Film, Video Buster's joke on Papa Title from MAVIS: Busters joke on Papa, 1903 Dec 21
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Title
- Buster's joke on Papa
Other Title
- Title from MAVIS: Busters joke on Papa, 1903 Dec 21
Summary
- The first scene shows Mama buying crabs from a vendor. The second shows Papa preparing for bed while Buster places crabs in the bed. Father retires and leaps from the bed in agony at the pain inflicted by the crabs. The last scene shows Mama placing Buster on a pillow on his chair to eat his breakfast.
Names
- Porter, Edwin S., production
- Outcault, Richard Felton, 1863-1928
- Thomas A. Edison, Inc
- Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- United States : Edison Manufacturing Co., 1903.
Headings
- - Buster Brown (Advertising character)
- - Boys--United States--Discipline--Drama
- - Teasing.--Drama
- - Practical jokes--Drama
- - Fathers and sons--Drama
Genre
- Fiction films
- Silent films
- Comedy films
- Short films
Notes
- - H39775 U.S. Copyright Office
- - Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 21Dec1903; H39775.
- - Summary derived from entry in Early motion pictures catalog.
- - Paper print shelf number (LC 1515) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
- - Based on the comic strip Buster Brown, by Richard F. Outcault.
- - LC holds another version of this film with a different ending, also in the Paper Print Collection.
- - Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Musser, C. Before the nickelodeon, 1991, p. 267-72; Niver, K.R. Early motion pictures, 1985.
- - 35 mm dupe neg pic renumbered: FPE 5296 to FZA 3085.
Medium
- 1 video file (digital, MPEG-4) (ca. 2 min.) : si., b&w.
- viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 2 min., ca. 54 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
- viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 2 min., ca. 175 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.
- viewing print (copy 2) 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 2 min., ca. 175 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.
- dupe neg pic 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 2 min., ca. 54 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
- dupe neg pic 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 2 min., ca. 175 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.
- master pos pic 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 2 min., ca. 54 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
- paper pos 1 roll (ca. 130 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm.
- paper pos (copy 2) 1 roll (ca. 130 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- FLA 4529 (viewing print)
- FEB 9665 (viewing print)
- FEB 9666 (viewing print, copy 2)
- FRA 0367 (dupe neg pic)
- FZA 3085 (dupe neg pic)
- FRB 1779 (master pos pic)
- Box 0572B (paper pos)
- Box 5074B (paper pos, copy 2)
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2011600512
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Contributor
- Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress)
- Outcault, Richard Felton
- Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Porter, Edwin S.
- Thomas A. Edison, Inc