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

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Bitzer, G. W., 1872-1944, camera.
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Subway tunnels--New York (State)--New York.
Subway tunnels.
Subway stations--New York (State)--New York.
Subway stations.
Interborough Rapid Transit Company.
Grand Central Station (New York, N.Y. : 1900-1910).
New York (State)--New York.
Genre:
Video recordings.
Motion pictures.
Physical Description:
1 streaming video file
Other Title:
Interior New York subway, Fourteenth Street to Forty-second Street
Title from Biograph production log: Interborough Subway 8 from 14th St. to 42nd St.
Variant title from Biograph production log: Interborough subway from 14th St. to 42nd St.
Variant title from the Internet movie database: New York subway
Variant title from the Internet movie database: In the N.Y. subway
Variant title from the Internet movie database: Interboro subway
Selections from the National Film Registry.
Place of Publication:
United States : American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1905.
Summary:
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.
Credits:
Camera, G.W. "Billy" Bitzer.
Notes:
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 5June1905; H61570.
Duration: 6:14 at 15 fps.
Photographed May 21, 1905. Location: Interborough Subway, 14 St. to 42nd St., New York, N.Y.
Biograph production no. 3031.
Paper print shelf number (LC 2057) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
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