Manhatta
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| released = [[1921 in film|1921]]
| runtime = 10 mins
| country = {{USA}}
| language = [[English language|English]]
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| amg_id = 1:31284
| imdb_id = 0131468
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'''''Manhatta''''' ([[1921 in film|1921]]) is a short [[documentary film]] which revels in the haze rising from city smoke stacks. With the city as subject, it consists of 65 shots sequenced in a loose narrative, beginning with a ferry approaching Manhattan and ending with a sunset view from a sky scraper. The primary objective of the film is to explore the relationship between photography and film; camera movement is kept to a minimum, as is incidental motion within each shot. Each frame provides a view of the city that has been carefully arranged into abstract compositions.
It was an attempt to show the film makers' love for the city of [[New York, New York|New York]]. ''Manhatta'' was a collaboration between painter [[Charles Sheeler]] and photographer [[Paul Strand]]. The interspersed title cards include excerpts from [[Walt Whitman]]. The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the [[Library of Congress]], selected for preservation in the United States [[National Film Registry]], and was restored for the DVD set ''[[Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant Garde Film 1894-1941|Unseen Cinema]]'' in October 2005.
==External links==
*[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0131468/ ''Manhatta'' at IMDB]
*[http://unseen-cinema.com/ ''Unseen Cinema'' website]
[[Category:1922 films]]
[[Category:Documentaries about cities]]
[[Category:United States National Film Registry films]]
[[Category:Black and white films]]
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