Skyscraper Souls / 1932

Skyscraper Souls is a Pre-Code 1932 drama film starring Warren William and Maureen O'Sullivan. The film was directed by Edgar Selwyn and is based upon the novel Skycraper by Faith Baldwin. The film depicts the aspirations and lives of several people in the Seacoast National Bank Building. Among them is David Dwight, the womanizing bank owner who keeps his estranged wife happy by paying her bills. His secretary Sarah wants him to get a divorce so they can marry.

Skyscrapers / 1906

A new skyscraper is being built in New York City, and numerous workmen are busy at hazardous jobs high above the ground. When one of the workers, Dago Pete, deliberately starts a fight, he is immediately fired. But the discharged worker soon comes up with a plan to commit a robbery and get even. His scheme could affect the lives of several others.

Skyscraper Fire Fighters / 2007

Could Professor Jose Torero's fire protection system have saved the Twin Towers? When a fire gets out of control in a skyscraper it tests fire fighters to their limits. Predicting how a fire is behaving high up in a building is almost impossible. The fire fighters who entered the Twin Towers on 11 September 2001 could only guess at what was happening almost 1000 feet above them. That fateful day brought about the death of 343 New York fire fighters. Jose Torero believes fire fighters need not be put in such danger and that new technology could have saved many of the 343 fire fighters who died doing their duty that day. He believes he could even have saved the Twin Towers. He has spent the last ten years developing a system that could change the way fires are fought forever. It's called Firegrid. It's a revolutionary approach to fire fighting that could save thousands of lives, giving man the upper hand on one of his oldest enemies.

Bob the Builder On Site: Skyscrapers / 2009

Bob is back in an-all new construction adventure to teach the art of building skyscrapers. Along with Tumbler, Dizzy, Lofty and Flex, Bob is always ready to tackle even the tallest projects. No problem is too high to solve when you have positive-thinking and teamwork. In this exciting mix of animation and live action, you'll find yourself on top of the world!

Skyscrapers and Brassieres / 1963

Skyscraper Film / 2023

Skyscraper Film is a cameraless handmade film collage created from scraps of 16mm orphan films from the 1970s. Originally produced to promote tourism in North America, these films are remediated by the filmmaker to create an abstract collage via the emulsion lifting/ emulsion grafting technique. Using this method, the filmmaker lifts by hand the emulsion layer from the film base and subsequently places it on a different film base. This way a celluloid collage is created, then re-animated.

Swimming With Skyscrapers / 2001

James Pittar is blind. He is also a long distance swimmer. In his amazing career he has swum across the English channel and taken on sharks and oil tankers. He is about to embark on a 48 kilometre swim around Manhatten Island. James will be the first blind person ever to complete the 8.5 hour marathon. An uplifting and hopeful story of one man's dreams fulfilled.

Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan / 2006

Documentary about New York skyscrapers.

Hesanut Builds a Skyscraper / 1914

A very strange-looking piece of animation from before the triumph of the Bray model of cartooning, this 1914 cartoon, to the modern eye, looks like quarter animation (in which only about a fourth of the movements are covered) and scratchboard work. Hesanut, the star of perhaps half a dozen cartoons from this period, is a top-hatted fellow who builds a skyscraper by placing the girders in place and then using a sort of brick cannon to put up the facade.

Skyscrapers of New York City, from the North River / 19036.01 voti

A beautiful panoramic view of lower New York from Barclay Street to Battery Park, showing a beautiful stereoscopic effect of the sky-scrapers in the business section of the city.

Golden Bat: Phantom of the Skyscraper / 1950

The first film appearence of The Golden Bat. Lost media.

A City Grows: The Skyscraper / 1977

The film is a documentary on the construction of a skyscraper, narrated by the project's architect, crane operator, and various specialists. It details the process from planning to completion, emphasizing the efficient use of limited urban space by building upward. Key phases include laying deep foundations, constructing a massive steel frame, and installing interior and exterior elements. The building, featuring high-speed elevators, escalators, stores, and restaurants, functions as a self-contained urban hub. The project, culminating in a "topping out" ceremony, symbolizes the collaborative effort of hundreds over two years, resulting in an 82-story building that significantly contributes to city life.

Skyscraper Murder Case / 1976

Death stalks a towering hotel under construction in Tokyo and love brings the guilty parties to a justice of their own choice. The motives are control of the hotel, blackmail and jealousy. The principals involved are two business partners, a political string puller and his son, lovers carrying on an illicit affair and a secretary turned blackmailer.

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Moscow Skyscraper / 2005

Through a first-person narrator, archival footage and photographs, and a contemporary camera, Pavel Lounguine uses the Moscow skyscraper where he grew up as a touchstone for looking back to Stalin and then examining today's Russia. This is Stalin's pyramid, his immortality. We visit people who have lived there for 50 years, see their flats (some modernized, others decaying), and listen to their histories: the son of a KGB man, a retired rocket scientist, a sculptor's son. an actor, seamstresses at a uniform shop, an ex-pat, and two artists. We see a kindergarten and remember marching; we watch parades and discuss surveillance. The commentary is wry: Putin emerges as Stalin's heir.

Skyscraper / 2022

Armed with the motto 'It’s never too late', an ambitious Aamira tries to do the impossible by investing in talent and multiple ventures.

Under the Skyscraper / 2002

A Yi and A Bing are both working in the same company, living in the basement 4 of a luxury building with both business and residence attributes. A Yi went back to his hometown at Sichuan before Chinese New Year, so he could earn double wage for the Chinese New Year duty. The movie records the whole process of him back to home. His home is at a mountain, has elders and kids at home, has many trivial things waits him to settle. A Bing married when he is forty. After finish the marriage outside Beijing, he came back to company. He has no feel to his newly married wife, A Jiao. He still thinks of his ex-girlfriend who has cohabited with him for 3 years.

Skyscraper / 2000

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Skyscraper / 1986

The starting point of the work is the idea of ​​making the structure of the image audible via the simultaneously exposed light tone, of generating sound and moving images using photographic processes, but without a film camera. The dramaturgical stipulations for this resulted from the photo images, taken evenly as a series of 5 from different perspectives, which resulted from different distances to the photographed object, edited and expanded with a copying technique that I have been continuously using numerous photographs since I was 16 and material collages. This collage of moving images and the experience and knowledge that I was able to derive from it became the cornerstone for my creative ideas.

Skyscrapers / 2017

Little by little two buildings rise in the sky; two billionaires helped by the most renowned architects in the world, both build his own skyscraper, always more luxurious and higher. But how high will they go?