In 1899, a photographer captured the journey from Manhattan to Brooklyn by mounting a camera on a trolley crossing the Brooklyn Bridge, creating a 3-minute film. Decades later, avant-garde filmmaker Bill Morrison reworked this footage, recombining it in a split-screen format for a new and unique cinematic experience.
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The first film shot in the United States, a three-minute journey across the Brooklyn Bridge, was captured by a photographer in 1899.