A Winter Straw Ride
About A Winter Straw Ride
Two groups of young women climb into horse-drawn carts and ride through snowy streets on the straw. Children snowball them as they pass, and other people join in. One cart tips. Riders spill into the snow. The snowballing takes over from the ride.
Cast & crew
More about A Winter Straw Ride
Wallace McCutcheon and Edwin S. Porter directed. Porter also photographed. Edison released it in April 1906. Thomas A. Edison copyrighted it on 7 April 1906, entries H75315 through H75321. The negative is 500 feet, black and white, silent.
Themes
Making
The gag is one street and a tipped cart. McCutcheon and Porter let the snowball fight replace the ride instead of cutting back to a story.
Look
Porter photographed the two carts, the children, and the spill in a single winter street.
Music
Silent.
Preservation
A print survives in the Paul Killiam collection.
Notes
- Both men are credited as directors. Porter is the cameraman.
- Five hundred feet is the published length. No minute count is printed with it.
- A print is in the Paul Killiam collection, held by Worldview Entertainment.
- It is in the public domain in the United States.
Scenes
- The women set off in two carts piled with straw.
- Children start the snowballs, and passers-by join.
- One cart goes over and the ride becomes a snow fight.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (A Winter Straw Ride (1906).webm)
