Foxy Grandpa and Polly in a little hilarity / American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

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Foxy Grandpa and Polly in a little hilarity / American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1902.

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.

NOTES
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 23May1902; H18034.

Original main title lacking.

Camera, Robert K. Bonine.

Joseph J. Hart (Foxy Grandpa), Carrie DeMar (Polly).

Duration: 0:30 at 16 fps.

Materials listed originate from the paper print chosen best copy of two for digitization; for other holdings on this title, see the M/B/RS Paper Print database.

Catalog no. 2146; code name (for telegraphic orders) Garatorum.

NCN046315; Foxy Grandpa and Polly in a little hilarity.

Based on the musical Foxy Grandpa by William A. Brady, which was based on the comic strip by Carl E. "Bunny" Schultz.

Filmed May 17, 1902, in the Biograph New York City studio.

Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Niver, K.R. Early motion pictures, 1985; AFI cat.: film beginnings, 1893-1910, 1995; Biograph picture catalogue, Nov. 1902 [MI], p. 63; Biograph bulletins 1896-1908, 1971, p. 75-76; Musser, C. The emergence of cinema, 1990, p. 308.

Received: 12/14/94 from LC film lab; arch pos; preservation; Paper Print Collection.

Received: 11/23/94 from LC film lab; arch neg; preservation; Paper Print Collection.

Received: 1/10/95 from LC film lab; masterpos; preservation; Paper Print Collection.

Received: 5/23/02; paper pos; copyright deposit; Paper Print Collection.

SUBJECTS
Dance--United States.
Vaudeville--United States.
Foxy Grandpa (Fictitious character)--Drama.
Polly (Fictitious character)--Drama.
Silent films.
Dance.
Vaudeville.
Shorts.

RELATED TITLES
Foxy Grandpa series

MEDIUM
1 reel of 1 (30 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. arch pos.
1 reel of 1 (30 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. arch neg.
1 reel of 1 (30 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. masterpos.
1 roll (30 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. paper pos.

CALL NUMBER
FPE 7557 (arch pos)
FPE 7555 (arch neg)
FPE 7558 (masterpos)
LC 1342a (paper pos)

DIGITAL ID
(m) varsmp 1342

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