Scott Frank's film swaggers through a grungy Red Hook neighbourhood where there's a pigeon coop on every roof and a pair of sneakers strung from every power cable.
The cable is strung from point A to point B -- between two sturdy trees, say, or two deeply dug supports.
Once, the blacksmiths strung a cable around a rim inside the workshop, which they used to tow a van halfway off the ground.
Earlier this year, Cuba began sending and receiving data traffic through a fiber-optic cable strung from Venezuela in 2011 that provided the island's first hard-wired Internet connection to the outside world.
Its middle section looks like a bridge, but its simple concrete towers, the tallest in Sweden, and the cables strung from them, are more elegant than mighty.
The solution was eventually found by stringing a cable between the Heyford's fixed landing gear struts.
The camera's auto-release cable is strung from Dorfman's hand, through space, and past the edge of the frame, hung in the "perfect place" as "sort of an act of God," she says.
At the four other bridges, run by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the cables are strung from solid towers to the roadway, precluding such daredevil efforts.
In any case, there's much to see here, including the one-room log cabin Mr. Anthony built at 14 and the log house he began in 1988 and is still tweaking, made from heart pine salvaged from an old mill and put together with the help of his homemade rigging — cables and pulleys strung from the branches of pine trees.
Just then, the people working in the shell of a new deli next door volunteered to string a cable from their store into the bookshop.
