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Film, VideoMr. Jack in the dressing room
Shooting title in Biograph production logs: Mr. Jack visits the dressing room | Mister Jack in the dressing room Opens on a stage set of the interior of a theatrical dressing room. Along a bar that serves as a dressing table sit three costumed young women adjusting their hair and makeup in three mirrors hanging from the wall. Two of the women wear very short outfits that show their stockinged legs; the third woman is dressed in a ruffled dress to the knee....- Contributor: Weed, A. E. - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoLevi & Cohen, the Irish comedians
Levi and Cohen, the Irish comedians Opens on a vaudeville or variety stage with a flat painted curtain of a stone fence and garden. On the right side of the stage sits a sign that reads "Zuzu Daffy, Singing Soubret." A boy in an usher's uniform crosses the stage and replaces the sign with one that reads "Levi and Cohen, Irish Comedians." The boy exits, and the curtain rises to...- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1903
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Film, VideoHow Tommy got a pull on his Grandpa
Copyrighted as: As in a looking glass | As in a looking glass "This is a companion picture to "Tommy's Ringing Good Joke." Tommy ties a cord to his Grandfather's chair and fastens it to a bureau in the next room. The maid attempts to open the drawer and upsets the old gentleman, with disastrous results"--Biograph bulletins, 1896-1908, p. 86.- Contributor: Armitage, F. S. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1903
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Film, Video2 A. M. in the subway
Two A. M. in the subway Opens on a set of a subway platform, with two tracks on either side and stairs leading up to the exit. A policeman stretches wearily and sits on a box, as a uniformed conductor awaits a train. A subway car arrives on the left track and a well-dressed man exits with his arms around two well-dressed women. They laugh and stumble, having a hilarious...- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1905
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Film, VideoA wake in "Hell's Kitchen" "This scene is laid in the parlor of a New York tenement. Two watchers at the wake are smoking and drinking, while the widow is weeping over the coffin. The attention of the three is attracted for an instant, and the supposed corpse rises up, drinks all the beer in the pitcher which is standing on a table nearby, and lies down in the...- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Marvin, Arthur W.
- Date: 1903
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Film, VideoKiss me Opens on a stage set of a street with a sidewalk and a high fence completely covered with female burlesque troupe posters. The four posters visible advertise actual contemporary burlesquers Fred Irwin's Majestics, Rose Sydell (of her London Belles), Phil Sheridan's New City Sports (with the tag line "Ain't we three birds"), and the Rentz-Santley Co. One of the center posters--that for Rose Sydell--features...- Contributor: Weed, A. E. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoFrom show girl to burlesque queen
Shooting title in Biograph production log: Dressing room scene, from show girl to burlesque queen | From showgirl to burlesque queen Opens on a dressing room set with a mirror, dressing table, and chair center stage and a folded dressing screen on the left. A smiling, dark-haired woman enters through the door on stage right, unbuttoning a full-length polka-dot costume. As she undresses, she frequently looks directly at the camera and smiles. She removes her sash or cummerbund, the top with its trailing sleeves, and...- Contributor: Weed, A. E. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1903
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Film, VideoThe sculptor's nightmare At a political club, the members debate whose bust will replace that of Theodore Roosevelt. Unable to agree, each goes to a sculptor's studio and bribes him to sculpt a bust of the individual favorite. Instead, the sculptor spends their fees on a dinner with his model during which he becomes so inebriated that he is taken to jail. There he has a nightmare,...- Contributor: Bitzer, G. W. - O'Sullivan, Tony - Griffith, D. W. (David Wark) - Solter, Harry L. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Sennett, Mack - Dillon, Edward - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - McCutcheon, Wallace
- Date: 1908
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Film, VideoThe lost child
Former title: Unidentified Masson | Inventory title: Masson reel no. 6 A woman brings a small boy into the backyard of a house in the suburbs. She puts him on the ground to play and returns later to find him missing. Unaware that the baby has crawled into the dog house, she admonishes a man who is putting something into a good-sized basket. He becomes frightened and begins to run. She thinks he has the...- Contributor: Bitzer, G. W. - McCutcheon, Wallace - Osterman, Kathryn - Afi/Masson (Daniel J.) Collection (Library of Congress) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoThe boys think they have one on Foxy Grandpa, but he fools them
Title in Biograph photo catalog, v. 5 [MI]: Foxy Grandpa plays banjo as well as he dances | Shooting title in Biograph Co. prod. records [MI]: Boys think they have one on Grandpa Opens on a stage with a stone fence and a painted backdrop of a forest or garden. In front of the fence is a bench, on which sits Joseph Hart as the cartoon character of Foxy Grandpa, reading a newspaper or magazine. He sports a bald pate with white bushy hair on the sides, a large bulbous nose, and a potbelly, and wears spats...- Contributor: Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Hart, Joseph - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bunny - Bonine, R. (Robert K.)
