Elevated Line, 5th Ave Brooklyn El, Circa Mid 1930's, a Motorman's View

Edward J Quigley, my father, was an amature photogapher. He was born in 1911 and lived his childhood years on 12th Street & 5th Ave. in Brooklyn, NY. The Elevated line in this film ran past his block. He died when I was 5, so I didn't know him or much about him. He did leave negatives and movies that I have scanned. I learned from his archive that, like most boys, he liked trains, planes & automibiles. (and fire engines) This film is one of his 8MM B&W home movies. It shows the 5th Ave Brooklyn El line from the Motorman's perspective. I estimate that it was taken in the mid 1930's.
The Fifth Avenue El line ran from around the Brooklyn Navy Yard, up Flatbush Avenue to Atlantic Avenue where it turned onto Fifth Avenue and then down to 36th or 39th St. to third Avenue.

In part, this film was shot thru dirty windows on several the trains. I thought originally that I was seeing fog in the streets. The film is dirty as well. This 8 MM film is close to a century old and spent most of that time in a damp basement and garage. This particular film is 200 feet long (a typical roll of 8MM home movie film was 50 feet yielding 3 minutes of play time. The stock film sold and loaded into the camera was 25 feet and had two sides. It was split in two during processing by Kodak, thus the final total of 50 feet per roll.) Once one side of the film was exposed, the camera had to be opened and the film flipped, thus exposing parts of the film to light. The camera was very low tech with very little in the way of exposure settings and a fixed focus . So, the quality of my scan is poor because I didn't have much to work with to begin with. I did slow and stop the action in a few spots so you could see what was originally a brief, quick take. I am just delighted that the film didn't break during the scan as many other films I scanned have, multiple times. Then I would have to utilize my poor splicing skills.
Thanks goes to the folks New York's Railroads Subways & Trolleys Past & Present on Facebook for encouraging me to posts this here.
I hope you enjoy it. I thank you and my father thanks you.
Bob Quigley