The little city symphony with the $300 deficit would grow to have a budget of $30,000 a year.

And the orchestra is superb, giving ebullient life to Bernstein's lighthearted city symphony of a score (2:30).

Uricchio has written about the status of non-fiction imagery, focusing on the representation of the city from the actualités and panoramas of early cinema, through city symphonies, to digital urban simulations.

The most acclaimed work is undoubtedly the seminal city symphony, Man with a Movie Camera (1927).

Described as "city symphony", the eleven-minute European style film recorded a Bronx street in New York City before it is crowded with traffic.

And the orchestra, under the direction of Rob Fisher, is superb, giving ebullient life to Bernstein's lighthearted city symphony of a score.

Though Regen can hardly be called pastoral, its artistic expression evokes a less frantic poetry than that of the city symphonies it is often compared with.

Many of the conductors and players of the large city symphony and philharmonic orchestras responsible for the grand productions of disco were seasoned veterans of orchestras throughout the country, some even going back to the big-band era.

For all its awkwardness and uncertainty, the film is a city symphony, romantic yet scathing, lyrical with street life and vaulting skylines, reckless with first adventure, and awed by the abstractions, both intellectual and poetic, on which the great machine runs.