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Early Motion Pictures, 1897-1920
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OTHER TITLES
Variant title in C. Musser: Scene in a seminary
CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : Edison Manufacturing Co., 1897.
SUMMARY
From Maguire & Baucus catalogue: A most amusing and life-like scene, in which a number of young ladies clad in their night robes, are seen engaged in a midnight frolic.
From Edison films catalog: A number of young ladies, in their night robes, are having a frolic, and are interrupted by a teacher. One girl makes herself very conspicuous by crawling under a bed. 50 foot strip (the finish). $7.50.
NOTES
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 21Apr1897; 24883.
Camera, William Heise.
Duration: 0:27 at 30 fps.
Filmed ca. mid-March to mid-April 1897, in Edison's Black Maria studio.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Musser, C. Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, 1997, p. 289; Maguire & Baucus. Fall catalogue 1897, p. 10; Edison films catalog, no. 105, July 1901, p. 69.
SUBJECTS
Girls--United States--Social life and customs--Drama.
Students--United States--Conduct of life--Drama.
Smoking--United States--Drama.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages--United States--Drama.
Amusements--United States--Drama.
School discipline--United States--Drama.
School principals--United States--Drama.
Cigarettes--United States.
Pillows--United States.
Nightgowns--United States.
Beds--United States.
Comedy
RELATED NAMES
White, James H. (James Henry), production.
Heise, William, camera.
Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
AFI/Holt (H.L.) Collection (Library of Congress)
MEDIUM
1 reel of 1 (ca. 50 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. ref print.
CALL NUMBER
FEA 8708 (ref print)
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D. C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID
edmp 4054 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/edmp.4054
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