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Grandpa’s Reading Glass
(1902) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by [?] Wallace McCutcheon and/or Robert K. Bonine?
Cast: (unknown)
American Mutoscope & Biograph Company production; distributed by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. / Cinematography by Robert K. Bonine. / © 3 October 1902 by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. / [?] Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 format? / Biograph production number 2197. The film utilizes early closeup point-of-view shots.
Comedy.
Synopsis: Children use a magnifying glass to examine things close-up. // [From American Mutoscope promotional materials] A very clever and interesting picture. A family group composed of grandpa, mamma and several children are seen about a library table. One of the little girls takes a large reading glass, and with the other children looks at various objects about the room. As each object is inspected, it appears on the screen in enlarged form, just as it might look when viewed through a large magnifying glass. Among the objects thus shown are: 1. Little girl playing with kitten; 2. Monkey eating banana; 3. Parrot; 4. Baby’s face; 5. Page from comic paper; 6. Mamma’s face; 7. Mamma’s eye.
Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive (paper print collection) [35mm paper positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Children
Listing updated: 31 December 2024.
References: Film viewing : Fell-History pp. 37, 38; Musser-Emerge pp. 3-4; Niver-First p. 29 : Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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