broadway mansions

Addictive! Colorized footage from old Shanghai (1934)

avezink Aug 12, 2020 13:52

Building the Broadway Mansions:

The oiginal footage comes from USC Fox Movietone collection; I posted some stills earlier.

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#149 Shanghai Architecture Series: Broadway 百老汇路

avezink Apr 29, 2020 12:11

This article is adapted from the bi-weekly architecture series in Magazeta: https://magazeta.com/arc-broadway/

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40+ videos of old Shanghai

avezink Oct 19, 2018 11:25

Among the 40+ amazing videos of old Shanghai in the USC Moving Image Collections there are some brazen construction workers building the Broadway Mansions in 1934:

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