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

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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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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