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Film, Video A morning bath

Digital viewing copy

About this Item

Title

  • A morning bath

Summary

  • An African American mother is shown giving her struggling child a bath. She thrusts him, kicking and struggling, into a tub of foaming suds.

Names

  • White, James H. (James Henry), production
  • Heise, William, camera
  • Thomas A. Edison, Inc
  • Hendricks (Gordon) Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • United States : Edison Manufacturing Co., 1896.

Headings

  • -  Mother and child--Humor
  • -  Infants--Bathing--Humor
  • -  African American children--Humor
  • -  African American mothers--Humor

Genre

  • Comedy films
  • Peep shows (Motion pictures)
  • Silent films
  • Short films
  • Nonfiction films

Notes

  • -  60142 U.S. Copyright Office
  • -  Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 31Oct1896; 60142.
  • -  Duration: 0:22 at 30 fps.
  • -  Summary from Maguire & Baucus catalogues and from Edison films catalog.
  • -  Sources used: Musser, C. Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, p. 250; Maguire & Baucus. Edison films, supp. catalogue, Jan. 20, 1897, p. 4 [MI]; Maguire & Baucus. Edison and international photographic films catalogue, April 1897, p. 12 [MI]; Edison films catalog, no. 105, July 1901, p. 69 [MI].
  • -  Camera, William Heise.
  • -  Filmed in October 1896, in Edison's Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
  • -  35 mm viewing print renumbered: FEC 8079 to FYA 1149.

Medium

  • viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 40 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • FYA 1149 (viewing print)

Repository

  • Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D. C. 20540 USA dcu

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 00694249

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Chicago citation style:

Heise, William, Camera, Inc Thomas A. Edison, and Hendricks. A Morning Bath. produceds by White, James H. Uction United States: Edison Manufacturing Co, 1896. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/00694249/.

APA citation style:

Heise, W., Thomas A. Edison, I. & Hendricks. (1896) A Morning Bath. White, J. H. U., prod United States: Edison Manufacturing Co. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/00694249/.

MLA citation style:

Heise, William, Camera, Inc Thomas A. Edison, and Hendricks. A Morning Bath. prod by White, James H. Uction United States: Edison Manufacturing Co, 1896. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/00694249/>.