The Barber Shop
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About The Barber Shop
In a barbershop a man gets a very fast shave. Two other men sit on either side of the chair. One of them handles a newspaper.
Cast & crew
More about The Barber Shop
William K. L. Dickson and William Heise made it for the Kinetoscope at Edison's Black Maria in West Orange. Wikipedia dates the release 1894 and the running time at 22 seconds. The file year stays 1893, the date used by several Edison lists for the Black Maria shoot. It was number three of the ten films in the first Kinetoscope parlor.
Themes
Making
The set is a painted shop inside the Black Maria, not a working barbershop.
Look
Dickson and Heise photographed the chair from a fixed camera inside the Black Maria.
Preservation
Prints survive, including a Kinetoscope subject that some copies loop.
Notes
- The action is one shave, played fast, with two men flanking the chair.
- Some copies repeat the shot so the viewing print runs longer than 22 seconds. A Wikipedia file note gives 47 seconds for one such copy.
- It was made to be watched in a Kinetoscope, one viewer at a time.
Scenes
- The barber finishes the shave in a few seconds while the two men sit.
