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200 Streetfilms!

by Clarence Eckerson, Jr. on April 8, 2009 | 2,609 Plays
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It's hard to believe, but we now have over 200 Streetfilms on the site to choose from! Most of them really high quality productions that are being used around the world to fight for better, more livable streets, and a happier planet. Speaking of happy, be sure to click this sure-to-make-you-smile, 3 minute celebratory promo which features some random moments from over 50 Streetfilms, has 200 edits, and guest stars from Jan Gehl to David Byrne. Sit back and you'll see some of the hundreds of people we've featured over the last few years. Did you make the cut?

PS: Oh, and while you're at it, please leave us some love in the comments section. During any recession its always good for the boss to hear feedback on how we're doing. :)

[music]
Speaker: [1:04] This is part of our Go Green initiative this year.
Jan Gehl: [1:06] The bell of the bicycle culture. So that you become so safe and so obvious, that more and more people start to bicycle.
Crowd: [1:14] Car-free Central Park!
Speaker [1:16] What do we want?
Crowd: [1:17] Car-free Central Park!
Speaker: [1:19] Every day we go to school and we have to take a lot of precautions.
Janette Sadik-Kahn: [1:23] Here we are at beautiful Gansevoort Plaza, and again this is just showing what it is that we can do in very short order with temporary materials.
Speaker: [foreign language] [1:35]
April Greene: [1:37] MTA New York City Transit Rocks
Mark Gorton: [1:39] Three minutes of sirens and horns from this fire engine for this guy to decide, "Well, like, oh I guess I have to move." [sirens and horns]
Speaker: [1:44] We're going to be letting all those new cyclists coming in today bring the electronic gong. [loud gong]
Speaker: [1:50] Welcome to the going to green park in South Bronx.
Speaker: [1:54] This is a real tipping point. This is really going to make the city a more enjoyable place to live. [music]

[2:00]



Clarence Eckerson, Jr. has been making fantastical transportation media in NYC since the late 1990s. He's never had a driver's license and never will.

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  • Lazer Mazer

    I love promos! And sasquatches....or is that sasquatchi?

  • http://www.livablestreets.com/people/bikeportland Jonathan Maus

    awesome news Clarence and the entire streetfilms crew. these videos have had a real and important impact in moving the conversation about livable streets forward. not just the conversation actually, but in making real projects happen all over the globe.

    here's to another 200! that would be fanTASTIC!

  • http://www.livablestreets.com/people/steely Paul Steely White

    we're going to play this in the T.A. office at the start of every workday! with any luck, we will work with the fervor that you bring every day, Clarence!

  • http://www.livablestreets.com/people/npGREENWAY Scott Mizée

    to repeat Gil... and Jonathan.. fanTASTIC!

  • Ed Pino

    Wow 200 you do a terrific job and a great public service. Thank you Clarence and the whole Street Films crew.
    I have seen most of the films and my favorite is still BIKE BOX! Keep this important work coming.
    Ed

  • http://www.walkandbikeforlife.org Gil Penalosa

    Dear Clarence and Steetfilms TEAM,

    CONGRATULATIONS!!! An image is worth a thousand words...your videos are worth millions! You are influencing positively how people create more vibrant cities, with healthy communities and happier residents enjoying great public places all over the world.

    Keep up your enthusiastic and magnificent work for hundreds of additional videos. THANKS for your dedication to improve the quality of life for ALL.

    Gil Penalosa, Executive Director Walk & Bike for Life, Ontario, Canada

  • mary beth kelly, Upper West Side Streets Renaissance

    Good morning to you too, Clarence!
    Finding your 200 Streetfilms celebratory video was a wonderful way to wake up. Thank you so much for giving us all yet another fabulous piece of creative artistry; with fun in its seams and happy faces on the screen. Who wouldn't want to join the party?
    Appreciatively, Mary Beth
    - Show quoted text -

  • http://www.bikeblognyc.com Michael Green

    Great job Street Filmers. 200 videos! Wow! Hey how come I'm not in any of them. Sheesh, what's a biker to do?!?!?

    I'm not mad (a little)

    Here's to 200 more.
    keep up the great work.

    Michael Green

  • http://www.livablestreets.com/people/Elly Elly Blue

    So much love. Keep 'em coming! We need these here in Portland.

  • http://www.alifelessmediated.com Nicholas Whitaker

    wow! 200 already. Glad i could help out and be a part of it.

  • http://www.tourdequeens.org Helen Ho

    200 Streetfilms! Congratulations!

    I'm so inspired by Streetfilms as it re-motivates me to kick some advocacy butt everytime I watch a film. You guys rock!

    I can't wait for Clarence the traffic calming robot to make his debut.

  • http://www.altaplanning.com Mia Birk

    Congrats Clarence and Streetfilms! You're awesome! Thanks for all you're doing to help make the world a better place. Mia Birk

  • http://www.livablestreets.com/people/pfrishauf Peter Frishauf

    Clarence,

    There's nothing like showing a StreetFilms to win over people who have trouble re-imagining how we can change our streets and transpo with smart, new thinking. I use your videos all the time with skeptics, and it never fails to get them thinking -- and often 'cmon over to our people-friendly side. Your videos not only show what can be done, they do it with a winning sense of humanity -- and often humor. Thanks to you and your colleagues in Livable Streets for creating such an effective repository of knowledge and information. Keep 'em coming!

  • JayS

    Great work. I discovered both Street Films and my other favorite bike blog the same day when you were filming at Sunnyside School in Portland. You continue to inspire people with every new video. Thanks so much for documenting and promoting the changes happening right now all over our country. I look forward to many years more of your fantastic work.

  • Jessica Roberts

    I love Streetfilms! They're inspiring, educational, fun, and they give us hope for the future of our cities. From Portland, OR - thank you for all you do!!

  • Clarence Eckerson, Jr.

    Geeez, all you folks are so nice to us! Thanks so much from the bottom of mine, Elizabeth, and Robin's collective hearts!

  • Erik

    Streetfilms is some of the best video content on the internet. Streetfilms promotes action, community and a positive outlook on the possibilities of our livable spaces. Keep up the work.

  • http://www.livablestreets.com/people/darkpilot Ian D

    It's not the 200 films that's a milestone; it's the tens or hundreds of thousands of people who have been stopped in their tracks, spun around, and said, "maybe things don't have to be this way."

    The things I do and the way our neighborhood is changing has a lot to do with the vision that's inspired from the Streetfilms library. Congratulations and thanks to the whole team for the work (and the fun).

  • http://www.brooklyngreenway.org Milton Puryear

    Clarence,

    Thanks to you and the Street Films team. Our efforts would be so much less without your fun spirit and ability to amplify and inspire. Thanks for all of your coverage over the years.

    Milton Puryear

  • Shirley Secunda

    Congrats to Clarence and the Streetfilms team on this milestone among your many including getting people to take notice of how they can better their communities with livable streets and inspiring them to get those improvements going - with your clear, colorful, exciting, educational and very effective presentations. Your recent showing for CB2 Manhattan has already spurred several block associations to pursue street closings! Really exciting to be part of this increasingly successful movement. Thankyou!

  • http://www.treehugger.com Michael Graham Richard

    Congrats! I'll do a post on TH about it :)

  • Lisa B.

    THanks for the wonderful work that you are doing.

    I love visiting trehugger and streetfilms. Web sites like these give me hope that not all is lost and that we still take back our streets and have better communities %)

  • http://northbird.blogspot.com Shin-pei

    Where would we be without StreetFilms? Thanks Clarence for always connecting happiness to transportation wonkiness.