When you get bored, skip ahead to about the 5:00 mark…
Via Andrew Sullivan.

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December 12, 2008 at 8:00 pm
by Martin H. Duke
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Wow I loved the tophats! Gosh how I wish I could go back to the days when everybody dressed to impress whenever they left home.
Watched it 4 times in a row
Had a life.
Oh, I have a life, this was just a good diversion from too many holiday parties and not enough “stare blankly, drooling” time.
The video is from 1905~!
Yep, that’s what I learned in the first second of it.
The NYC subway’s first line was opened less than a year before that film on October 27, 1904.