ELLIS ISLAND AND NEW YORK BAY Part 3

Description

Signal Corps DC 238 ADC 7238 SOURCE: AFCF (PROJECT 13,420) FILM: ARCH & APC MP 970' ea Silent RG 111 ELLIS ISLAND Accession III-NAV-210 AND NEW YORK BAY 1948 LS, from boat; buildings on lower Manhattan. Follow, schooner, with sails furled passing at Battery. Shot from ferry; coming into slip on the New York side. HS, deckhands tying up ferry to pier. HS, RA, people walking off ferry towards building on pier. Skyscrapers, lower Manhattan, photographed from ferry. Shots of ships at piers, skyscrapers in bg. MS, outside of pilothouse; pilot at wheel. The Detention building photographed from ferry. Shot from ferry approaching ferry slip on Ellis Island. Coming into slip; pan up to top of building. HS, deckhand tying up boat at slip. HS, RA, people going ashore. HS, from stern of ferry as it leaves the slip on the Ellis Island side. Hospital building photographed from ferry moving out of slip. LS, against the light: Statue of Liberty. (short) (ng) ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE, LIC 1, NY ERBS/mle

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities