A morning bath / motion picture

An African American mother is shown giving her struggling child a bath. She thrusts him, kicking and struggling, into a tub of foaming suds.
60142 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 31Oct1896; 60142.
Camera, William Heise.
Duration: 0:22 at 30 fps.
Filmed in October 1896, in Edison's Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
Summary from Maguire & Baucus catalogues and from Edison films catalog.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
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].
35 mm viewing print renumbered: FEC 8079 to FYA 1149.