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The Photographer’s Mishap
(1901) United States of America
B&W : 100 feet
Directed by [?] Edwin S. Porter?
Cast: (unknown)
Edison Manufacturing Company production; distributed by Edison Manufacturing Company. / Cinematography by Edwin S. Porter. / © 31 July 1901 by Thomas A. Edison [H7329]. Released July 1901. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / [?] The film may have been illegally-duplicated and distributed as Photographer’s Mishap (1901) by S. Lubin.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [From Edison promotional materials] An amateur photographer sets his camera up on a railroad track to make a photograph of an overhead bridge, and is so busily engaged focussing the bridge that he fails to notice an approaching express train which strikes him and throws him about ninety feet, completely demolishing his camera and tripod. As it is impossible to kill a kodak fiend, he jumps up, brushes himself off, picks up some pieces of the tripod, throws them down in disgust, shakes his fist at the fast receding train, steps directly in front of a train going in the opposite direction, and is rescued by two men who push him off the track in time to save his life. An excellent subject, and warranted to please the most critical.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 12 April 2024.
References: Website-AFI.
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