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A Japanese Wedding
(1913) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by [?] Bertram Bracken?
Cast: (unknown)
Méliès Star Films [American] production; distributed by [?] The Vitagraph Company of America through The General Film Company, Incorporated? / Produced by Gaston Méliès. / Released 30 October 1913; in a split-reel with A Japanese Shoemaker at Work (1913). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot on-location in Japan.
[?] Documentary?
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? The proposal is made, not by the intended bridegroom, but by his best friend, who visits the intended bride and her mother, lays the proposition before them and exchanges gifts. No priest is present at the ceremony, it being performed by the bridegroom’s best man and the bride’s attendant. The ceremonious sipping of tea constitutes the principal part of the function. The bride, in herself serving the bridegroom’s parents with tea, indicates her everlasting submission to their wishes. Such are the Japanese.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Japan - Weddings
Listing updated: 30 December 2024.
References: Thompson-Star p. 235 : Website-IMDb.
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