What happened in the tunnel / - movie film screenshot
Summary
"Interior of railroad coach. Pretty young lady and colored maid occupying seat. Young man in rear seat tries to attract young lady's attention. She drops her handkerchief. Young man picks it up and hands it to her, and then takes advantage of the opportunity and leans over the back of her seat and begins to make love to her. As the train enters a tunnel he tries to put his arms around her, and when the train emerges from the tunnel he is hugging and kissing the colored maid, the young lady in the meantime having changed seats with the maid. 60 Ft. $7.20"--Edison films catalog.
H37683 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 6Nov1903; H37683.
Cast: G.M. Anderson.
Duration: 0:59 at 16 fps.
Paper print shelf number (LC 0646) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
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Photographed on October 30-31, 1903 in Fort Lee, New Jersey, and in the Edison studio in New York, NY.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Musser, C. Before the nickelodeon, p. 262-63; Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 359-360 ; Edison films catalog, no. 288, July 1906, p. 27 [MI].
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
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