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H62508
U.S. Copyright Office
19050622
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(DLC) 96521908
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FLA 3914 (viewing print)
FEC 2130 (viewing print)
FEC 2539 (viewing print, copy 2)
FRA 0174 (dupe neg pic)
FPE 7620 (dupe neg pic)
Box 0120D (paper pos)
Box 5201B (paper pos, copy 2)
A ballroom tragedy /
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Shooting title in Biograph Co. production logs:
Ball room tragedy
United States.
United States :
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company,
1905.
viewing print
1 film reel of 1 (26 ft.) :
si., b&w ;
16 mm.
viewing print
1 film reel of 1 (ca. 50 ft.) :
si., b&w ;
35 mm.
viewing print (copy 2)
1 film reel of 1 (50 ft.) :
si., b&w ;
35 mm.
dupe neg pic
1 film reel of 1 (26 ft.) :
si., b&w ;
16 mm.
dupe neg pic
1 film reel of 1 (ca. 50 ft.) :
si., b&w ;
35 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.
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 22June1905; H62508.
Original main title lacking.
DLC
Duration: 0:50 at 16 fps.
Paper print shelf number (LC 0900) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
DLC
Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
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Biograph production no. 3041.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 22; AFI catalog: film beginnings, 1893-1910; Biograph bulletins 1896-1908, p. 219.
Camera, G.W. "Billy" Bitzer.
Filmed June 14, 1905, in the Biograph New York City studio.
Opens on a set of a sitting room, apparently off a ballroom where dancers occasionally can be glimpsed through a curtained entrance stage right. Near the entrance, a young couple in formal attire talk--perhaps angrily--as another couple exit the dancing. The second man introduces his companion--a striking woman in a risqué white gown with a low-cut bodice and bare shoulders--to the other man and then reenters the dance hall. The young man apparently rejects his female companion, who is plainer in comparison with the new arrival, and invites the woman in white to join him on a settee. The two talk closely and affectionately, as the spurned woman returns with a knife in her hand and hides in the curtain behind the sitting couple. When the two kiss, she reaches out and stabs her rival in the back. The injured woman jumps up in pain and then collapses on the floor, apparently dead. The murderess runs away as the young man rushes to hold the fallen woman.
"The scene shows the hall of a private residence with the dance progressing in the distant parlors. A young couple are seen quarrelling, and the young man discards his fiancee for another fair charmer. The rejected girl goes away in a rage, but returns just in time to witness a scene between her lover and her rival. Infuriated at the sight she draws a stiletto from her gown and stabs the unfortunate girl who has usurped her place. 50 feet"--Biograph bulletin, no. 55.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
Jealousy
Drama.
Murder
Drama.
Crimes of passion
Drama.
Silent films.
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Melodramas (Motion pictures)
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Short films.
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Fiction films.
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Bitzer, G. W.,
1872-1944,
camera.
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
DLC
Ballroom tragedy
(DLC) 46279
MAVIS
Library of Congress
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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Digital viewing copy
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00046279
https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/ntscrm.00046279
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FEC 2539 (ref print)
MUMS VM File