The film follows a group of approximately a dozen men who are suspended on the cable of a large crane atop a building under construction. As the men are lifted over the site and gradually lowered, they wave to the camera. Notice one guy who climbs up the cable.
Photographed October 21, 1901. Location: Broadway and 13th Street, New York, N.Y.
Title: A Perilous Proceeding
Contributor Names: Congdon, James, camera.
Created / Published: United States : American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1902.
Library of Congress: 00694383