This clip takes its name from the catalog descriptions found at the New York Public Library Digital Images Collection (digital collections.nypl.org). The images shown here are credited to photographers C.C. Lang ill and William Gray, and are dated to 1891. The final scene features actual motion picture footage looking north from 17th Street, shot by Thomas Edison's American Mutoscope Company. That clips and others are found at the Library of Congress at loc.gov.
The audio is "The Curtain Rises", courtesy of Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), and licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
