Blanket-tossing a new recruit /

"Company F, 1st Ohio Volunteers, initiating a new man. Nineteen times he bounces in the blanket, and each toss is funnier than the last one. 50 feet"--Edison films catalog.
38240 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 22June1898; 38240.
Original main title lacking.
Camera, William Paley.
Duration: 0:34 at 24 fps.
Paper print shelf number (LC 1354) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
Filmed ca. May or June 1898 in Tampa, Florida.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Musser, Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, p. 442; Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 31; Edison films catalog, no. 94, March 1900, p. 13 [MI]; Edison films catalog, no. 105, July 1901, p. 36 [MI].
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.