Film or VideoWomen of the ghetto bathing
Main title
- Women of the ghetto bathing / American Mutoscope & Biograph Company.
Published/Created
- United States : American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, 1902.
- United States.
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- Digital viewing copy https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/ntscrm.02468406 opens in a new window
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Description
- viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (32 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
- dupe neg pic 1 film reel of 1 (32 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
- master pos pic 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 30 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
- paper pos 1 roll of 1 (ca. 50 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm.
- paper pos (copy 2) 1 roll of 1 (ca. 50 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm.
LC classification
- FLA 4373 (viewing print)
- FRA 1512 (dupe neg pic)
- FRB 1764 (master pos pic)
- Box 0161R (paper pos)
- Box 5259H (paper pos, copy 2)
Variant title
- Title from Biograph production log: Ladies day at public baths
- Title from American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalog: Ladies day at the public baths
Related names
Credits
- Camera, Arthur Marvin.
Summary
- The subject is a group of women and girls in a public swimming pool wearing turn-of the-century bathing attire. Many women and girls are playing in the pool, while others climb out and jump into the pool. The water in the the pool appears to be about four feet deep and the pool is very crowded. According the Biograph picture catalogue, the scene takes place in a New York Public Bath on "ladies day".
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Notes
- Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Company; 09Dec02; H24897.
- Duration: 0:55 at 16 fps.
- Corrected footage for 16 mm. from document "Paper Prints: major errors in catalog" in Library of Congress Moving Image Research Center; 35 mm. footage take from American Mutoscope & Biograph Picture Catalogue.
- Parts of summary taken from Early motion pictures and from the American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalogue.
- Biograph production no. 1952.
- Paper print shelf number (LC 1359) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
- Sources used: Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 369; AFI catalog: film beginnings, 1893-1910, p. 1201; Biograph production logs; American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalog, November 1902, p. 92, viewed online November 2, 2016 via the New Jersey Digital Highway.
- Photographed in the East 3rd St. Public Bath in New York City, probably in July, 1901.
- Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
Additional formats
- Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
LCCN
- 00563609
Copyright reg no.
- H24897 U.S Copyright Office
Geographic area code
- n-us-ny
Other system no.
- 11897591
Repository
- Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu
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- Film or Video
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