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The Story the Biograph Told
(1904) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by Wallace McCutcheon
Cast: (unknown)
American Mutoscope & Biograph Company production; distributed by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. / Cinematography by A.E. Weed. / © 8 January 1904 (as “The Story of the Biograph Told”) by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company [H40719]. / [?] Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 format? / The production was shot at Biograph’s 14th Street studio in New York, New York, on 30 November 1903. The camera visible in the film is a British-made Moy-Basty camera.
Comedy.
Synopsis: An office boy photographs a businessman and a secretary sitting on his lap and kissing; that evening his wife sees his office flirtation on the movie screen.
Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive (paper print collection) [35mm paper positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Balconies - Calendars - Cameras: Motion picture: Moy-Basty - Clocks - Communication: Telephones - Furniture: Desks - Infidelity - Kissing - Offices - Signage - Theaters: Motion picture - Typewriters
Listing updated: 4 February 2015.
References: Film viewing : Leyda-Before pp. 46, 76, 77, 81, 85, 113; Niver-Early p. 313; Niver-First pp. 49-50, 81.
Home video: VHS.
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