In 1899, a photographer at American Mutoscope & Biograph mounted his camera on the front of a trolley traveling over the Brooklyn Bridge. The three 90-foot rolls he created were edited together to complete the journey from Manhattan to Brooklyn, entitled Across the Brooklyn Bridge. As a commission by the Museum of Modern Art for the re-opening of their facility, American avant-garde filmmaker Bill Morrison took this remarkable footage and recombined it with itself to form a new split-screen extrapolation.
Bill Morrison
Director
Prince Consorts: In the Shadow of the Crown
2021
Fire Brigade
1896
The Flawed Genius of Jan Smuts
2016
Thus speaks Tarām-Kūbi - Assyrian Correspondence
2020
Dignitaries Coming Down Gangplank
1896
The Endless Summer
1966
Cannibal Island
2009
Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory
1895
The Greatest Knight - William the Marshal
2014
Panoramas of War
2018
The Song of Haenyeo
Sans Soleil
1983