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  1. Megacities (2011)

    Director
    Michael Glawogger
    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £14.99

    This documentary explores the resourcefulness and imagination of people living in some of the world’s most overpopulated cities: Bombay, New York, Moscow and Mexico City.The film is a tale in twelve...

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  2. Paul Auster: Confidential

    Director
    Guy Seligmann; Gérard de Cortanze
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 149 minutes), £17.99

    ARTE meets novelist Paul Auster at his home in New York, where he speaks about his childhood, baseball, his travels, the influence of the city on his work and the importance that walking holds for him. He...

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  3. Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu (1980 Film)

    Director
    David Loeb Weiss
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Records the last night on which the ‘New York Times’ was printed using ‘hot type’ cast from molten lead. Linotype setting, page make-up, stereotype matting, curved metal-plate casting and the final...

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  4. Skyscraper (4 Parts) (1989 Video)

    Producer
    Karl Sabbagh
    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 4 x 52 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) INCA (compilation video?)

    A record of the building of a 47-storey, 7OO-foot tall skyscraper, Worldwide Plaza, in New York City, showing the evolution of the project from the initial design through all it construction stages to its...

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  5. Painters Painting: The New York Art Scene, 1940-70 (1972)

    Director
    Emile de Antonio
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 116 minutes), £19.99

    Emile de Antonio was a close friend of many New York painters long before abstract expressionism, action painting and pop art became well known and filmed the painters informally in their studios. Shows...

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  6. Paris is Burning (1990)

    Director
    Jennie Livingston
    Subject
    Design; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 73 minutes), £15.99

    The 1990 film, directed by Jennie Livingston, catalogues the world of "balls", the huge events that see scores of New York drag queens parading up and down runways in lavish and flamboyant (and more often...

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  7. Dark Days (2014)

    Director
    Marc Singer
    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £9.99

    Marc Singer’s documentary depicts the lives of a community of homeless people living in an abandoned tunnel in the New York subway. This edition features a large number of extras, including a director’s...

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  8. Public Murals in New York (1993 Video)

    Producer
    G D Jayalakshmi
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    At the height of the Great Depression in the USA, President Franklin D Roosevelt promised the people a New Deal. The Works Project Administration (WPA) employed artists within the Federal Art Project, part...

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  9. Mao: Organised Chaos (1978)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 45 minutes), $7.49

    Both Episodes Of The 1978 Portraits Of Power television series produced by the New York Times on the life and history of Mao Tse Tung. Concentrates on Mao after he became the effective ruler of China in...

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  10. 1964 New York World’s Trade Fair, The (2006)

    Subject
    Design; History; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 87 minutes), $9.99

    A compilation of seven short films on exhibits at the 1964 New York World’s Trade Fair - the last to be held on American soil.

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