The Barbershop
- 1893
- 1m
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5.3/10
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Customer gets a lightning-fast shave.Customer gets a lightning-fast shave.Customer gets a lightning-fast shave.
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- TriviaThe barber on the film is an uknown Greek immigrant. That means that he is the first Greek "actor" in cinema history.
- ConnectionsEdited into Landmarks of Early Film (1997)
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Not worth two views
Yes those were the days when you could get a shave and a haircut for a nickel (according to the sign behind the barber). This barber shop is on the stage in the Black Maria studio - so called because, to some people, the weird design of this building made them think of a horse-drawn police paddy-wagon that was called a "Black Maria" - at the Edison laboratory. The barber is working on a customer while a man sits screen-right. Another customer enters and sits in a vacant chair screen-left. The man-on-the-right gets up and briefly shows the man-on-the-left something in the newspaper he is holding. All this takes about 20-seconds. Then for some unknown reason, the entire scene is shown over again to produce a 40-second Kinetoscope presentation.
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- jhaugh
- Mar 17, 2003
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