The views of late 19th - and early 20th-century New York are not the least of the fascinations of '' The Invention of the Movies '' : here , in '' The Kleptomaniac '' ( 1904 ) , is a well-dressed woman arriving by horse and carriage at the first Macy 's department store at Sixth Avenue and 14th Street ; a pair of tourists bustles through Manhattan -LRB- including a sleepy Times Square and a bustling Columbus Circle -RRB- in the 1910 '' New York of Today , '' a film made for export to European exhibitors .