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November 27, 2012  |  An Auteurist History of Film
An Auteurist History of Film: Three Portraits of 1950s New York City
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In the Street. 1952. USA. Photographed by Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, James Agee

These notes accompany a series of short films about New York City in the 1950s on November 28, 29, and 30 in Theater 3.

Cinematic New York street scenes date back to the very beginnings of the medium, in the 1890s.