In celebration of the New York Transit Museum’s 50th Anniversary, the Film Forum is hosting a NYC In Transit series, featuring some of transit’s most notable roles on screen. Check out the lineup of iconic films where buses, elevated trains, and subway cars take center stage.
New York Transit Museum Members can purchase up to two tickets per transaction for Film Forum’s NYC in Transit series screenings at a discounted price of $14 by presenting their Transit Museum membership card to their box office or booking online with promo code (for details, see July 21 member email).
U.S., 1928
Directed by Ted Wilde
Starring Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff
Approx. 85 min. 35mm.
Live piano accompaniment by Steve Sterner
Jazz Age Idols meet, as baseball-crazed soda jerk/cabbie Harold Lloyd and passenger Babe Ruth hurtle to old Yankee Stadium. Extensive NYC location work is highlighted during a frenzied finale, as Harold races Gotham’s last horse-drawn trolley right through Washington Square Arch!
35mm print courtesy Harold Lloyd Trust.
With
In the Footsteps of Speedy (2015, Bruce Goldstein, approx. 30 min.)
In this acclaimed 30-minute documentary, Bruce Goldstein, Film Forum’s Founding Repertory Artistic Director, takes us on a tour of the NYC locations captured by Lloyd and his Hollywood crew for Speedy—many of them only steps away from Film Forum (along with vivid scenes shot in Coney Island, Midtown, Sutton Place, Yankee Stadium, etc.). Edited and photographed by William Hohauser.
