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==Production background== ''Manhatta'' documents the early 20th-century look of [[Manhattan]]. With the city as subject, the film consists of 65 shots sequenced in a loose non-narrative structure, beginning with the Staten Island ferry approaching Manhattan and concludes with a sunset view from a [[skyscraper]]. Often considered by some to be the first American [[Experimental film|avant-garde film]],<ref>{{Cite book|title=Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema.|last=Gerstner|first=David|publisher=Duke University Press|year=2006|isbn=978-0822337638|location=Durham|pages=119β64}}</ref> its primary objective is to explore the relationship between photography and film. Camera movement is kept to a minimum, as is incidental motion within each shot. Each frame provides a view of the city that has been carefully arranged into abstract compositions.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/artists_view/manhatta_main.html |title=Artists View New York | Explore & Learn | the Metropolitan Museum of Art |access-date=December 29, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091008013735/http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/artists_view/manhatta_main.html |archive-date=October 8, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''Manhatta'' was a collaboration between painter/photographer Charles Sheeler and photographer Paul Strand. The film features [[intertitle]]s that include excerpts from the writings of [[Walt Whitman]].
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