Hart, Joseph, 1861-1921, cast. DeMar, Carrie, cast. Bonine, R. (Robert K.), camera. Brady, William A., 1863-1950. Bunny, 1866-1939. American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) DLC moving image Comedy films. lcgft Filmed vaudeville acts. lcgft Silent films. lcgft Short films. lcgft Nonfiction films. lcgft United States : American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1902. eng 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. Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 23May1902; H18034. Original main title lacking. Duration: 0:30 at 16 fps. Paper print shelf number (LC 1342) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed. Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian. Biograph production no. 2146. Based on the musical Foxy Grandpa by William A. Brady, which was based on the comic strip by Carl E. "Bunny" Schultz. Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 111; AFI cat.: film beginnings, 1893-1910; American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalogue, Nov. 1902 [MI], p. 63; Biograph bulletins 1896-1908, 1971, p. 75-76; Musser, C. The emergence of cinema, p. 308. Camera, Robert K. Bonine. Joseph J. Hart (Foxy Grandpa), Carrie DeMar (Polly). Filmed May 17, 1902, in the Biograph New York City studio. Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985. Foxy Grandpa (Fictitious character) Polly (Fictitious character) Tap dancing. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files. Foxy Grandpa and Polly in a little hilarity https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/ntscrm.00046315