毕竟是影评,还是要说些个人感受的。作为城市交响曲的代表作,本片真实记录了当时美国的发达。我们可以在短片中看到近20层高的楼房,还有特别高像金字塔一样的地标性建筑,有匆匆行走的人群,像极了《工厂的大门》里的镜头,有铁轨架设各处,有轮船行驶于水上,还有建设施工的工人与仪器。本片真实记录了当时这个城市的发展规模与速度。
下面对于字幕进行记录,基本上所有台词都来自于Walt Whitman的《草叶集》:
(for all races are here) City of tall facades of marble and iron. Proud and passionate city.
When million-footed Manhattan unpent, descends to its pavements.
High growths of iron, slender, strong, splendidly uprising toward clear skies.
The building of cities - the shovel, the great derrick, the wall scaffold, the work of walls and ceilings.
Where our tall-topt marble and iron beauties rang on opposite sides.
City of hurried and sparkling waters. City nested in bays.
This world all spanned with iron rails.
With lines of steamships threading every sea.
Shapes of the bridges, vast frameworks, girders, arches.
On the river the shadowy group, the big steam-tug closely flank'd on each side by barges.
Where the city's ceaseless crowd moves on, the live long day.
Gorgeous clouds of sunset drench with your splendor me, or the men and women generations after me.
The End