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Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

At a time when it's seen to be quite disreputable to be making movies and to be involved...

At a time when it's seen to be quite disreputable to be making movies and to be involved in the theater, and so on and so forth

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At a time when it's seen
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to be quite disreputable to be making movies
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and to be involved in the theater,
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and so on and so forth.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
18
Timestamp in Movie
00:56:36
Uploaded
Oct 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Zipporah Films,JustFilms / Ford Foundation,PBS

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A look within the walls of the New York Public Library.
And they also are moving very much - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
And they also are moving very much
And, of course, they're very involved - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
And, of course, they're very involved
And they have a sense of popular taste - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
And they have a sense of popular taste
"Send a salami to your boy in the army." - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
"Send a salami to your boy in the army."
This gets back to this whole theme - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
This gets back to this whole theme
And so, if the whole point is that you're sending a salami - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:13
And so, if the whole point is that you're sending a...
There's a lot of subconscious symbolism - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
There's a lot of subconscious symbolism
What's happening after World War II is - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
What's happening after World War II is
And they're no longer congregating in delis - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:12
And they're no longer congregating in delis
So you have shopping centers, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
So you have shopping centers,
Jews are much more part of, or want to be much more - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
Jews are much more part of, or want to be much more
So the food doesn't go away, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
So the food doesn't go away,
Supermarkets, right? - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:05
Supermarkets, right?
♪ For that old-fashioned flavor ♪ - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:29
♪ For that old-fashioned flavor ♪
My mother sold records - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
My mother sold records
He had a certain charm, and he could sing, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
He had a certain charm, and he could sing,
And the year after I was born, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:09
And the year after I was born,
Do you want... Do you want to see, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
Do you want... Do you want to see,
Well, there's a little story behind this - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
Well, there's a little story behind this
You've got to understand, the bands of the 1950s - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:10
You've got to understand, the bands of the 1950s