A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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Cast: (unknown)

American Mutoscope Company production; distributed by American Mutoscope Company. / Cinematography by [?] G.W. Bitzer? / Premiered 12 October 1896 at Hammerstein’s Olympia Music Hall Theatre in New York, New York. / [?] Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 format? / Biograph production number 30. The production was shot at approximately 36 frames per second. The film was made for Biograph projection and was shown for the first Biograph system program.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: African-Americans - Children

Listing updated: 4 November 2022.

References: Musser-Emerge pp. 148, 149; Slide-Early p. 12 : Website-IMDb.