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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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;