documentary on the building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Ken Burns, maybe?) and the fact that it was constructed in the late 1800s, before motor vehicles, and its still in use as a major interstate bridge just blows my mind.
I think he was being sarcsstic
That introduction, first two minutes or so, including the song, was very revealing about the intention of these skyscrapers, and these projects in general. Taking out the last remnants of the “Old” world New York... replacing them with more profitable, less attractive buildings, while making sure to drum up public support for said new construction.
The images and video are very interesting, thank you
Excellent comment. I caught that too. Building the new age "one world". Pay attention to these details people. The old system (national/structural/financial) is being dismantled and will collapse soon in order to make way for the new. Scary stuff but very real if one pays attention.
As a native New Yorker born in ‘46 (Greenwich Village) many thanks for this great look back in time at different men, no OSHA, incredible skill, fearless walking many stories high with no nets; just balance...
Some great free verse and jazz. Definitely a piece out of the 50’s.
Next door to Saint Pat’s and across from MOMA. 666 Fifth.
Worked at Morgan Stanley after I got out of the Army; couple of great dinners at the Top of the Sixes.
Now Trumps son in law owns 666 5th Avenue, I remember the lights they put up at Christmas time.
Its really a great time for America when we could and so anything
@@campervanelvisitoofonyou8720 666 might just be a significant number?
@@rainbowranddyAnytime you count from 1 to 1,000 you're going to encounter it.
The Mob bosses took a piece of every part of the action. The 666 address was a nod to the financier of this project...
Still ongoing. No wonder 1 World Trade cost more than the Manhattan Project
The real grift came when Kushner Properties bought 666 5th Avenue in 2007. Jared Kushner leveraged his position in the White House to extract money from Saudi Arabia. We'll never know the half of it.
who was the "financier"?
And an omen of where the Antichrist will come from.
@@rainbowranddy what does 666 mean?
Should have stopped tearing down the city in 1930s
It would have been a jewel
What an architectural mess it is now
All curtain wall crap construction now.
Love seeing the shovels loading those LJSW Macks. 🤘🏻🇺🇸
It appears a lot more concrete was used in that building as well as masonry around stair wells and elevator shafts. Drywall and spray on fire proofing is quick and less labor intensive and cheaper nowadays . Things have changed with sobering trade offs . Great account. Thanks for posting.
I couldn't work that high up, i fell off my chair twice just watching.
Those were *REAL Union* wise guys.
Possibly one of the coolest short films I've seen on TH-cam, between DA Pennebaker's and Teo Macero's contributions. Wow.
And today, just a few blocks away, they dismantled the Union Carbide building, built from the same era
There were a lot of fun songs in this one!
It is by only the grace of God I was able to find a short video of my Fathers Construction company during this time in 1959 the very year I was born. My Father Louis Pegno Sr. and Grand Pa Angelo started in 1935 with a model T ford and a pick and shovel. My Father was L&J Contracting Corp. My Father at the time was the only company aloud to handle TNT. in New York City for over 20 years in the 50s and 60s. early 70s, The Blasting permit was issued to a chosen few by only the NYC Fire commissioner, From there came the power carry license was issued to a competent trained by my dad worker. If you notice the line drilling and the Blasting Matts and line drillers and air compressors marked L&J CONCRETE CORP. The old front end bucket was his also powered by cables not hydraulic. notice the phone number RA8-0500 on the air compressor .My great Father Louis and L&J concrete did many many foundations in NYC, Fred Trump was a buddy of his and gave him many blasting jobs in Queens along Queens blvd. The U.N. Building 1947.as well and The World Trade Center foundation,1964 Wolds Fair, The Globe Foundation .and demo of the Fair later on., blasting and excavation,, many more He Blasted Bear mountain and cut the road way for many miles there . In the Bronx the cut away entrance road when entering the bridge , you can see the line drilling along the walls going in and under the apartments and so many more.. He blasted and line drilled half the bed rock in NYC. In the video he the Handsome fella removing and replacing his baseball cap. I am very proud of my Fathers blood sweat and tears he left behind. I will Honor him and his memory and thank him for the Man He Built... Thank You POP.. I can still hear that 3 min. warning .I think of you everyday...
Queens Blvd. was the most interesting Broadway in that time.My late father drove thru there with his family when the center lanes still had red bricks on the pavement.
Two years later - after you left your comment, pretty cool that someone comes along and gets really excited for you! How cool! I too come from a construction family many years back and would also be thrilled to see a photo or film with a bit of my dad in there with his hard hat (pre OSHA) the hat was for status only and his linen blueprints! 👍
Proud Ironworker here! Love watching my forebears fearlessly filling sky, performing feats that that are far beyond anything I am capable of!
Just don't look down...and keep smoking.
hey, even dem dames are woyking on dat building.
"Dames?" Gotta love the utter lack of PC.
They had no time for PC. They were actually hard working Americans that actually built this country. No time for body dysmorphia or constant dwelling of their own egos. They built the city's up so we would have no problems now we make up problems
The 666 wasnt wasted on me....👍
18 months. I bet a project can’t even get permits that quick now.
In 1613, the Dutch trader and explorer Adriaen Block and his crew became the first Europeans to live on Manhatten Island.
However, the first white man known to have visited Manhatten Island was an Italian, Giovanni Verrazano, who, sailing in the French service, entered the harbor in 1524.
In September, 1609, Henry Hudson, in the service of the East India Company, explored the harbor and river, and soon after the Dutch began trading with the Indians.
In 1624 the Dutch West Company sent the first settlers to manhatten. By 1626 the settlers had laid out a town and built a fort.
The settlement's governor Peter Minuit, had bought Manhatten Island from the Indians for the equivalent of twenty-four dollars and christened the town New Amsterdam.
Van Twiller, William Kieft and Peter Stuyvesant were Peter Minuit's successors.
The town prospered in 1653 it numbered about 800 souls. In that year it was incorporated into a city.
In 1664 Charles II King of England granted the New Netherlands to his brother the Duke of York, who took possession of city and renamed it New York
Really enjoyed watching the older construction methods! All pre-OSHA and incredibly dangerous work.
Very interesting film!! Loved it!!
Then after it's built you have a staff to maintain it. I don't mean the just mopping the floors and keeping the lights changed. I'm talking taking care of all the HVAC/R, electrical, elevators, plumbing, painting..... Everything. Most repair work is usually all done inhouse except for major renovations or a renter's special needs when they would use an outside contractor.
Speaking renovations, I wonder how many have been done there since 1959. HVAC equipment doesn't last forever. I'm certain the electrical system has been expanded years ago to keep up with all the electronic devices we all use. Likely several times. I didn't notice a sprinkler system but I bet it has one now. There's way more to a large commercial building than most people imagine.
*Magic city INTENSIFIES*
This makes me think of my Pop & Grand Pop.
Corn pop 🌽
Asa former New Yorker I prefer the old architecture.
On that site originally was the fabulous W.K. Vanderbilt mansion designed by Richard Morris Hunt!
666? Sure! Thanks Periscope.
The building is at 666 5th Avenue which is now Zara clothing store, and it’s still standing. The address is cryptical, because of the number of the Devil.
@@Musicradio77Network Thanks and it sure is cryptical!
Guess who owns it.
Kushner Properties.
Sadly they're gonna change the address to avoid offending social justice weirdos.
Pathetic
@@visionist7 Social justice weirdos aren't bothered by idiotic references to imaginary powers. That's the job of right-wing greed-driven superstitious assholes.
Not to detract from the dangerous work those guys did, but I'll bet that even with the various "other groups of interest" getting their share, those probably cost less to build than a parking lot 62 years later.
We hired some steelworkers as stage riggers to help one time during a busy season. When they found out they'd have to hang underneath the beams in harnesses, they quit. Lightweights.
I wonder what the actual reason for quitting was
@@tjlovesrachel Turns out they were ornamental ironworkers, lol.
