- Description:
- 16mm. release print. 1 film reel of 1.
b/w.
1.33:1. silent - no soundtrack. 18 fps
- Film Grade:
- A
- Notes:
- Silent. From the Library of Congress Paper Print Collection. New print. Negative damage to original source material. Decent contrast and tonal range. Print quality varies among shorts. Includes: A HARD WASH (Biograph Co., 1896, 24 sec.); THE GOLD DUST TWINS (G. W. Bitzer, American Mutoscope & Biograph Co., 1903, 8 sec.): ON THE OLD PLANTATION AKA COTTON SPINNING (Arthur Marvin, AM&B, May 1901, 26 sec.); LAUGHING BEN (Arthur Marvin, AM&B, May 1901, 22 sec.); GATOR AND PICKANINNY (Marvin, AM&B, Aug.1901, 25 min.); DANCING DARKEY BOY (William Heise, Edison, Oct 1897, 28 sec.); A SCRAP IN BLACK AND WHITE (A. C. Abadie, Edision, 1903, 1 min. 27 sec.); CAKE WALK (AM&B, 1903, 25 sec.); COMEDY CAKE WALK (AM&B, 1903, 25 sec.); WATERMELON CONTEST (James White, Edison, June 1900); THE SEERESS (A.E. Weed, AM&B, Jan. 1904)).
Titles
+ Hard Wash, A
- Running Time:
- Short. 0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1896
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, African - American Interest, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent.
+ Gold Dust Twins, The
- Director:
- Bitzer, G.W.
- Running Time:
- Short. 0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1903
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, African - American Interest, Silent Cinema
+ On The Old Plantation
- Alternate Title:
- Cotton Spinning
- Director:
- Marvin, Arthur
- Production Co:
- American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1901
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, African - American Interest, Silent Cinema
+ Laughing Ben
- Director:
- Marvin, Arthur
- Production Co:
- American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1901
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, African - American Interest, Silent Cinema
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ Gator And Pickaninny
- Director:
- Marvin, Arthur
- Production Co:
- American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1901
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, African - American Interest, Silent Cinema
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ Dancing Darkey Boy
- Director:
- Heise, William
- Running Time:
- Short. 0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1897
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, African - American Interest, Silent Cinema
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ Scrap In Black And White, A
- Director:
- Abadie, A. C.
- Production Co:
- Edison Mfg. Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1903
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, African - American Interest, Silent Cinema
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ Cake Walk
- Running Time:
- Short. 0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1903
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, African - American Interest, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent.
+ Comedy Cake Walk
- Running Time:
- Short. 0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1903
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, African - American Interest, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent.
+ Watermelon Contest
- Director:
- White, James
- Running Time:
- Short. 0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1900
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, African - American Interest, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent.
+ Seeress, The
- Director:
- Weed, A. E.
- Running Time:
- Short. 0 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1904
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, African - American Interest, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent.