Paris, New York & Havana Come to Life in Colorized Films Shot Between 1890 and 1931 | Box of delight | Scoop.it
Cities have long provided a rich environment for photography, at least to photographers not interested exclusively in nature. But only with the advent of the motion picture camera did the subject of cities find a photographic form that truly suited it. Hence the popularity in the 1920s of "city symphony" films, each of which sought to capture and present the real life of a different bustling industrial metropolis.