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Automat Gourmets

Automat Gourmets
Clip: 425638_1_1
Year Shot: 1967 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1756
Original Film: 040-008-05
HD: N/A
Location: New York, New York
Timecode: 00:53:34 - 00:54:23

The Centrarie del la Chains des Restaurants, one of the oldest gourmet societies in the world, hold a gala dinner at the New York Automat. The reason- to prove that food, not atmosphere, is the important thing. On the menu: Oysters, caviar, filet of beef, and quail. Woman and a man walking out of a turn-style door in a building. The woman is greeted by another woman and hands are shaken. A small crowd of people members of a gourmet society. A food automat has pies, sandwiches and cakes. CU Betsy Palmer smiling. CU A coat of arms; "Chaine Des Rotisseurs". People in a line with plates, a tub full of oysters. CU Man and a woman putting food on their plates. CU Beverages and bottles of wine. People enjoying their meal at beautifully set tables. Table 9 shows people eating and drinking by candlelight.