Skyscraper

"Skyscraper" is a film that was nominated for the Oscar for Best Live Action Short...losing to Jacques Cousteau's "The Golden Fish".

The story is about the building of a skyscraper, the Tishman Building on 5th Avenue in New York, from start to finish. I did appreciate how the film talks about the many different types of workers needed for this task. What I didn't appreciate was all the jazz music and occasional use of rhymes. I much preferred when the film consisted of several very New York-like guys talking about their work on the project. Overall, very stylistic but not a film I fell in love with...though I did appreciate parts of it, such as the selective use of color (sometimes hand colored) in order to make the black & white cinematography pop at the end.