The Barbershop (1893)
- Original title
- The Barber Shop
- Directed by
- William Kennedy Dickson
- Genre
- documentary film, silent film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 29 min
- Rating
- 5.1 of 10 from 43 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This is a short silent film from 1894 showing a scene in a barbershop. Several people interact and get shaves in a single continuous take.
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What happens
The Barbershop is an 1894 American short narrative silent film directed by William K.L. Dickson and William Heise. It was produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company at the Black Maria Studio, in West Orange, New Jersey. The film was created for the Kinetoscope. Barber Shop was the number three of ten films from the first Kinetoscope Parlor. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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