- Date: 1902
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Film, VideoChimmie Hicks at the races
Title from American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalogue: Above the limit | Title from Biograph production log: Jimmy Hicks at the races On a bare stage backed by a dark curtain, a man dressed in a three-piece suit and overcoat holds a racing program and excitedly watches a race supposedly taking place offstage. With enthusiastic jumping and other delighted pantomime, he makes it clear his horse has won the race. A second man in a suit and hat enters from stage right and pays Chimmie his...- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Armitage, F. S. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Grapewin, Charles - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Film, VideoStealing a dinner
Title in Biograph production log: Stealing a dinner by dogs A man sits at the dinner table, with a row of dogs behind him and a black dog sitting near the table in the foreground. When the master rings a bell for service, a dog enters on her hind legs dressed in a servant's cap and apron. As she hops toward the table, however, a cat jumps upon the surface. The master tosses the...- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Arniotis, Leonidas - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1903
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Film, VideoA touching pleading
Emouvant plaidoirie | Special effects reel A lawyer, pleading by the side of his client, bursts into tears with emotion and embraces the sobbing prisoner, who, while in this position, neatly steals the lawyer's watch and chain.- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Pathé Frères (France) - S. Lubin (Firm : Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date: 1906-01-01
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Film, VideoThe chimney sweep and the miller
Title from Biograph production log: Good scrap the sweep & miller | Variant title from Biograph production log: Sweep & miller Opens on a stage with a painted backdrop of a lake and forest. From opposite sides of the stage enter a chimney sweep, covered from head to toe with black soot and carrying a folding broom and black sack, and a miller, dressed completely in white and carrying a white sack. The two men bump into each other center stage, with some of the...- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Marvin, Arthur W.
- Date: 1902
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Film, VideoA frontier flirtation
Title from Biograph bulletins, 1896-1908: Frontier flirtation, or, How the tenderfoot won out | How the tenderfoot won out Opens on a stage with a painted backdrop of a forest or garden. On a park bench center stage sits a well-dressed woman with a dark veil obscuring her face, holding an open parasol overhead and a closed fan in her lap. A mustached cowboy enters, dressed in fringed chaps, boots, Western hat, neck kerchief, and pistol belt. When he spies the woman, he...- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1903
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Film, VideoAlphonse and Gaston, no. 3
Copyright title: Alphonse and Gaston 3 | Title in Biograph production logs: Alphonse & Gaston | Title in Biograph bulletins, 1896-1908: Alphonse and Gaston take a dancing lesson Opens on a set of a saloon or tavern with a long bar and pictures on the wall that include boxers, a ballerina, and a reclining female. At the end of the bar stands the bartender, reading a newspaper. Two men dressed as the clownish characters of Alphonse and Gaston enter the bar. Both have dark, bushy hair and beards and wear hats, with...- Contributor: Weed, A. E. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1903
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Film, VideoA gesture fight in Hester Street
Title fom Biograph production log: Gesture fight Opens on a street scene with a sidewalk and backdrop of storefronts. A bearded, dark-haired street peddler in a long dark coat and hat hawks his goods. A young woman in a long skirt walks past, and the peddler turns to gesture angrily after her. Behind him enters another bearded peddler. His cart bumps the first peddler, who turns and argues with the interloper....- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Marvin, Arthur W.
- Date: 1900
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Film, VideoHappy Hooligan
Variant title from Biograph bulletins 1896-1908: Happy Hooligan interferes Opens on a stage set of a house exterior, complete with a door, window, and ivy on the walls. In front of the house, an organ-grinder plays as Happy Hooligan listens and claps along merrily. The Hooligan character is dressed as a tramp in a ragged and torn suit, and sports a bald pate with an incredibly tiny hat perched atop it. A middle-aged...- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1903
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Film, VideoPity the blind, no. 2 Filmed version of a popular vaudeville gag, as if from the audience of a variety theater. A boy, holding a sign under his arm, leads a man onto a stage with a painted backdrop of a city street corner. With his dark glasses and cane, the man is apparently blind. He kneels down slightly left of center stage and lays down his hat and...- Contributor: Weed, A. E. - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904