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Automat, The [Played May 25 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups and available on various VOD platforms.] Lisa Hurwitz's award-winning, fascinating, educational, memories-filled, moving, 79-minute, 2021 documentary that pays homage to the Automat and details the opening in 1902 of the first Horn and Hardart's automated vending machine restaurant, which was invented by John Fritsche, in Philadelphia where patrons put nickels in slots to retrieve fresh, seasonal, delicious food and terrific coffee and later expanded the popular concept in the Big Apple with the last restaurant closing in 1991 and consists of archival film and television clips and commentary by director and actor Mel Brooks, engineering vice president John W. Ramos, Starbucks executive chairman Howard Schultz, comedian Carl Reiner, art director Ron Barrett, architectural dealer Steve Stollman, former Philadelphia mayor Wilson Goode, 2002 The Automat: The History, Recipes, and Allure of Horn & Hardart's Masterpiece coauthors Lorraine Diehl and Marianne Hardart, actor Elliott Gould, automat historians Alec Shuldiner and Lisa Keller, H&H busboy Apache Ramos, former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, H&H architect Roy Rosenbaum, John Ramos' son Bill Romas, Edwin Daly Sr.'s son Edward Daly Jr., and Frank Hardart's great grandson Paul Hardart.
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