The Great Gray Bridge: the George Washington Bridge Under Construction, 1929

Posted by Content Coordinator on Friday, January 11th, 2019

 

The Hudson River Bridge (it was not called the George Washington Bridge until it was nearly done) was one of the engineering marvels of its day. The longest suspension bridge in the world when it opened, it opened a year early because construction went faster than planned. Fox Movietone News’s cameramen visited the bridge frequently in 1929, recording the progress of tower construction and the spinning of the suspension cables. This video is a compilation of those films. The centerpiece is a dizzying six-minute, 180-degree view of the top of the New York tower, suspended from a derrick on top.

–Speed Graphic Film and Video on YouTube

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