movies_creation
American Movie Archives (美國電影檔案)
- Title
- Birth of a City
- Notes
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Run Time: 0:14:36
Audio/Visual: sound, b/w - Keyword
- need meta
- Theme
- Where they are Now
- Review
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Oddly enough, Broomfield Heights has finally realized the dream of the bombastic narrative and has gone beyond a city and is now City and County of Broomfield. The population is currently between 30 and 35 thousand as predicted by the Turnpike Land Company. While it may be a bit of a bedroom community for Denver and Boulder it is not the sort of suburb assumed by the two previous, rather cynical reviews of the film. It has a thriving technical park and other industry. The site of the original "giant shopping mall" is home to a Target and a couple of serviving restaurants and professional services and is hardly noticeable but much land has been annexed in the formation of the new "city and county of" and the shopping district has been recreated as a new high end mall and shopping village a bit closer to the front range and Highway 36 to allow easy access from Boulder and Denver. The city's massive new recreation center is nearing completion and it is merely the begining of the new plans for the downtown.
There are numerous "developments" withing the city limits now so it has the begining of its own "urban sprawl" these days. Still, it is a thriving growing town, city whatever term makes you most comfortable that has its own identity and a view to the future.
It would be silly to think the film was something other than a "commercial for living in this 'city' or 'town'", why else would it have been made? But just because the company that started the venture was looking for a profit (they were red blooded American capitalists after all, even if they do invoke the idealism of Greeley) doesn't mean the people who settled here were anything less. Stop in sometime, you might like the place.
(Reviewer: ColoradoRuss) - Location
- A/V room, 2/F