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What Demoralized the Barber Shop

What Demoralized the Barber Shop

1901Short
ComedyDocumentaryShort
4.2
IMDB Rating
21 votes

It is a rainy day outside. The ladies are waiting for a car just in front of the shop. The man who is having his boots blackened, looks up the stairway to the sidewalk and sees the "show" first, and the others all crowd to the doo...

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Language
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Country
United States
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🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Production
Edison Manufacturing Company

🏷️ Keywords

year 19011900s20th centurycar

🎯 Categories

ComedyDocumentaryShort

⭐ Featured Review

A Good View Of The Show
by boblipton2025-11-29
5/10

"At a basement barber shop the occupants are distracted by a good view of the stockinged legs -- did they still say "limbs" in Victorian prudishness? -- of two young women standing at the top of the steps, waiting. All of the comments are for the 1904 version of this movie which was directed by William Heisse. To be honest, I can't tell the different between the two save that this one seems to have been shot from slightly further away. But if you told the second was simply a copy of the first, with the left side slightly trimmed, I would believe you...."

📖 Synopsis

It is a rainy day outside. The ladies are waiting for a car just in front of the shop. The man who is having his boots blackened, looks up the stairway to the sidewalk and sees the "show" first, and the others all crowd to the doo...