The 'Teddy' Bears
About The 'Teddy' Bears
A girl walks into the bears' house, eats their porridge, and watches toy bears dance through a knothole before she sleeps in the cub's bed. The bears come home. She jumps out the window with one of the cub's teddy bears, and they chase her through the snow. A hunter dressed as Theodore Roosevelt shoots the two grown bears and takes the cub. He and the girl go back into the house and come out carrying the rest of the teddy bears.
Cast & crew
More about The 'Teddy' Bears
Edwin S. Porter and Wallace McCutcheon directed it for Edison. Porter was the cameraman. Edison released it on 2 March 1907. It was advertised as "a laughable satire on a popular craze," pointing at the teddy-bear fad that followed Roosevelt's November 1902 hunt.
Themes
Look
Edwin S. Porter photographed the house, the snow chase, and the toy bears.
Preservation
A print runs 13 minutes 42 seconds on the copy attached to the Wikipedia article.
Notes
- The Wikipedia file of the film runs 13 minutes 42 seconds.
- The 1902 incident, in which Roosevelt refused to shoot a tied bear, is the source of the name teddy bear. In this picture the hunter kills the two adult bears and keeps the cub.
- An IMDb synopsis counts seven toy bears coming to life. Another account says she watches six through the knothole.
Scenes
- She watches the toy bears through a knothole, then sleeps in the cub's bed.
- The hunter shoots the two grown bears in the snow.
- He and the girl leave the house with armfuls of teddy bears.
Influenced by
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears
- Theodore Roosevelt's November 1902 bear hunt
