Excavation for subway motion picture

"The film was photographed from a single camera position, elevated to make possible a good view of the excavation of what appears to be a large tunnel. There are cranes, horse-drawn vehicles, as well as electrical and internal combustion machines"--Early motion pictures.
H29161 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 11Mar1903; H29161.
Camera, Robert K. Bonine
Photographed on November 11, 1902 at Union Square in New York City.
Biograph production no. 2261.
Paper print shelf number (LC 0361) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
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Sources used: Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 94; Biograph production logs, v. 1, 1899-1903; AFI catalog: film beginnings, 1893-1910, p. 732.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.