Outerborough (2005)

- HD 1080
- Runtime: 9m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Bill Morrison
- keywords: historical, brooklyn, new york city, brooklyn bridge, usa history, travelogue, 19th century, history
- Production_studio: Hypnotic Pictures
- providers: OVID
- The Outerborough is featured in the top rankings of 2005
- #39 in Top Documentary Movies of 2005
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.