Pillow fight / motion picture. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

"A comic subject, clear, bright and characteristic. Shows four girls in their night dresses, engaged in an animated pillow fight. During the action the pillows become torn, and the feathers fly over their heads and about the room in great numbers, producing with the white dresses and the black background a novel effect. Sharp, full of action, and popular in character. 50 feet only"--F.M. Prescott catalog.
31242 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 24May1897; 31242.
Camera, William Heise.
Duration: 0:25 at 30 fps.
Filmed ca. May, 1897, in Edison's Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
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. 305; F.M. Prescott. Latest Edison films for projecting machines, June 1897, p. 2; Edison films catalog, no. 105, July 1901, p. 69.
35 mm viewing print renumbered: FEA 8492 to FYA 2101.