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Weegee’s New York: “… in any case, different.”
Movie Makers, May 1948
“… with characteristic candor, come up with a 2,000 foot 16mm film called Weegee’s New York… The Eastman Kodak Company, in returning rolls of Weegee Kodachrome, is said to have advised him to stop working in that medium.”
From the amazing Lantern, media history and digital library, website.
“Independently and Indirectly”


Film Daily, March 15, 1948, p. 8
“New York’s famed newspaper photographer, Weegee, had also shot stills and movie footage during the filming of ‘The Naked City,’
in New York and he independently and indirectly aided in the promotion.”
Shot movie footage!?!?!? Srsly… Squee! WTF…
From the amazing Lantern, Media History Digital Library, website.
“1,000 New Yorkers In Film, Don’t Even Know It”
Naked City… 107 New York Sights Seen in “Naked City”
Naked City… The Soul of a City…
Naked City… Picture Filmed on N.Y. Streets…

Naked City
“Barry Fitzgerald (in straw hat) questions a patrolman upon his arrival at the apartment of a murder victim. Curious onlookers surround then in the scene from “The Naked City,”
the late Mark Hellinger’s final production released through Universal-International Pictures.”
(The character on the lower right corner, holding a 4×5 camera, looks like, and might be Weegee…)







