This clip shows a trip taken from the suburbs of Irvington, NY to Manhattan in the spring of 1966.
The credits are a CU of letters on a blanket, which first reads “New York,” then “Sunday,” and, finally, “Pan Asia production”. A brutalist style high-rise is seen at twilight. Two men looking at the camera, stand in a parking lot. A crowd is walking down a street with Chinese restaurants, and bars that have neon signs; there is a shot of a telephone booth with a pagoda style roof.
A high shot sweeps across a parking lot and a tree heavy suburb that extends into the distance. Inside a dark room, perhaps a bedroom, one can see a television, a pull out couch, a CU of objects on a table including grapes, a cassette, and ashtray; a clock shows the time as 9:20 AM. The two men from the parking lot are seen making space in a car trunk and putting in golf clubs. A bus drives into Irvington Bus Terminal.
A POV moving shot from the car shows billboards with ads for Toyota Corona, Hygrade’s Stadium Franks, and a Datsun. A CU of a W shaped magnet on a dented car door is seen. A number of low angle shots of Manhattan buildings are cut with shots of a man sitting on the sidewalk with a sketchpad, a “Wall Street” sign, and the streets between the skyscrapers. A family walks down the steps of a courtyard and the camera gives a CU of a tree’s shadow.
