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The Barber’s Queer Customer
(1900) United States of America
B&W : [?] 56 or 337? feet
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: (unknown)
American Mutoscope Company production; distributed by American Mutoscope Company. / © 14 June 1902 by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company [H19018]. Released September 1900. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy: Trick film.
Synopsis: [From Biograph promotional materials] A customer enters a barber shop to be shaved. He seats himself in a chair. The barber puts a cloth around his neck. As he does so, the customer’s face undergoes a series of mysterious transformations. He appears first to be an Irishman; then an Italian with a heavy moustache; then a monkey; then a skeleton; and lastly a darky. The barber, of course, is amazed, and when he sees the darky in his chair he becomes very indignant and turns him out of the shop.
Survival status: Print exists in the George Eastman Museum film archive [35mm positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 8 March 2011.
References: Website-AFI; Website-GEM.
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