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Early Motion Pictures, 1897-1920
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SUMMARY
The subject of this Postal Department documentary is "snatching" the mail bag from the suspended post by the railroad mail clerk. As the film begins, a man climbs the steps leading to the device that suspends the mail bag in the air. A train can be seen in the distance approcaching the mail bag. At the end of the film, the mail bag is just being snatched from the suspension device.
NOTES
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Company; 01Oct03; H36399.
Cameraman, A. E. Weed.
Cameraman credit from Niver's, Early motion pictures, p. 332.
Filmed September 21, 1903 in St. Georges, MD.
Source used: Niver, Kemp R., Early motion pictures, 1985.
Received: 2/2000 from LC lab; ref prints and dupe neg; preservation; Paper Print Collection.
SUBJECTS
Railway mail service.
Actuality--Shorts.
RELATED NAMES
Weed, A. E., camera.
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
MEDIUM
1 reel of 1 (25 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. ref print.
1 reel of 1 (90 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. ref print.
1 reel of 1 (25 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. dupe neg.
CALL NUMBER
FLA 3583 (ref print)
FEC 1884 (ref print)
FRA 0857 (dupe neg)
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID
awal 0571 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/awal.0571
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