What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City (1901)

Original title

What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City

Genre

documentary film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

2 min

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 60 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man and a woman walk on a New York City sidewalk. A gust of wind from a subway grate lifts the woman's skirt and reveals her undergarments.

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What happens

What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City is a 1901 American short film starring A. C. Abadie and Florence Georgie in which a woman's undergarments are accidentally exposed. A similar 1901 film, Soubrette's Troubles on a Fifth Avenue Stage, also starred Abadie and Georgie. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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