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Philadelphia Statler Hotel Dining Room & Kitchen 221684-03 | Footage Farm

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Channel: footagefarm · 2013 · Film & Animation

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[1916 - Philadelphia Statler Hotel Dining Room & Kitchen; Street Scenes]
MCU Guests seated in hotel dining room.  CU Menu:  The Hotel Statler A La Carte, opened to show menu listing food.  Water poured, orders taken.  Waiters & servers refilling glasses.
02:33:59  Kitchen chefs & serving line w/ trays picked up, returned.  General activity.
02:34:56  Kitchen helper into tiled room w/ large pile of chickens, adds more.
02:35:12  Cook preparing sandwiches & ??  CUs, removing crusts & putting on silver tray or plate.
02:36:26  Chef & assistants pose.  Woman on serving line preparing side dishes & show to camera.
02:37:12  Deserts & pastries displayed.
02:38:06  Woman garnishing plates on serving counter, cooks behind.
02:38:31  Bake ovens & baking rolls, scooping out into boxes.  CUs.
02:39:26  Butcher & meat; beef steaks, poultry.  Cutting up roasted chickens.
02:39:58  Large mixer, dumping milk & whipping cream w/ automatic beater.  Man drawing off ??
02:40:36  Ice carving a bowl & filling w/ small sugar (?) chickens by dessert chef.
02:41:08  Waiters w/ trays checking orders w/ cashiers.
02:41:25  Man putting dishes in dish washer; others washing by hand.  Trays out of dishwasher.
02:41:55  Men at business dinner w/ wine glasses, etc eating, talking & toasting.
02:42:35  Exterior of Philadelphia's Chestnut Street looking west from 11th Street & large buildings, cars, wagon, pedestrians.  Tilt up Statler Hotel (?).  Large municipal building / city hall (?), people crossing streets.  Independence Hall, US flag & statue of George Washington.
02:43:32  Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, slow tilt up ornate facade; entrance w/ doormen, cars arriving.
02:44:06  Schuylkill River w/ dam & waterworks (?).  Monument of George Washington on horseback at Green Street entrance to Fairmount Park.
02:44:47  Marguerite Tower & old Fairmount Water Works "...now converted into an Aquarium."  Pan across to river.  Seals in zoo being fed.  
02:46:06  Ornate stone carving on exterior of University of Pennsylvania (?) w/ traffic & pedestrians.  Pigeon feeding by old man in City Hall Plaza
02:46:51  Metropolitan Opera House w/ large John McCormick poster.
02:46:59  Broad Street & policeman at crosswalk & cars parked in middle between lanes of traffic.
02:47:24  CU African-American / Black boy hungrily eating  from bone - racist.
1910s Promotional Film; Advertising; Industrial Cooking; Sight-seeing; Oddities; Americana; Economic Tourism; Food Preparation; Cooks; Chefs;

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