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The Bad Boy’s Joke on the Nurse
(1901) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by (unknown)

Cast: (unknown)

Edison Manufacturing Company production; distributed by Edison Manufacturing Company. / © 14 August 1901 by Thomas A. Edison [H7636]. Released August 1901. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy.

Synopsis: [From Edison promotional materials] A young nurse is seated asleep on a bench with a small infant in her lap, while directly opposite her can be seen an old gentleman also snoozing. Two bad boys enter upon the scene, one gets a small log about the size of the child and places it in the nurse’s lap and the other takes the child from the nurse, and lays it in the old gent’s arms. In a few moments the old gent awakens and finds the baby, nurse wakes up and misses her baby, and seeing it in the old gent’s arms, seizes him and mops up the earth with him. A policeman marches them off to the station house. The picture is bound to provoke a great deal of mirth.

Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive (paper print collection) [35mm paper positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Children: Babies - Law: Enforcement: Policemen - Parks

Listing updated: 31 May 2014.

References: Niver-Early p. 20 : Website-AFI.

 
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