Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today (2005)

Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today

2005

Documentary

Synopsis

The Museum of the City of New York’s award-winning short documentary explores how New York City grew from a settlement of a few hundred Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans into the metropolis we know today and features animated maps and archival photographs, prints, and paintings from the Museum’s collections. Now expanded and updated, the film's final chapter captures the astonishing – if sometimes challenging – transformations the city has experienced in the first decades of the 21st century.

Credits

Director

Jake Burton

James Sanders

Cast

Celedonia Jones as Additional Voices

Cynthia Nixon as Additional Voices

Joe Morton as Additional Voices

John Guare as Additional Voices

Louis Auchincloss as Additional Voices

Pete Hamill as Additional Voices

Stanley Tucci as Narrator (voice)