Leander Sisters / - vaudeville film

The Leander Sisters perform a clever, characteristic dance called the "Yellow Kid." Stage is in the Sutro Baths, San Francisco, Cal., and the audience is composed largely of bathers. One sister appears to be dressed as Richard Outcault's Yellow Kid comic strip character.
60561 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 25Oct1897; 60561.
Performers: Leander Sisters.
Camera, Frederick Blechynden.
Duration: 0:26 at 30 fps.
Parts of summary from the Edison films catalog.
Paper print shelf number (LC 1277) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
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Filmed August 22, 1897, at the Sutro Baths in San Francisco, California.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Musser, C. Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, p. 331-332; Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 181; Edison films catalog, no. 105, July 1901, p. 51 [MI].
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.