At the Automat, pt. 3 

Now would be a perfect time for the automat to make another comeback. I read a few had tried to open in the 2000s but didn’t last long and shut down, I wish someone would open another one and try again, I’ve always wanted to eat at one. They’re so adorably retro.

The automat has made a comeback in Jersey City in the last couple of years. Instead of food sitting around getting dried-out or overcooked, it's made to order; your name comes up on your screen, you go to the numbered delivery box, type "open" and voila! Your boxed lunch is ready... 😊

It's not just Doris and Cary that make this movie fun. The supporting actors add So Much: Gig Young, Richard Deacon and Audrey Meadows...among others!😊❤🎉

Back when movies had wholesome plots and shenanigans were implied. Great to see Doris Day and Audrey Meadows in their primes.

Doris Day movies are not only pretty great movies, but they're full of nostalgia.

1:56 "Men take one look at you and suddenly their wives just don't understand them." 🤣 Such a great line. I love Audrey Meadows in this

Doris Day was still alive just this year, a beautiful person. These "Automat" clips are a great addition to YT, thanks!

I am too young to remember Automats but I find the concept fascinating. Heck, even cafeterias are now endangered. Fast food is cheaper, easier, crappier.....often times the way of the future. Newer isn't always better.

One of my favourite scenes in one of my favourite films. Four fantastically talented people. So much more entertaining than the drivel they turn out today

All of these "At the Automat" clips are very interesting and entertaining! Thanks so much for going to the trouble of collecting and editing and posting them!

Great compilations - yes Doris Day was a class act and looked [and acted] superbly.

I remember Horn & Hardart Automats. Our family visited NYC in 1958 and we had some quick lunch over there. Some people have told me later on bums and homeless started taking over the place, don’t know if this is true though. But they were an iconic place to grab a bite in Manhattan back then.

"It will cost you $1.12. But I could overlook your infraction if you introduce me to Doris Day."

I love that! "They don't even give her a chance to eat!"

I ate at the last Automat in NYC a few years before it closed. I'm so glad I had that opportunity. I'm glad I have the memory.

Wow, Audrey Meadows! Cool, she still looks great even in color.

Haha, Audrey Meadows was hilarious in this.

Did Doris Day just receive all that free food from Ralph Kamdens' wife?

The Automat painting is my favorite painting and I've been privileged enough to view it in person. It's in an old art museum in Iowa of all places.

Gig Young was wonderful! Such a tragic ending for an immensely talented man.

"When a girl gets to be my age, and still isn't married, you either philosophize or you get arrested". As a woman that's 50 and unmarried, I laughed.

Why, oh why, did they stop making automats? I love them!

I never got to visit an Automat.. (even tho we lived in Queens when I was a kid.. and later we lived in Philadelphia. My Dad was in the Navy and stationed there .. But ever since seeing the Automat documentary on TCM, I've been infatuated with all things H&H and the Automat. I was able to find a few pieces of Horn & Hardart tableware on eBay.. and I love seeing scenes like this one, that capture those good old days

The running gag of mistaken identity in this movie always cracks me up. I love the slap. LOL

One of the best scenes in cinematic history! 🙂

This is my favorite scene from "A Touch of Mink" ! Poor Gig Young....he's totally befuddled by being slapped by a hand coming out of an automat opening ! And then later he gets a salad thrown in his puss ! Totally hilarious ! THANKS for uploading for us to enjoy !! 🙂

My parents took me to an Automat in NYC when I was very young--unforgettable!

Bring back the Automat Diner!

Today you’d get people complaining that you were talking through that opening, breathing in the area where the food is stored.

I remember one of these in the TV series "That Girl".

Love this movie and Doris Day!

If I could go back in time, one of the things I would do is visit an automat! They look so fun and yummy 🤤

My grandmother was in this movie. She speaks at 3:39

Doris Day looked so beautiful in this movie.

I wish I lived back then.

I've seen all these movies several times and they are hilarious..

Watching it now love this movie she was so stunning 💖💖

I presume that’s a real Horn & Hardart where they filmed? Fantastic. I never saw what it looked like behind the scenes before.

That slap tho.... funny stuff lol

I don't know how I found these videos, but I'm so glad I did.

Ive watched this movie a few times in the past several months. It comes up on TCM in rotation. I like mid-century Doris Day movies. Particularly the romantic comedies. I too am obsessed with the retro charm of the automat. I was born in 1961 but don't remember an automat. They apparently were mostly a northeast thing. This movie gives a look at the front customer-facing experience and the backend kitchen operation. It was simply a delivery and presentation system. Cuts out the waiter/waitress layer. Not too much different than the modern buffet restaurants like we have here in Las Vegas. Except with the automat everything was pre-portioned, put on a plate, the behind in a window in a little cubical. And payment was per plate at point of access/delivery.

Cary Grant has amazing vision, able to see "that girl that I splashed" several stories down, through the blinds lol.

One of my favorite classics !

"Money does mot buy good manners." So true.

Ha ha ha, that slap was awesome!!!

I loved the Automat when I was a kid. Always ate the same thing: spaghetti, spinach and cocoa. I still dream about how much I enjoyed it. As an adult, I realized the food was mediocre, at best.

