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[Schneider Fred]

I set these up for some other people ... then I started looking for  
more and just didn't know when to quit looking ... thought you also  
might like them.   (Additional addresses suppressed.   Frank Pfuhler  
and Wayne Koch .... you are both receiving blind carbons.)
The first two links are to Harold Lloyd commedies.  Lloyd was his own  
stunt man.  He didn't use a double.

The first one has a lot of Manhattan scenes but it actually ends with  
him driving a bus in Los Angeles.   The elevated railway scene is 6th  
Avenue at Herald Square (34th Street).   The el disappeared just  
before World War II.   Some of the antique car types will recognize  
the Pierce Arrow automobile ... the one with the lights built into  
the fenders which was unusual for the period.   In time period the  
three most luxurious cars in the United States were the three  
"Ps" ... the Packard, the Peerless, the Pierce Arrow.   You will also  
see an old New York horse car but in a mad dash but it isn't on the  
tracks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkqz3lpUBp0&feature=related

The next link shows Lloyd as a human fly climbing up the side of a  
building above Broadway in Los Angeles, circa 1923.    This includes,  
near the end of the 10 minute film, the famous image of Harold  
hanging over Broadway from the hands of the clock.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEcTjhUN_7U&feature=related

There are some fantastic other Harold Lloyd comic shorts to the right  
of these ... worth looking at too.

This next one is a Pacific Electric training film from 1914 but right  
at the beginning it includes the famous Keystone Cops trick fliver  
diving into the devil strip between two Los Angeles Railway standard  
cars.    It was apparently copied allowing the sound from the  
projector gears to be picked up ... turn the damn sound off.    
Correction ... I found a separate version.  The first link only has  
the trick automobile and the training film.   The second one has  
better sound but only the training PE training film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a08Ol9EQUAU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCTyMo8vak4

By the way, the Keystone Cops were noted for chasing the crooks and  
never getting them.   If you type You Tube Keystone Cops into your  
search engine ... particularly into Google, you will get some  
fastastic stuff ... not just the 1920s films but more recent examples  
of cops chasing their quarry and never getting them.   There is a  
great example (real or staged, I don't know which), filmed in the  
desert southwest, that is alleged to be a group of immigration  
officers trying to get Mexicans ... no matter which side of the car  
they approach ... the aliens come out the other side of the car and  
run off into the desert.   Oh well ... to save you hunting for it ...  
here's the link to the Keystone Cops on border patrol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLsgKSGR32c&feature=related

The following are Old New York Films

Color slides mostly from 1940 but a short movie of IRT elevated train.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed0Chh7KADA&feature=related

The 1939 World's Fair.   Great color picture of a Third Avenue  
Railway car at Broadway and 42nd Street.   And some B&QT cars on the  
Flushing - Ridgwood line at the Fair.   There are also some nice  
vintage subway stock including multi-section BMT cars.   The B&O  
diesels cannot be on the CNJ mainline coming into Jersey City because  
that was four-tracks.   The purple Atlantic Coast Line diesels have  
no relationship at all to the Fair ... they had to be taken somewhere  
south of Washington DC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8XQgHhKNHg&feature=related

This shows the original 1904 IRT subway in 1905.   I think this film  
is in the public domain in the Library of Congress.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjKL8_er34s&feature=channel

How about trolleys on the Metropolitan's 23rd Street Crosstown line  
in 1923?   Can you imagine how many tons of Pferdemist had to be  
scraped off the streets of New York every year?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8PVEkeRJQ0&feature=related

Very short but we see the construction of the George Washington  
Bridge and the Empire State Building

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m619x9Bqm1Q&feature=related

This is titled New York 1927 but it actually spans a period from  
before World War I until World War II.   At 2 minutes 12 seconds, we  
see an aerial view of the island with the George Washington Bridge in  
the distance which opened in 1931 (ground breaking was in 1927)  The  
photo at 3:25 was taken in the 1940s.  Old Grand Central Station (4  
minutes 3 seconds) was gradually replaced by new Grand Central  
Terminal between 1903 and 1913.   The electrification was finished  
about 1912.   The terminal tracks were electrified by 1906 so this  
might well be the oldest picture in a series claimed to be 1927.    
The scene at 4:43 is late 1930s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52lBC15YHCY&feature=related

And this claims to be the Brooklyn Bridge but it isn't.   It is the  
Manhattan Bridge.   You are looking at the cars of the Manhattan  
Bridge 3 Cent Line.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y_jnseuNZU&feature=related

And there are some other neat old New York film strips.   Enjoy.