Alphonse and Gaston, no. 3 - movie film screenshot

Opens on a set of a saloon or tavern with a long bar and pictures on the wall that include boxers, a ballerina, and a reclining female. At the end of the bar stands the bartender, reading a newspaper. Two men dressed as the clownish characters of Alphonse and Gaston enter the bar. Both have dark, bushy hair and beards and wear hats, with one dressed in a dark jacket and checkerboard pants and the other wearing a plaid jacket, dark trousers, and spats. Alphonse and Gaston order a bottle, then politely and repeatedly insist that the other should take the first drink. A cowboy dressed in fringed chaps, boots, a Western hat, and a neck kerchief enters the bar, a pistol in each hand, and laughs at the Frenchmen's antics. He begins shooting at their feet, forcing them to dance, while he and the bartender have a good laugh. As the bartender begins to spritz them from soda bottle, Alphonse and Gaston exit the bar dancing. The cowboy walks to the bar and pours himself their drink as he and the bartender continue to laugh over the incident.
"Alphonse and Gaston are in a Western saloon and are forced to dance by a cowboy, who urges them on by shooting at their feet. 54 feet"--Biograph bulletins.
H37366 U.S. Copyright Office
Based on the comic strip characters created by Frederick Burr Opper.
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 27Oct1903; H37366.
Original main title lacking.
Camera, A.E. Weed.
Duration: 0:53 at 16 fps.
Filmed October 16, 1903, in the Biograph studio, New York City.
Biograph production no. 2623.
Paper print shelf number (LC 1453) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
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Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 5; AFI catalog: film beginnings, 1893-1910, p. 20; Biograph production logs; Biograph photo catalog, v. 6 [MI]; Biograph bulletins 1896-1908, p. 197, p. 423; Musser, C. The emergence of cinema, p. 308.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
Paper print roll lacking suffix.