2 A. M. in the Subway (1905)

Original title

2 A.M. in the Subway

Directed by

Billy Bitzer

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1 min

Rating

4.5 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A man and a woman flirt and interact in a New York subway car late at night. The short comedy shows a snapshot of city nightlife from the early 1900s.

shortcomedicplayfulslightly risquélightheartedstagedcity nightlifeold-fashioned

What happens

2 A. M. in the Subway is a one shot, 53 second-long comedy filmed, and probably directed, by Billy Bitzer on June 5, 1905 at the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company's (AM&B) studio on 14th Street in New York City. Likely intended as a slightly racy, and therefore rather typical, subject for AM&B's peepshow machine, The Mutoscope, 2 A. M. in the Subway is a vignette of New York City's night life that still resonates with New Yorkers more than a century later. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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