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The Art of “Making Up”
(1900) United States of America
B&W : [?] 65 or 377? feet
Directed by (unknown)

Cast: Kathryn Osterman [herself].

American Mutoscope Company production; distributed by American Mutoscope Company. / Cinematography by Arthur Marvin. / © 18 April 1902 by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company [H16726]. Released May 1900. / [?] Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 format? / The production was shot on 24 May 1900.

Documentary.

Synopsis: [From American Mutoscope promotional materials] Kathryn Osterman, the well-known vaudeville comedienne, in a complete exposition of the methods of “making-up” the face for the stage. She shows the penciling of the eye-brows, blackening the eye lashes, rouging the lips, applying the grease paint and so forth. The work is done in a very dainty and interesting way. Only the head and shoulders of the subject are shown; the figure thus being very large.

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

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 31 August 2009.

References: Niver-Early p. 13 : Website-AFI.