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Interior N.Y. subway, 14th St. to 42nd St.
Interior New York subway, Fourteenth Street to Forty-second Street | Interborough Subway 8 from 14th St. to 42nd St. | Interborough subway from 14th St. to 42nd St. | New York subway | In the N.Y. subway | Interboro subway 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...
Contributor: Bitzer, G. W. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress)
Selections from the National Film Registry
The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898 to 1906
National Screening Room 1
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division 1
Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) 1
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company 1
Bitzer, G. W. 1
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) 1
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Subway Tunnels 1
Actualities (Motion Pictures) 1
Grand Central Station (New York, N.Y.) 1
Nonfiction Films 1
Short Films 1
Silent Films 1
New York (State) 1
Subway Stations 1
The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906 - For Teachers
Motion Picture and Television Reading Room
Collections with Film and Video