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'''''A Career of Crime''''' is an [[American Mutoscope]] film series made in New York City in 1900.<ref name="Griffiths 2016">{{cite book |last=Griffiths |first=Alison |title=Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=2016 |isbn=978-0-231-54156-5 |doi=10.7312/grif16106 |oclc=954133810 |page=[{{GBurl |id=dXq0CwAAQBAJ |pg=PA24}} 24]}} [{{GBurl |id=dXq0CwAAQBAJ}} Partial preview] at [[Google Books]].</ref> The film series includes No. 1: Start in Life; No. 2: Going the Pace; No. 3: Robbery & Murder; No. 4: In the Toils<ref name=afi/> and part 5 |
'''''A Career of Crime''''' is an [[American Mutoscope]] film series made in New York City in 1900.<ref name="Griffiths 2016">{{cite book |last=Griffiths |first=Alison |title=Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=2016 |isbn=978-0-231-54156-5 |doi=10.7312/grif16106 |oclc=954133810 |page=[{{GBurl |id=dXq0CwAAQBAJ |pg=PA24}} 24]}} [{{GBurl |id=dXq0CwAAQBAJ}} Partial preview] at [[Google Books]].</ref> The film series includes No. 1: Start in Life; No. 2: Going the Pace; No. 3: Robbery & Murder; No. 4: In the Toils<ref name=afi/> and part 5 ''Death in the Electric Chair''. It was marketed with an electric chair and depicts its use in carrying out the death penalty.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yRtmAQAAQBAJ&dq=%22A+Kaffir%27s+Gratitude%22&pg=PA115 | isbn=978-0-253-01072-8 | title=Richard E. Norman and Race Filmmaking | date=8 November 2013 | publisher=Indiana University Press }}</ref> It was filmed in New York City and depicts an execution at [[Sing Sing Prison]]. It is part of a film series.<ref name=afi>{{Cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/31138|title=AFI|Catalog|website=catalog.afi.com}}</ref> [[Arthur Marvin]] was the [[cinematographer]].<ref name="Spehr 1980">{{cite journal |last=Spehr |first=Paul C. |title=Filmmaking at the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company 1900—1906 |journal=The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress |publisher=Library of Congress |volume=37 |issue=3/4 |year=1980 |issn=0041-7939 |jstor=29781869 |oclc=9975276040 |pages=413–421 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/29781869 |url-access=registration |access-date=2024-07-07}}</ref> |
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The [[Library of Congress]] listed it with a copyright year of 1902.<ref name="Walls & LoC 1953">{{cite book |last=Walls |first=Howard Lemarr |author2=Library of Congress Copyright Office |title=Motion pictures, 1894-1912: identified from records of Copyright Office |url=https://archive.org/details/Motionpict18941912librrich0013 |year=1953 |oclc=1034546921 |page=[https://archive.org/details/Motionpict18941912librrich0013/page/10/mode/2up 10] |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> In 1907, a ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' advertisement offered it and reels for ''Execution of a Spy'' and ''The Wizard and the Model''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZaciAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22death+in+the+electric+chair%22+film+mutoscope&pg=RA9-PA100|title=Billboard Music Week|date=March 22, 1907|publisher=Billboard Publications|via=Google Books}}</ref> |
The [[Library of Congress]] listed it with a copyright year of 1902.<ref name="Walls & LoC 1953">{{cite book |last=Walls |first=Howard Lemarr |author2=Library of Congress Copyright Office |title=Motion pictures, 1894-1912: identified from records of Copyright Office |url=https://archive.org/details/Motionpict18941912librrich0013 |year=1953 |oclc=1034546921 |page=[https://archive.org/details/Motionpict18941912librrich0013/page/10/mode/2up 10] |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> In 1907, a ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' advertisement offered it and reels for ''Execution of a Spy'' and ''The Wizard and the Model''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZaciAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22death+in+the+electric+chair%22+film+mutoscope&pg=RA9-PA100|title=Billboard Music Week|date=March 22, 1907|publisher=Billboard Publications|via=Google Books}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 22:32, 7 July 2024
A Career of Crime is an American Mutoscope film series made in New York City in 1900.[1] The film series includes No. 1: Start in Life; No. 2: Going the Pace; No. 3: Robbery & Murder; No. 4: In the Toils[2] and part 5, Death in the Electric Chair. It was marketed with an electric chair and depicts its use in carrying out the death penalty.[3] It was filmed in New York City and depicts an execution at Sing Sing Prison. It is part of a film series.[2] Arthur Marvin was the cinematographer.[4]
The Library of Congress listed it with a copyright year of 1902.[5] In 1907, a Billboard advertisement offered it and reels for Execution of a Spy and The Wizard and the Model.[6]
It succeeded the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company film An Execution by Hanging, a movie filmed in a Jacksonville, Florida prison in 1898 that was the first motion picture to depict an execution.[7]
The Smithsonian has a an advertisement for Death in the Electric Chair at Sing Sing.[7] The George Eastman Museum has the mutoscope for the film but it is in poor condition and missing its hub.[8] In 2022 a Mutoscope with the film reel was auctioned.[9]
References
- ^ Griffiths, Alison (2016). Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America. Columbia University Press. p. 24. doi:10.7312/grif16106. ISBN 978-0-231-54156-5. OCLC 954133810. Partial preview at Google Books.
- ^ a b "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com.
- ^ Richard E. Norman and Race Filmmaking. Indiana University Press. 8 November 2013. ISBN 978-0-253-01072-8.
- ^ Spehr, Paul C. (1980). "Filmmaking at the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company 1900—1906". The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress. 37 (3/4). Library of Congress: 413–421. ISSN 0041-7939. JSTOR 29781869. OCLC 9975276040. Retrieved 2024-07-07.
- ^ Walls, Howard Lemarr; Library of Congress Copyright Office (1953). Motion pictures, 1894-1912: identified from records of Copyright Office. p. 10. OCLC 1034546921 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "Billboard Music Week". Billboard Publications. March 22, 1907 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b Institution, Smithsonian. ""Death in the Electric Chair at Sing Sing" Mutoscope Movie Poster". Smithsonian Institution.
- ^ "Subject 7654: "Electric Chair at Sing Sing" (TMS 1974.0023.0083), undated | George Eastman Museum".
- ^ "Lot Detail - CAST IRON MUTOSCOPE". auctions.morphyauctions.com.
