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Uncle Josh At The Moving Picture Show (1902) Directed By Edwin S. Porter
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Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show (1902) Director: Edwin S. Porter Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show is a 1902 American short silent comedy film directed by Edwin S. Porter, featuring a naive spectator trying to interact with films projected onto a screen. It is an almost identical remake of a British 1901 film directed by Robert W. Paul, The Countryman and the Cinematograph. Paul's film was the first to feature a film shown within a film. Analysis: There are a number of differences between this film and the British original. Firstly, it is the third of a series of films directed by Edwin S. Porter featuring the character of Uncle Josh, played by Charles Manley. The others were, in 1900, Uncle Josh's Nightmare and Uncle Josh in a Spooky Hotel. Uncle Josh Weathersby was a character, created onstage by Cal Stewart, who lived in a mythical New England farming town called "Punkin Center". Edison had recorded several cylinders of Cal Stewart's very successful speeches and songs before producing these films. The staging of Porter's version is a bit different from the 1901 version, with a slightly wider frame showing a stage with a box to the left and larger than life characters o…
Directors & creators
Edwin S. Porter
Subjects
Edwin S. Porter, 1902
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