Film, Video Coach at rural post office, U.S.P.O. Title from Biograph production log: Coach exchanging mail at rural P.O.
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Title
- Coach at rural post office, U.S.P.O.
Other Title
- Title from Biograph production log: Coach exchanging mail at rural P.O.
Summary
- This section of the postal film is concerned with a stagecoach pulled by four horses arriving and delivering a pouch of mail to a rural post office for rerouting. Also visible is the post office delivery wagon.
Names
- Weed, A. E., camera
- American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
- Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- United States : American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, 1903.
Headings
- - United States.--Post Office Department
- - Horse-drawn vehicles--Washington (D.C.)
- - Post office stations and branches--Washington (D.C.)
- - Postal service--Washington (D.C.)
Genre
- Actualities (Motion pictures)
- Silent films
- Short films
- Nonfiction films
Notes
- - H34991 U.S Copyright Office
- - Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Company; 22Aug03; H34991.
- - Duration: 1:00.
- - Biograph production no. 2472.
- - Paper print shelf number (LC 0466) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
- - Sources used: Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 60; Biograph production logs; AFI catalog: film beginnings, 1893-1910, p. 200.
- - Cameraman, A. E. Weed.
- - Filmed July 30, 1903 in Washington, D.C.
- - Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
- - Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
Medium
- viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (29 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
- viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 55 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.
- dupe neg pic 1 film reel of 1 (29 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
- dupe neg pic 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 55 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.
- master pos pic 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 30 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
- paper pos 1 roll of 1 (ca. 55 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm.
- paper pos (copy 2) 1 roll of 1 (ca. 55 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- FLA 3480 (viewing print)
- FEC 1811 (viewing print)
- FRA 0761 (dupe neg pic)
- FPF 0416 (dupe neg pic)
- FRB 1340 (master pos pic)
- Box 0790C (paper pos)
- Box 5575C (paper pos, copy 2)
Repository
- Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 00564546
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- image
- video
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Contributor
- American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
- Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress)
- Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Weed, A. E.