How They Do Things on the Bowery
How They Do Things on the Bowery
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How They Do Things on the Bowery

How They Do Things on the Bowery

1902
Drama
Short Film
2m
Scene Bowery. Young woman drops her handkerchief while passing a Rube. He picks it up and gives it to her. She induces him to go into a side door of a saloon. Second scene, saloon. Rube and woman enter, take seats at table and order drinks. While the Rube is paying for same, woman puts knock-out drops in the Rube's glass. They drink and the Rube falls asleep. Woman takes all his valuables and leaves. Waiter wakes him up. He discovers his watch gone, fights with waiter, and is thrown out. (imdb)

How They Do Things on the Bowery

1902
Drama
Short Film
2m
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Avg Percentile 36.11% from 12 total ratings

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Rated 30 Aug 2017
52
38th
The ending made it worth watching.
Rated 25 Mar 2014
25
27th
One of Porter's earliest goes at a continuous narrative using multiple shots. The story of a country bumpkin getting drugged, rolled, and arrested isn't much to watch, but even a structure as simple as "man is invited into bar; man has drink and is robbed; man is kicked out of bar into waiting police wagon" with a straight cut to a separate shot for each part was an innovative use of continuity editing at the time.

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