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[WATCH] Planning New York - An SNL Animated Short

2025-04-07T12:00:00-04:00

Two men (Bowen Yang, Michael Longfellow) imagine and plan out New York City.

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[VIDEO] Clean Streets, a Touching Animated Short About 2 Long-Time Sanitation Worker Partners in the West Village

2023-08-12T12:00:00-04:00

StoryCorps is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Brooklyn that aims to instruct and inspire people to record each others' stories in sound.

Many of their recorded stories end up becoming animated, like this one entitled Clean Streets, in which two long-time partners recount fondly on their time together working as garbage collectors for the Department of Sanitation in the West Village.

Sanitation workers Angelo Bruno and Eddie Nieves worked together for nearly ten years on the same garbage route in Manhattan's West Village and became fixtures in the community. After 31 years on the job, Angelo retired. At StoryCorps, he talked with Eddie about the unexpected lessons he learned along the way and what he still misses about the job.

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[WATCH] 3 True New York City Horror Stories Animated

2022-10-11T12:00:00-04:00

3 New york City Horror Stories Animated. These are New york City Horror stories. Do enjoy and leave a like.

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Check Out "illusion", 2016 Short Film That Presents New York City as a Giant Fake Film Set

2020-09-18T16:00:00-04:00

In 2016, French filmmakers Claire & Max created this unique short film which imagines the entirety of New York City as a gigantic film set made up of fake building facades and props.

New York City. A switch noise and day appears instantly. This New-York is different: it’s a huge movie set with only facades without depth. Here, all people have a strange characteristic: a confusing and mesmerizing one… But what are we really?

Check out Claire & Max's technical writeup on how they achieved the look and feel of this film.

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[VIDEO] Architect Frank Lloyd Wright Explains How Arrogance and Greed Literally Built New York City

2020-05-04T12:00:00-04:00

The team at Blank on Blank recently uncovered a 1957 audio interview with iconic architect Frank Lloyd Wright in which he discusses how arrogance and greed built the NYC skyline, then turned the audio into a great animated short.

As part of our special series, The Experimenters, where we’re uncovering interviews with the icons of science, technology, and innovation, we found this 1957 interview with Frank Lloyd Wright. It’s part of a collection at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin celebrating The Mike Wallace Interview, a TV program that ran back in the late ‘50s. Frank Lloyd Wright’s designs and style seem very nice, very clean now, but at the time, he was a controversial personality. And like most famous architects, his work was as much hated as respected. And that’s what Mike Wallace wanted to talk about.

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[WATCH] "The Commute", an Animated Short About a Not-So-Ordinary Subway Ride

2019-07-28T15:30:00-04:00

Digital artist and animator Joy Chiang Ling created this fantastically detailed short animation in which the main character takes a journey on the 6 Line from The Bronx to Manhattan, encountering subway dancers, buskers, and homeless children along the way. The level of animated detail in the subway is fantastic, and the advertisements and sounds of the real NYC subway make it feel authentic.

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Architect Frank Lloyd Wright Explains How Arrogance and Greed Literally Built New York City

2019-07-27T15:30:00-04:00

As part of our special series, The Experimenters, where we’re uncovering interviews with the icons of science, technology, and innovation, we found this 1957 interview with Frank Lloyd Wright. It’s part of a collection at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin celebrating The Mike Wallace Interview, a TV program that ran back in the late ‘50s. Frank Lloyd Wright’s designs and style seem very nice, very clean now, but at the time, he was a controversial personality. And like most famous architects, his work was as much hated as respected. And that’s what Mike Wallace wanted to talk about.

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This Animated Mini-Documentary Tells the Incredible Story of 19th Century New York Journalist Nellie Bly

2019-06-03T15:30:00-04:00

“In my time, women usually had their life stories written for them. But I didn’t like the story I was given, so I wrote a new one.”

That’s Nellie Bly, the nom de plume of Elizabeth Cochrane. The story she wrote—in a newspaper in 1887, and, figuratively, of her life—would change the course of journalism in America.

A new short film from Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting brings Bly’s intrepid spirit to life. Nellie Bly Makes the News is an inventive and wildly entertaining account of the late reporter’s pioneering work in investigative journalism. The film’s director, Penny Lane, uses animation and a mix of documentary-style and reenacted interviews—drawn from primary sources, including Bly’s own writing and published interviews—to tell the story of a dynamic woman whose reportage is still being emulated today.

Check out the video's accompanying article or more on the incredible story of 19th century New York journalist Nellie Bly.

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This Clever Animation Shows Compressed New York City Subway Map Distance Against the Actual Geographic Distance

2019-03-27T12:30:00-04:00

The New York City subway map designers at the MTA have a tough task: to show the breadth of all the City's lines in a relatively small sized, rectangular map. The problem is that the City just isn't rectangular at all. Redditor and data visualization guru Richie Gelles created this great animated GIF showing the New York City subway map in its compressed form, versus a similar map that covers the actual geographic distance.

The official subway map simultaneously expands the area for Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn and compresses the outer reaches of the system in Queens, outer Brooklyn, and the Bronx. Definitely makes it more legible though, following the actual geography the whole Financial District is an incomprehensible blob of stations.

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[WATCH] Meet Mighty Oak, a Quirky Stop Motion Animation Studio in Red Hook, Brooklyn

2019-02-27T15:30:00-05:00

Mighty Oak is an animation studio hidden deep in the heart of Red Hook. Their handcrafted style is keeping the venerable art of stop motion animation alive in 2019.

Check out Mighty Oak to learn more about the local stop-motion animation company.

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