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Comedy cake walk [motion picture]
- Title
- Comedy cake walk [motion picture]
- Published/Created
- 1903
- Type of Material
- moving image
- Place of Publication/Creation
- United States
- Publisher
- American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
- Language
- English
- Form
- motion picture
- Physical Description
- 1 reel of 1 (27 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. arch pos.
- 1 reel of 1 (27 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. arch neg.
- 1 reel of 1 (27 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. masterpos.
- 1 roll (24 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. paper pos.
- Notes
- Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 11May1903; H31675.
- Original main title lacking.
- K.R. Niver credits the Americus Quartet as performers and F.S. Armitage as cameraman, in a Philadelphia shoot on 9/18/1900, as he did with the film Cake walk. This film and Cake walk feature the same five dancers, rather than a quartet, and have nothing to do with the films shot on the date above, nos. 1642 and 1643, which show a group of children at play. The film being described here is instead no. 234.
- Duration: 0:27 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. 234; code name (for telegraphic orders) Multesimo.
- NCN046290; Comedy cake walk.
- Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1012; Niver, K.R. Early motion pictures, 1985; AFI cat.: film beginnings, 1893-1910, 1995; Biograph picture catalogue, Nov. 1902 [MI], p. 12; Biograph photo catalog, v. 1 [MI].
- Venue
- Filmed at the Biograph New York City studio, perhaps on the roof.
- Additional physical form
- Available on the Internet; Library of Congress World Wide Web site (http://lcweb.loc.gov)
- Subjects
- Dance, Black--United States
- Afro-American dance--United States
- Dancers--New York (State)--New York
- Silent films
Last Updated: 08-31-2012