Facts and sources · 《紐約的一天 / One Day in New York》
The film has no narration. Every number, date and quotation on screen is listed with its source and the source's wording. Checked on 2026-10-20; before the last render, the on-screen text in tools/render.py was compared item by item.
On screen
| On screen (Chinese / English) | Claim | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 8,804,190 · 紐約市人口 · 2020 普查 / NEW YORK CITY · 2020 CENSUS | Census of 1 April 2020: New York City population 8,804,190 | F1 |
| 布魯克林大橋，每天 / BROOKLYN BRIDGE · EACH DAY, 2024; 103,051 機動車 (vehicles) / 28,845 行人 (pedestrians) / 5,504 自行車 (cyclists) | Average daily crossings in 2024 | F2 |
| 1899 (left cell of the split screen) | The left cell is the Edison company's 1899 film of a train crossing the bridge | F3 |
| ≈220,000 · 每天走進時報廣場（2024）/ PEOPLE A DAY · TIMES SQUARE · 2024 | About 220,000 people a day in 2024 | F4 |
| The whole line is visible on the book page; title card: 我也曾在人群裡。/ …I WAS ONE OF A CROWD, · WALT WHITMAN, LEAVES OF GRASS, 1860 | Second half of Whitman's line, 1860 edition p.380 | F5 |
| Thin 24-hour ring (bottom right) | A graphic, not a measurement: it only shows the film's time running from night to night, stopping when the film brakes and running backwards in flashbacks. The footage was not shot on a single day (see F6) | — |
F1 Population of New York City
- U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts, New York city, New York — https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/newyorkcitynewyork/ Wording: "Population, Census, April 1, 2020 8,804,190"
- NYC Department of City Planning, NYC Population — https://www.nyc.gov/site/planning/planning-level/nyc-population/nyc-population.page Wording: "The enumerated population of New York City's was 8,804,190 as of April 1, 2020, a record high population."
F2 Brooklyn Bridge daily average
- NYC DOT, Brooklyn Bridge — https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/infrastructure/brooklyn-bridge.shtml Wording: "As of 2024, an average of 103,051 vehicles, 28,845 pedestrians, and 5,504 cyclists travel over the Brooklyn Bridge each day."
F3 The 1899 film
- Wikimedia Commons file page (from the Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, digital ID ntscrm.00045645, https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/ntscrm.00045645): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Brooklyn_to_New_York_via_Brooklyn_Bridge,no._2(1899).webm Title "New Brooklyn to New York via Brooklyn Bridge, no. 2", camera credit James H. White; licence note "published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1931".
- The Library of Congress entry for No. 1 of the same film, https://www.loc.gov/item/2017604953 , states that the two films are nearly identical and were both produced by Edison Manufacturing Co.; the Silent Era filmography records the copyright registration of No. 2 as 22 September 1899 (Thomas A. Edison). The picture says only "1899", no exact date.
F4 Pedestrians in Times Square
- Times Square Alliance, Market Research & Data — https://www.timessquarenyc.org/business-community/market-research-data Wording: "In 2024, roughly 220,000 pedestrians entered Times Square each day." The picture uses "≈" and "約" (about) to mark it as approximate; it gives only 2024 and no figures for other years (the same page also has a range of "200,000–250,000" and a peak day of 330,000; the film uses neither).
F5 The Whitman quotation
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860), p.380, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" section 6. Scan: University of California Libraries / Internet Archive — https://archive.org/details/whitleavesofgrass00whitrich/page/380 Wording (checked word by word against the scanned page): "Just as any of you is one of a living crowd, I was one of a crowd," The whole line is visible in the book-page shot; the title card takes only the second half, "I was one of a crowd," (preceded by an ellipsis, all caps, comma kept). The Chinese "我也曾在人群裡。" is this film's own translation ("也", "also", picks up the first half, "Just as any of you…").
F6 Notes on the footage itself (not on screen, for the record)
- Schwab time-lapse: the Commons description says it was shot from the evening of 2023-07-22 to the early morning of 07-24, from the 36th floor of the Motto by Hilton New York City Chelsea, on a GoPro Hero 11. The film uses it as the clock of "one day" and gives no specific date.
- Herder's "New York in Motion" was published in 2018 (Commons records 2018-05-30) and is made of time-lapses from more than 20,000 photographs and 60/120 fps slow motion.
- Authors, dates and licence basis of the aerial and street footage are in CREDITS / SOURCES.md.
- NASA ISS047 photo: photographed by Tim Kopra (Commons credit NASA/Tim Kopra).