The Barbershop
- 1893
- 1m
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5.3/10
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Customer gets a lightning-fast shave.Customer gets a lightning-fast shave.Customer gets a lightning-fast shave.
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Did you know
- TriviaThe barber on the film is an uknown Greek immigrant. That means that he is the first Greek "actor" in cinema history.
- ConnectionsEdited into Landmarks of Early Film (1997)
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Barber Shop, The (1893)
These two Edison shorts are more "film like" than previous items from the studio, which were pretty much just camera tests. In the first film we see three men hammering some iron before taking a break and passing a beer around. The second short has three men sitting around a barber shop with one of them receiving a shave. Once again these two are basically going to be for those wanting to see early examples of history so coming to either one of these films for entertainment, as we use the word today, would be quite useless. I find watching these other films to be quite entertaining because of anything Edison could have filmed, they thought audiences would want to see this.
Barber Shop, The (1893)
These two Edison shorts are more "film like" than previous items from the studio, which were pretty much just camera tests. In the first film we see three men hammering some iron before taking a break and passing a beer around. The second short has three men sitting around a barber shop with one of them receiving a shave. Once again these two are basically going to be for those wanting to see early examples of history so coming to either one of these films for entertainment, as we use the word today, would be quite useless. I find watching these other films to be quite entertaining because of anything Edison could have filmed, they thought audiences would want to see this.
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- Michael_Elliott
- Dec 31, 2008
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- Runtime1 minute
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