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This one-reel short, from the Movietone newsreel division of 20th Century-Fox, delivers exactly what the title promises - the music of Manhattan. There are no actors, no dialogue and, unheard of for a short in this genre, there is no narration. It opens with and closes with the musical sounds of New York as a way of pointing out the melting-pot characteristics found there as the camera goes on an intriguing sight-sound tour of the city, with the sound track providing its own narration from…the hurdy-gurdy man in the Italian section to the bells of St. Patrick’s Cathedral ringing to a street carousel; a fiddler playing for pennies outside Carnegie Hall fading into a concert pianist on the stage inside to the doves in Herald Square to a jive joint in Harlem. |
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| Ratings: | IMDB: 0.0/10 | |
| Released: | July 4, 1950 | |
| Runtime: | 10 min | |
| Genres: | Music Short | |
| Crew: | Vyvyan Donner | |
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