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New York Calling (1942)

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New York Calling (1942)
 Sponsor/Production Co.: New York Central Railroad. Producer: Frederick G. Beach. Writer: Gordon Auchincloss. Narrator: Vincent Connelly. Transfer Note: Scanned from a 16mm print held by the Library of Congress. Running Time: 21 minutes.

Travelogue sponsored by a railroad company serving New York City. Approaching the metropolis by rail, the film covers major tourist destinations such as Coney Island, Times Square, celebrated nightclubs, and Rockefeller Center, where NBC provides an experimental television demonstration.

Note: Produced in Technicolor. Also released in 16mm. Revised in 1948.

Resources
“New York Calling: Road’s Color Film,” Christian Science Monitor, Mar. 7, 1942, 3; “New Films of the Month,” Educational Screen 21 (May 1942): 195; Educational Film Catalog, comps. Dorothy E. Cook and Eva Rahbek-Smith (New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1943), 347; Frederick G. Beach, “Films Serve the New York Central,” Business Screen 7, no. 5 (1946): 25.