@@jimmartin7881 lmaoooo that’s what I was thinking
Cool! I particularly enjoyed the soundtrack! (proto rap/hip hop)
NYC skyscrapers during the "madman" era.
Mid Century modern. What a time!
This office building is where Zara clothing store is now. That has nothing to do with Erika & Zara Dawson (aka Dawson Gals).
And now they're replacing those unique aluminum panels with MORE glass, like there aren't enough all-glass skyscrapers...
Found on Google maps looks the same and the church is still there
Facinating...lots of mafia influence there thats for sure😨😅
In NYC, you can bet on it.
@@campervanelvisitoofonyou8720 It doesn't take a wise guy.
A bland, ugly building. It used to have 666 in red on all sides of the building.
I wonder if the surrounding air rights were to be purchased, if Jarrod K tore it down, and build a taller one?
This is Jared's digs now.
My friends father was an Ironworker. He told us about a co-worker who lost his balance and fell 30 stories! He said the guy did a swan-dive. And you think your job is tough?
Wunna dem guys sounds like a cross between Leslie Nielsen and Telly Savalas.
They're very proud of that address. Google
How ironic. the very beginning of the film states it's a "brandon" production. The current owner of the building is Jared Kushner, the son in law of Donald Trump.
That is weird. Since its orange mans son in laws property...and thats his arch enemy bidens nickname "brandon". What the hell?
Is this the same 666th building that Trumps son in law bought just because it was 666?
This channel is fantastic, either through intent, or cosmic synchronicity: they always seem to release old footage of conspiracy related topic
It was Kushner. I know the brokers that completed the transaction. Al sharpton was there everyday smoking cigars
The number of The Beast!
@@flightforensics4523 voted for Trump twice, not a big fan of jarrod though, also I didn’t say anything negative, just wondering if this was the same building they made a big deal out of on the news. I think you’re doing what they call “projecting” lol.
Yes it's the one and the same building
They didnt have the excavators like you see today.....Looked like Robert Moses at the 6:36 mark
That is Robert Moses! We learned about him in NYC city history textbooks in my NYC elementary school.
Dames? Sure you bet we got dames.
In the 1960s when Iwas a boy the men still called attractive women dames.I grew up in NYC.
There is nothing you can name that is anything like a dame!
"Mebbe you could loin sompthin'."
Really 😎
Jared Kushner’s family owns that building today.
They just rebuilt 666 5th recently
This blg. is a pain in my butt, Jared K.
Haha No one else Got IT
666 5th Avenue?
Did they sacrifice a goat to the Lord of the Flies before they poured the first yard of concrete?
But why 666 🤯
Because that's the physical address and before the Satanic Panic of the 70s and 80s people didn't used to be so superstitious about such things.
@@wilsoncalhoun thanks!
We, as a People, are strange...
And i don't understand that we are "producing" this crazy, seek... Things... And we don't have any backbones. Group of manipulators is changing our imagination, our world, our feelings, and we don't have a power to fight with this desinformations.
Once again thank You.
Sorry for my english.
@@wilsoncalhoun Actually, the address is being officially changed to 660 5th Ave. in 2021, lol.
Sounds like Walter Matthau doing one of the workers' voices. None of these songs made the Hit Parade.
And the song itself sounds like it was sung by Mel Torme.
Mad Men!
The building at 666 😮
What madness. Needlessly destroying human-scale gems of workmanship, materials, taste, and history for low-quality, monolithic, and brutal barrenness. So incredibly *wasteful* . And then using the destroyed old gems to "fill in the [New Jersey] marshes." Could we be any more blind?
um and da pennebaker 🤯
Kushner owns it now right?
James, they did. They sold out to the Chinese last year.
Ivanka Trump's husband, Jared Kushner's building.
The devil made them do it
And now it's all a memory thanks Andrew Cuomo da boso there tarring it down as we speak
It's not easy to present such a compelling subject in such an annoying way.
NYC would be better off if they saved building, like the Hoover building, that mid-century shit is an eye sore
Satanic
Moron.
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
is this building owned by trumps son in law right now?
Cool documentary with some terribly written songs! 🤣
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