Excavating for a New York foundation /

The scene is an excavation pit at an unidentified New York City construction site. A crew of six men can be seen shoveling dirt into a four-wheeled wooden cart. Then a full cart is slowly lifted out of the pit to street level by a steam-powered crane. These carts are similar in design to those shown dumping rubble at the end of the film New York City Dumping Wharf. Advertisements and campaign posters can be seen on the exposed wall of the building in the background.
H38561 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 25Nov1903; H38561.
Camera, A.E. Weed.
Duration: 2:28 at 15 fps.
Filmed on November 6, 1903 on Broadway and 26th Street. in New York, N.Y.
Biograph production no. 2684.
Paper print shelf number (LC 2015) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
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Sources used: Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 94; AFI catalog: film beginnings, 1893-1910, p. 598; Biograph production log, v. 2, p. 20-21; Biograph photo catalog, vol. 6, No.'s 2583-3007, viewed online, August 1, 2016, via the New Jersey Digital Highway.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
35 mm dupe neg pic renumbered: FPE 5553 to FZA 2337.