Panorama from the tower of Brooklyn Bridge /

The view was taken from the tower on the Brooklyn side of the bridge. As the film begins, the camera is looking southwest, towards the southern tip of Manhattan (the Battery). The camera pans very rapidly north following Manhattan's East River shoreline, across the bridge span itself and the bridge's New York side tower, following the shoreline further north towards Corlear's Hook, where the film ends. Some visible landmarks include the Fulton Fish Market buildings at Fulton and South Streets [Frame: 0420] (currently the site of the South Street Seaport Museum); north of the bridge tower is the Catherine Slip, where a Catherine Street Ferry is docked [0568].Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 12Sept1903; H35636.Camera, [G.W. "Billy" Bitzer?]Duration: 0:35 at 10 fps.Some sources used date of filming (1899) as release date; some sources use copyright date (1903) as release date.Possible cameraman credit from Early motion pictures. Not found in any other secondary sources.Photographed on April 18, 1899 in Brooklyn, New York.Biograph production no. 388.Paper print shelf number (LC 0352) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed. DLCAdditional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian. DLCSources used: Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 237; Biograph photo catalog, v. 1 (no. 388), viewed online via the New Jersey Digital Highway, November 23, 2015; Biograph production records (production log), v. 1: 1899-1903; AFI catalog online, viewed November 23, 2015; Internet movie database WWW site, viewed November 23, 2015.Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985