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New York
New York
	Contemporary advertisement
Directed by	George Fitzmaurice
Written by	Ouida Bergère
Based on	New York; by William J. Hurlbut
Produced by	A. H. Woods; George Fitzmaurice
Starring	Florence Reed
Cinematography	Arthur C. Miller
Production; companies	Pathé Exchange; Astra Film Company
Distributed by	Pathé Exchange
Release date	February 4, 1916;
Running time	50 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

New York is a 1916 American silent comedy drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Florence Reed. It was adapted by Ouida Bergère from a 1910 William J. Hurlbut play of the same title. The film was distributed by the Pathé Exchange company.^[1]^[2]

Plot

Cast

Florence Reed as Nora Nelson, later Mrs. King
Fania Marinoff as Edna Macey, The Chorus Girl
John Miltern as Oliver King
Jessie Ralph as Mrs. Macey
Forrest Winant as Wendell King

Censorship

Like many American films of this time period, New York was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, in 1918 the Chicago Board of Censors issued an Adults Only permit for the film and required a cut, in Reel 2, of the two intertitles "Edna enjoys the luxuries that King provides her" and "And thus Oliver King becomes a benedict", and, Reel 3, two views of a nude model.^[3] The Ohio Board of Censors required a cut of a scene with a woman smoking, scene at table where a young woman lies back in man's arms while she smokes a cigarette, a cut to three feet of film a scene of young woman dancing on a table, to five feet of film of scene where drunken woman smokes a cigarette, remove the intertitles "You bet I'll come to your party. This virtuous life is hell", "You can't leave me now when I am about to be a mother", "You're only my guardian, you know, and I'll do as I d----d please", and "God! How beautiful you are tonight. What a fool you were to marry a man as old as King.", and also cut out all scenes of woman posing in the nude, the murder, and scene in cabaret where man at table catches girl by her foot as she dances by him.^[4]

Preservation

With no prints of New York located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.^[5] In February 2021, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.^[2]

References

^ "Progressive Silent Film List: New York". Silentera.com. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
^ ^a ^b "New York". afi.com. Retrieved April 7, 2024.
^ "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 7 (22). New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company: 28. November 23, 1918.
^ Platz, Paul Alwyn (4 March 1916). "New Laws And Court Decisions: Ohio Censor Scissors Snip Without Rhyme or Reason". Motion Picture News. 13 (9). New York City: Exhibitor's Times, Inc.: 1304. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
^ "American Silent Feature Film Database: New York". Library of Congress. Retrieved April 7, 2024.