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Manhatta

Manhatta
Charles Sheeler
Paul Strand
1921 United States 10 minutes silent

A visual poem on New York’s first skyscrapers, based on Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. It has been described as “the first avant garde” film in America.

Production :
Paul Strand

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