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Film, Video Laura Comstock's bag-punching dog Title in Edison films catalog: Miss Laura Comstock's bag punching dog

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Title

  • Laura Comstock's bag-punching dog

Other Title

  • Title in Edison films catalog: Miss Laura Comstock's bag punching dog

Summary

  • Opens with the head and shoulders of a woman in full dress and hat and the front paws and head of a boxer visible behind a sign that reads "Miss Laura Comstock's Bag Punching Dog." Cuts to the dog sitting on his haunches on a stage with a painted backdrop of a trail through a forest. As the dog starts to wander offscreen, a large punching bag drops from above. He leaps up and hits the suspended bag with his head and body, causing it to swing. The dog repeatedly punches the bag in this manner until he knocks it down completely, grabs it in his mouth, and shakes it from side to side in his teeth.
  • "This wonderful dog "Mannie," owned by the vaudeville star, Miss Laura Comstock, is a most learned animal. He has been trained to perform all sorts of tricks, and his intelligence is, perhaps, most marked in his latest and most difficult feat, that of punching the bag. This picture depicts him in a bag punching performance which is really wonderful. His high jumps and lightning-like punches are remarkable and cause one to marvel at the amount of patience that must be necessary to teach a dog such tricks"--Edison films catalog.

Names

  • Porter, Edwin S., camera
  • Comstock, Laura, performer
  • Mannie (Dog)
  • Thomas A. Edison, Inc
  • Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • United States : Edison Manufacturing Co., 1901.

Headings

  • -  Dogs--Humor

Genre

  • Filmed vaudeville acts
  • Comedy films
  • Silent films
  • Short films
  • Nonfiction films

Notes

  • -  H4086 U.S. Copyright Office
  • -  Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 6May1901; H4086.
  • -  Original main title lacking.
  • -  Duration: 1:31 at 18 fps.
  • -  Edison catalog no. 5227.
  • -  Paper print shelf number (LC 1685) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
  • -  Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
  • -  Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 180; AFI cat.: film beginnings, 1893-1910, 1995; Musser, C. The emergence of cinema, p. 316-17, 486; Edison films catalog, no. 105, July 1901, p. 51; Musser, C. Before the nickelodeon, p. 173.
  • -  Camera, Edwin S. Porter.
  • -  Performers: Mannie the dog, Laura Comstock.
  • -  Filmed in Edison's New York City studio, in April or May of 1901.
  • -  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 (41 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
  • viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (103 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.
  • dupe neg pic 1 film reel of 1 (41 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
  • dupe neg pic 1 film reel of 1 (103 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.
  • paper pos 1 roll of 1 (ca. 100 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm.
  • paper pos (copy 2) 1 roll of 1 (ca. 100 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • FLA 4699 (viewing print)
  • FEB 8611 (viewing print)
  • FRA 1715 (dupe neg pic)
  • FPE 7536 (dupe neg pic)
  • Box 0081D (paper pos)
  • Box 5139G (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

  • 96519192

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Chicago citation style:

Porter, Edwin S., Camera, Mannie, Inc Thomas A. Edison, and Paper Print Collection. Laura Comstock's bag-punching dog. performeds by Comstock, Laura United States: Edison Manufacturing Co, 1901. Video. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/96519192/.

APA citation style:

Porter, E. S., Mannie, Thomas A. Edison, I. & Paper Print Collection. (1901) Laura Comstock's bag-punching dog. Comstock, L., performer United States: Edison Manufacturing Co. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/96519192/.

MLA citation style:

Porter, Edwin S., Camera, et al. Laura Comstock's bag-punching dog. performer by Comstock, Laura United States: Edison Manufacturing Co, 1901. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/96519192/>.