A Bronx Morning (1931)

Directed by

Jay Leyda

Genre

documentary film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

11 min

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 29 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A short film shows a morning in the Bronx borough of New York City. It captures ordinary people going about their daily routines on the streets.

observationalnostalgicquieteverydayblack-and-whitestreet-levelbustlingtime-capsule

What happens

A Bronx Morning is a 1931 American Pre-Code avant-garde film by American filmmaker Jay Leyda (1910–1988). In 2004, A Bronx Morning was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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