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Cripple Creek barroom scene
CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : Edison Manufacturing Co., 1899.
SUMMARY
From Edison films catalog: Shows tap room of the "Miners Arms," stout lady at the bar, and three men playing stud horse. Old toper with a silk hat asleep by the stove. Rough miner enters, bar maid serves him with Red Eye Whiskey and he proceeds to clean out the place. Barmaid takes a hand with a siphon of vichy, and bounces the intruder, with the help of the card players, who line up before the bar and take copious drinks on the house. 45 feet. $6.75.
NOTES
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 10May1899; 31770.
Duration: 0:46 at 16 fps.
Filmed ca. March to mid-April 1899, in Edison's Black Maria studio.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Musser, C. Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, 1997, p. 497; Niver, K.R. Early motion pictures, 1985; Edison films catalog, no. 94, March 1900, p. 35 [MI]; Edison films catalog, no. 105, July 1901, p. 70 [MI].
SUBJECTS
Bars (Drinking establishments)--Drama.
Gold miners--Colorado--Cripple Creek--Drama.
Bartenders--Colorado--Cripple Creek--Drama.
Card players--Colorado--Cripple Creek--Drama.
Affray--Colorado--Cripple Creek--Drama.
Poker--Drama.
Whiskey--Drama.
Alcoholics--Colorado--Cripple Creek--Drama.
Cripple Creek (Colo.)--Drama.
Comedy
RELATED NAMES
White, James H. (James Henry), production.
Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
MEDIUM
1 reel of 1 (ca. 50 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. ref print.
1 roll of 1 (ca. 50 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. paper pos.
CALL NUMBER
FEC 2826 (ref print)
LC 1173 (paper pos)
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D. C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID
edmp 1173 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/edmp.1173
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