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Film, Video [Buster and Tige put a balloon vendor out of business] Title in Early motion pictures catalog: Buster Brown series: Buster and Tige put a balloon vendor out of business / Title on paper roll: Buster and Tige puts a baloon vender out of business / Title in Before the nickelodeon: Buster and the balloon vender / Title in Edison films catalog: Buster Brown series, scene V

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Title

  • [Buster and Tige put a balloon vendor out of business]

Other Title

  • Title in Early motion pictures catalog: Buster Brown series: Buster and Tige put a balloon vendor out of business
  • Title on paper roll: Buster and Tige puts a baloon vender out of business
  • Title in Before the nickelodeon: Buster and the balloon vender
  • Title in Edison films catalog: Buster Brown series, scene V

Summary

  • "Shows an Italian balloon vender near the "Flat-iron" Building, New York City. Mrs. Brown and Buster appear on the scene. Buster begins teasing his mamma to buy him a balloon, but she refuses. Buster whistles for Tige, and at the same time jostles the vender, who roughly brushes him aside. Seeing a chance to get a balloon for nothing, Buster sets Tige upon the Italian, and points toward the balloons. The vender, in his efforts to get away from the dog, loses his hold on the balloons and they scatter in every direction. Several stray dogs join Tige in rushing upon the balloons, and in their efforts to get hold of them they butt them about in the air in all directions"--Edison films catalog, no. 288, July 1906.

Names

  • Porter, Edwin S., production
  • Outcault, Richard Felton, 1863-1928
  • Thomas A. Edison, Inc
  • Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • United States : Edison Manufacturing Co., 1904.

Headings

  • -  Buster Brown (Advertising character)
  • -  Boys--United States--Drama
  • -  Dogs--Drama
  • -  Tricks--Drama
  • -  Mothers and sons--Drama
  • -  Street vendors--Drama
  • -  Novelty balloons--Drama

Genre

  • Fiction films
  • Silent films
  • Comedy films
  • Short films

Notes

  • -  Duration: 1:19 at 16 fps.
  • -  This short was originally copyrighted with four other short films under the title, Buster Brown series (H43074).
  • -  Supplied title from LC American Memory WWW site. For more information, see notes on variant titles in MBRS Acquisitions: Paper Print (Buster Brown) file.
  • -  LC holds a viewing print compilation of Buster Brown shorts which includes this film. The viewing print (FLA 5269), which is listed in the Early motion pictures catalog, can be found under the title, Buster Brown series. [No. 3].
  • -  Based on the comic strip Buster Brown, by Richard F. Outcault.
  • -  Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Musser, C. Before the nickelodeon, 1991, p. 267-72; Niver, K.R. Early motion pictures, 1985; Edison films catalog, no. 288, July 1906, p. 29-30.

Medium

  • 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 1 min., ca. 34 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. dupe neg pic.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • FRA 8281 (dupe neg pic)

Repository

  • Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D. C. 20540 USA dcu

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2011600507

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Chicago citation style:

Outcault, Richard Felton, Inc Thomas A. Edison, and Paper Print Collection. Buster and Tige put a balloon vendor out of business. produceds by Porter, Edwin S.Uction United States: Edison Manufacturing Co, 1904. Video. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2011600507/.

APA citation style:

Outcault, R. F., Thomas A. Edison, I. & Paper Print Collection. (1904) Buster and Tige put a balloon vendor out of business. Porter, E. S. U., prod United States: Edison Manufacturing Co. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2011600507/.

MLA citation style:

Outcault, Richard Felton, Inc Thomas A. Edison, and Paper Print Collection. Buster and Tige put a balloon vendor out of business. prod by Porter, Edwin S.Uction United States: Edison Manufacturing Co, 1904. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2011600507/>.