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For ten months after it was completed in early 1930, the Chrysler Building in Midtown Manhattan was the tallest in the world. In this fantastic vintage film from the Smithsonian's America in Color: the 1920s documentary, see how construction workers risked all to install the famous metal eagles and top of the iconic building, in color.

The skyscrapers of Manhattan needed a new, bolder type of construction worker. They got them in 'roughnecks' - hardened men who worked without safety harnesses, hard hats or even bathroom breaks.

Filmmaker Michael Doran visited New York City last year and recently put together this stunning, cinematographic visual love letter to the City. Check it out!

Those of you that actually pay any attention to my Youtube channel will notice this edit has been released about 8 months after my first NYC edit. This if for one reason and one reason only: 'editor's block'. I've wanted to go to NYC since I was a kid and I wanted to film it ever since I became a filmmaker. For these reasons, I drove myself crazy, trying to make the 'perfect film' as I felt I had to do justice to my dream. I obsessed so much that it put me off making it. Last night I gave myself an ultimatum; I was not going to bed until I finished this thing, and here it is.