Buster's joke on Papa - movie film screenshot
Summary
A vendor comes into the kitchen and sells crabs to the cook.The next scene is in a bedroom where Papa can be seen sitting in a rocker, reading a newspaper. He leaves the room to prepare for bed and Buster is seen placing crabs in his bed. Papa returns, gets into bed and right out again, with some crabs attached to his anatomy. The last scene shows Buster being led to a chair by his mother. He is wearing a large, soft pillow tied to his posterior.
H37396 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 28Oct1903; H37396.
Summary derived from entry in Early motion pictures catalog.
Paper print shelf number (LC 1514) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
Based on the comic strip Buster Brown, by Richard F. Outcault.
LC holds another version of this film with a different ending, also in the Paper Print Collection.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Musser, C. Before the nickelodeon, 1991, p. 267-72; Niver, K.R. Early motion pictures, 1985.
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