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Interior N.Y. subway, 14th St. to 42nd St / American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

Other author/creatorBitzer, G. W., 1872-1944 camera operator.
Other author/creatorAmerican Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Format Electronic and Video (Streaming)
Publication InfoUnited States : American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1905.
Description1 online resource (6 min.).
Supplemental Content https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?AHIV;782512
Subject(s)
Variant title Interior New York subway, Fourteenth Street to Forty-second Street
Series New York at the turn of the century
Abstract The camera platform was on the front of a New York subway train following another train on the same track. Lighting is provided by a specially constructed work car on a parallel track. At the time of filming, the subway was only seven months old, having opened on October 27, 1904. The ride begins at 14th Street (Union Square) following the route of today's east side IRT, and ends at the old Grand Central Station, built by Cornelius Vanderbuilt in 1869. The Grand Central Station in use today was not completed until 1913.
General noteCopyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 5June1905; H61570.
General noteOriginal duration: 3:37 (part 1) and 2:41 (part 2) at 15 fps.
General notePreviously published as DVD.

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