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New York, 1865-1898 Sunshine and Shadow
Title
New York, 1865-1898 [electronic resource (video)] : Sunshine and Shadow / Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.).
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2011], c2003.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (120 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on August 21, 2011.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
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Summary
In this episode of New York: A Documentary Film, Ric Burns turns to the period when greed and wealth fueled an expanding metropolis, even as politics and poverty defined it. Now the spotlight shines on the growth, glamour, and grief of New York during America's giddy postwar "Gilded Age." Exploring the incomparable wealth of the robber barons and the unabashed corruption of political leaders, such as Tammany Hall boss William M. Tweed, the episode examines the era when the expansion of wealth and poverty - and the schism between them - built to a crescendo. The program ends as the city itself dramatically expands its boundaries, annexing Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island into a single massive metropolis - Greater New York.
Variant and related titles
Sunshine and Shadow
Films on demand.
New York (Television program)
Other formats
Originally produced: Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), 2003.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
Series
New York: A Documentary Film by Ric Burns
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
9 and up.
Contents
Microcosm of the Contrasts of Modern Life (2:11)
Angel of the Water (2:19)
Democratic Meeting Place (2:19)
Expansion and Division (1:23)
Wealth and Poverty (2:22)
Great City (1:56)
Large Scale Capitalism (1:43)
Speculation and Excesses (1:23)
Growth and Intellectuals (3:24)
Change (0:23)
Need for Brooklyn Bridge (1:23)
Rowland's Vision (2:15)
Corruption (1:51)
Tweed and Tammany Hall (2:51)
Workings of the Machine (1:45)
Courthouse (1:57)
Anti-Tweed Cartoons (2:18)
Tweed Jailed (2:37)
Alfred Smith Born (3:16)
Seeds of Cosmopolitanism (2:06)
Financial Crisis (2:26)
Depression (1:44)
Statue of Liberty (0:52)
Problems for Brooklyn Bridge (2:34)
Morgan's Mission (2:46)
Morgan's Methods (1:08)
Edison's Power Plant (1:54)
Scale and Meaning of Brooklyn Bridge (4:18)
Grand Opening (1:27)
Brooklyn Bridge Boardwalk (2:19)
Fireworks (0:40)
Obstacles and Achievement (2:04)
Stampede (1:32)
Al Smith, Teenage Breadwinner (2:29)
Millionaire Magnet (3:14)
Statue of Liberty, and Henry George's Campaign (2:42)
Sidewalks of New York (2:54)
End of an Era (1:34)
How the Other Half Lives (1:51)
Photographs (2:27)
Tenements (1:55)
Death and Disease (1:40)
Causes of Poverty (1:24)
Changing Ideas (1:31)
Whitman's Work and Death (2:06)
Success and Desire for More (1:41)
Cultural Institutions Spring Up (2:39)
Annexing Brooklyn (2:16)
Brooklyn's Views on Annexation (1:44)
Size of Consolidated New York (1:34)
New Immigrant Waves (2:00)
Additional Resources & Credits: New York, 1865-1898: Sunshine and Shadow (3:50)
Videorecording number
44169s Infobase
44172 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
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