VIDEOS
City Close-Up
The Towers, Jackson Heights, NY 1925.
Produced by City-Close Up, Inc., 1996.
Producer: Mary Butler.
Cameraman/director: Winston Mitchell.
Script by Barry Lewis & Mary Butler.
Produced in co-operation with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (New York).
25 minutes.
Five five-minute vignettes of five historic New York City neighborhoods: Crown Heights, Jackson Heights, Fordham Rd, St. George and the Upper West Side. Each neighborhood is showcased through historical footage, contemporary videotape and interviews with current residents. Barry Lewis is on-camera host and voice-over narrator.
Shown on New York's Channel Thirteen (WNET) in the 1998 to 2001 seasons.
City Close-Up, Inc is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to examining urban life and evolution through our city's built environment. Barry Lewis and Mary Butler can provide scripting, research & production services for videos, DVD's, brochures, booklets & other written material that will highlight architecture, city planning & design issues affecting how we have built-and build-our cities and how we live in them.