... or at least about nine miles to the south. This 1969 short is just plain weird,and is often shown on Turner Classic Movies' Underground which salutes offbeat material as well as films from the Warner Brothers vault that nobody wants to watch. But this is worth it for the goofiness of it all.
This fifty year old ten minute short tries to be a travelogue of life in Greenwich Village by making it look like villagers have nothing better to do but wander the streets in search of rare books and antiques and go biking in the park. Then it - not cleverly at all - segues into a commercial for buying cotton clothes. No wonder most of the people in this short look like models - they are!
TCM shows another short similar to this - a short about relaxation techniques that is actually a commercial for highly addictive tranquilizers. But at least those two things have something to do with one another.
Greenwich Village does not look like this at all today. It has become one of the most expensive places to live in the nation, so forget about stay at home moms pushing strollers through the streets! It is interesting that this was made in 1969, the year of the Stonewall riot and the place and the year where the LGBTQ rights movement was born. I wonder if this short was made before or after that event?