Uncle Josh's Nightmare

1900 Fantasy Comedy 3 minutes Directed by Edwin S. Porter

About Uncle Josh's Nightmare

Uncle Josh tries to sleep. A man in red long underwear, with horns, keeps appearing and bothering him. The appearances are trick splices on a fixed camera. Charles Manley plays Josh. Edwin S. Porter directed and photographed it.

Cast & crew

More about Uncle Josh's Nightmare

Wikidata times the short at 3 minutes. The camera does not move. The devil figure is stopped in and out of the frame. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.

Themes

A man who cannot sleep
A horned visitor
A fixed camera
Uncle Josh
nightmare
horns
Porter
Edison
Charles Manley

Look

Porter kept the camera still and used substitution splices for the appearances.

Preservation

A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

The pest wears red underwear and horns. He is not named in the catalog.
Manley is the Josh of the later moving-picture short as well.
The Commons file is Uncle Josh's Nightmare (1900).

Scenes

The horned man in red underwear pops into the bedroom each time Josh settles.

Also available

Wikimedia Commons (Uncle Josh's Nightmare)