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Film, Video Foxy Grandpa and Polly in a little hilarity Shooting title in Biograph Co. prod. records [MI]: Grandpa & Polly in a little hilarity (dance)

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Title

  • Foxy Grandpa and Polly in a little hilarity

Other Title

  • Shooting title in Biograph Co. prod. records [MI]: Grandpa & Polly in a little hilarity (dance)

Summary

  • Opens on a stage with a stone fence and a painted backdrop of a forest or garden. Husband and wife team of Hart and DeMar as cartoon characters Foxy Grandpa and Polly enter hand-in-hand from behind the fence. Grandpa has a bald pate with bushy white hair on the sides, a big bulbous nose, and a potbelly, dressed in a light-colored suit with a vest and spats and carrying a bowler in his left hand. Polly wears a ruffled, light-colored dress with dark trim that goes to her ankles, a bedecked bonnet, white stockings, heeled shoes, and a choker around her neck. Both are smiling broadly as they reach center stage and begin their vaudeville-style dance, with tap, soft shoe, and other synchronized leg movements and twirls in what appears to be a ragtime rhythm.

Names

  • Hart, Joseph, 1861-1921, cast
  • DeMar, Carrie, cast
  • Bonine, R. (Robert K.), camera
  • Brady, William A., 1863-1950
  • Bunny, 1866-1939
  • American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
  • Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • United States : American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1902.

Headings

  • -  Foxy Grandpa--(Fictitious character)
  • -  Polly--(Fictitious character)
  • -  Tap dancing

Genre

  • Comedy films
  • Filmed vaudeville acts
  • Silent films
  • Short films
  • Nonfiction films

Notes

  • -  H18034 U.S. Copyright Office
  • -  Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 23May1902; H18034.
  • -  Original main title lacking.
  • -  Duration: 0:30 at 16 fps.
  • -  Paper print shelf number (LC 1342) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
  • -  Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
  • -  Biograph production no. 2146.
  • -  Based on the musical Foxy Grandpa by William A. Brady, which was based on the comic strip by Carl E. "Bunny" Schultz.
  • -  Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 111; AFI cat.: film beginnings, 1893-1910; American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalogue, Nov. 1902 [MI], p. 63; Biograph bulletins 1896-1908, 1971, p. 75-76; Musser, C. The emergence of cinema, p. 308.
  • -  Camera, Robert K. Bonine.
  • -  Joseph J. Hart (Foxy Grandpa), Carrie DeMar (Polly).
  • -  Filmed May 17, 1902, in the Biograph New York City studio.
  • -  Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.

Medium

  • viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (12 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
  • viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 30 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.
  • dupe neg pic 1 film reel of 1 (12 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
  • dupe neg pic 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 30 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.
  • master pos pic 1 film reel of 1 (12 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
  • paper pos 1 roll of 1 (ca. 30 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.
  • paper pos (copy 2) 1 roll of 1 (ca. 30 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • FLA 4356 (viewing print)
  • FEC 1473 (viewing print)
  • FRA 1497 (dupe neg pic)
  • FPE 7556 (dupe neg pic)
  • FRB 1954 (master pos pic)
  • Box 0020J (paper pos)
  • Box 5031J (paper pos, copy 2)

Repository

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

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 96520413

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Chicago citation style:

Hart, Joseph, Cast, Carrie Demar, R Bonine, William A Brady, Bunny, American Mutoscope And Biograph Company, and Paper Print Collection. Foxy Grandpa and Polly in a little hilarity. United States: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1902. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/96520413/.

APA citation style:

Hart, J., Demar, C., Bonine, R., Brady, W. A., Bunny, American Mutoscope And Biograph Company & Paper Print Collection. (1902) Foxy Grandpa and Polly in a little hilarity. United States: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/96520413/.

MLA citation style:

Hart, Joseph, Cast, et al. Foxy Grandpa and Polly in a little hilarity. United States: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1902. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/96520413/>.