The Barbershop

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The Barbershop
The Barbershop.jpg
Directed byWilliam K.L. Dickson and William Heise
Production
company
Release date
1894
Running time
22 seconds

The Barbershop is an 1894 American short narrative film directed by William K.L. Dickson and William Heise. It was produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company at the Black Maria Studio, in West Orange, New Jersey. The Kinetoscope[1] film has been described as Heise's most ambitious film production.[2]

Plot[]

In a barbershop, a barber gives a man an incredibly fast shave as two other men sit on each side of the chair.

References[]

  1. ^ Mannoni, Laurent; Crangle, Richard (1 January 2000). The great art of light and shadow: archaeology of the cinema. University of Exeter Press. p. 406. ISBN 978-0-85989-567-5.
  2. ^ Musser, Charles (1990). The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907. University of California Press. p. 234. ISBN 978-0-520-08533-6.

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