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Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

Because it's not like we started a year ago and just looked for all these things and...

Because it's not like we started a year ago and just looked for all these things and filled up the files

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Because it's not like we started a year ago
00:00:03.375 --> 00:00:05.832
and just looked for all these things
00:00:05.833 --> 00:00:07.666
and filled up the files.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
15
Timestamp in Movie
00:50:17
Uploaded
Oct 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Zipporah Films,JustFilms / Ford Foundation,PBS

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Movie Summary

A look within the walls of the New York Public Library.
We have been clipping the pictures - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
We have been clipping the pictures
So there's not only the interest - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:11
So there's not only the interest
So you get to see the typefaces they used, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:12
So you get to see the typefaces they used,
You can see the look of different things - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:11
You can see the look of different things
So, it really is like looking back in time. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:05
So, it really is like looking back in time.
A lot of the '50s and '60s stuff here - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
A lot of the '50s and '60s stuff here
I'm going to give you time to go around - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:10
I'm going to give you time to go around
And if you want to share the folder, that's fine, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
And if you want to share the folder, that's fine,
So, you have your own inspiration, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
So, you have your own inspiration,
My grandparents were all second-generation New York Jews. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
My grandparents were all second-generation New York Jews.
They were not immigrants, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:05
They were not immigrants,
And I was very interested in the journey - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
And I was very interested in the journey
I mean, we talk a lot about the immigrant journey - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
I mean, we talk a lot about the immigrant journey
But we don't think as much - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:17
But we don't think as much
And so my first book, I mean, my dissertation - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:19
And so my first book, I mean, my dissertation
And then I realized, after I finished writing that, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:15
And then I realized, after I finished writing that,
Well, they almost all took place in delis. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
Well, they almost all took place in delis.
There was something about the deli - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:10
There was something about the deli
And then I said to myself, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:09
And then I said to myself,
And what was their function - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:09
And what was their function