Such a classic flick! I really need to see it again as it's been years.

Wish we could take the best of the present (like computers, ordering online) and the best of the past (automats, the clothes, the manners) and just keep the best of both.

I lived in NYC in 60's. Horne and Hardart was my favourite place,next to Bloomingdale's and Alexander's. I wish it still existed. Was so unique. Nothing like it exists now...

Love Audrey Meadows!

Why was I so engaged in this clip from a random movie I've never heard of? 😂

"Millie, get the cleaver!" Every woman needs a Connie in her life

I remember the automat so well. I use to eat there all the time. The one on 57th st. In nyc. If I remember correctly.

The Autoslap.

Thank you for sharing.

Audrey Meadows from Jackie Gleason? Slap was outstanding!

People wanna go to the moon and mars..,I wanna go to the past ...and stay 🥸

The items becoming too expensive to take coins took down the great automats.

A Touch of mink, a good cast here. Cary Grant, Doris Day, Audrey Meadows and Gig young. The automat was before my time but they look cool. Thanks for the upload.

My Mom and stepfather showed me something about the Automatt on Netflix . Looks like a great place

Wow she really looks great for eating that much food.

Loved Doros Day she was so adorable and a beautiful soul love old movies ❤

Wish they could bring back these type places but I don't think that will happen. I bet I would had eaten at the Automats a lot if I grew up in NewYork, my parents did but I grew up in California in the 60's when the fast food places started popping up like McDonalds, Burger Chef, Jack in the Box and the early Taco Bell's.

This was a great scene with great stars, but we didn't realize it at the time.

They are bringing automat back👏👍

A chicken pot pie, a baked potato, a plate of carrots, Jello and a slice of cake for just $10 adjusted for inflation. I wish I lived back then.

I wish we still had the automat the food was delicious. I guess we will never see that again

Such a great idea!!!

Lol she gave her friend so much to eat! So this is what Marilyn is referencing in Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend...

It was fun to see these clips from that movie again. I've never been to an automat, but from the type of foods offered, it doesn't sound bad compared to fast food today. We don't DO fast food, period, and haven't done so for a long time. Too little in terms of quality ingredients and prep., plus way too much fat and salt. I don't miss it, frankly. Oh, but the homemade pot pie at an old-fashioned automat sounds rather good, doesn't it?

i have no idea why but i love this lol

What kind of Pie have Ya' got today?

Wow, imagine that. The "fast food" is being freshly prepared, healthy and wholesome. Those were the days, for sure.

The slap in the face scene is priceless!

"Jello?" 😂 Times were so much simpler then - and better!

35 cents. Boy, those were the days.

I loved the 1 on 42 St & 3rd Ave when I was just starting to work it was a good meal reasonable prices

Rip Doris Day

Bring back the Automat!!!!

I love Gig Young.

When I was a kid in the 60's there was one that we would hit when we went downtown to shop. Even as a kid I thought that they were kind of weird and I personally liked to get a good look at my food and see how it was prepared and handled at restaurants. I'd tease my mom and say that they spit on it or pick it up off the floor while hiding out of sight. That automat shut down and a smorgasbord opened up next door. That place was really good, you'd just grab what you want in plain view, pay for it at the register without the staff hiding out of sight and was faster without having to fumble for change and fiddle with gizmos. Interestingly innovative at the time and retro now but they became obsolete for a reason.

Gig Young had such a great comedic talent. So sad that he took his life.

Wow, fantastically snappy dialog. I adore snappy dialog. Who played her automat worker friend, delivering all those fantastic lines with that great timing?

I think I ate at an automat when I was very young -- no more than five or six. So it had to be about 1970. It was in Long Beach, I think. I remember being fascinated, thinking it was like the Jetsons: food from machines!

Audrey Meadows is always funny and entertaining, but she's got one of the most recognizable voices ever. I can't help hearing Alice.

I want a parody of this scene showing them passing increasingly absurd items through this small window. Four cobs of corn, an entire turkey, an eight-foot party sub, a sheet cake, etc.

I didn't realize until now but the "At the Automat" Part 2 movie "Easy Living" and this movie "Touch of Mink" both involved the Automat and young women getting an unexpected mink coat from a millionaire. Was "Touch of Mink" supposed to be a remake of "Easy Living"? Because other than those two things, they don't have that much in common plot wise.

I'll take "All You Can Eat Buffets" like Golden Corral any day. I'm a large boy.

Audrey Meadows was so funny, no man was going to boss her around. Heaven help the man who tried to!

my father and I loved them when we encountered them. the woman was very nice and showed us how to pick and use them. it was something that should come back now, with people trying to poison innocent others and how easily germs can spread

What a way to eat. Doris Day's character paid for only one item from the vending machine, but got at least 5 or 6 because she knew Audrey Meadows working behind the scenes.

Lol she was SO cute in this movie

I need to track down some Doris Day movies...

I can imagine just paying for something looking away for a moment and finding the item you paid for gone.

that's a lot of food for just lunch.

I don’t think Audrey Meadows should be giving away all that food.

"To the Moon Alice"

I thought that during the pandemic that restaurants would become like this which wouldn’t be a bad idea.

My sister in law: Yay! Salads!

I thought it was a machine passing the trays through.