Men at lunch : the untold story of a city's legend

Men at lunch The untold story of a city's legend

DVD - 2013

In New York City, 1932, a photograph, "Lunch atop a Skyscraper," is taken during the construction of 30 Rockefeller Plaza. In it, eleven workmen are taking their lunch break while casually perched along a steel girder. For 80 years, the identity of the eleven men and the photographer that immortalized them remained a mystery: their stories, lost in time, subsumed by the fame of the image itself. Then, at the start of the 21st century, the photograph finally began to give up some of its secrets.

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Subjects
Rockefeller Center > History.
Iron and steel workers > New York (State) > New York > Portraits > History.
Documentary photography > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Foreign workers > New York (State) > New York.
Photographers > New York (State) > New York.
Skyscrapers > New York (State) > New York > Design and construction.
New York (N.Y.) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) > History.
Documentary films.
Genres
Documentary films
Published
New York, NY : First Run Features [2013?]
Language
English
Other Authors
Seán Ó Cualáin (film director), Fionnula Flanagan, 1941- (narrator)
Item Description
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2012.
Special features: The 1929 crash; Rockfeller Center; Joe Woolhead on September 11, 2001; The inspiration of 'Lunch atop a skyscraper'; Ric Burns on 'Lunch atop a skyscraper'; previews of other films.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (67 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD, NTSC, all regions.
Audience
MPAA rating: Not rated.
Production Credits
Editor, Daíthi Connaughton; director of photography, Réamonn Macdonncha; composer, Mike McGoldrick.

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