A morning bath /
White, James H. (James Henry), production.
Heise, William, camera.
Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Hendricks (Gordon) Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
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Comedy films. lcgft
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Silent films. lcgft
Short films. lcgft
Nonfiction films. lcgft
United States : Edison Manufacturing Co.,
1896.
eng
An African American mother is shown giving her struggling child a bath. She thrusts him, kicking and struggling, into a tub of foaming suds.
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 31Oct1896; 60142.
Duration: 0:22 at 30 fps.
Summary from Maguire & Baucus catalogues and from Edison films catalog.
Sources used: Musser, C. Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, p. 250; Maguire & Baucus. Edison films, supp. catalogue, Jan. 20, 1897, p. 4 [MI]; Maguire & Baucus. Edison and international photographic films catalogue, April 1897, p. 12 [MI]; Edison films catalog, no. 105, July 1901, p. 69 [MI].
Camera, William Heise.
Filmed in October 1896, in Edison's Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
Mother and child--Humor.
Infants--Bathing--Humor.
African American children--Humor.
African American mothers--Humor.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
Morning bath
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