New Pillow Fight (1897)

Directed by

Siegmund Lubin

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Rated

NR

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of young women have a playful pillow fight in a room. The film was designed to be run forward and backward for extra entertainment.

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What happens

New Pillow Fight, also titled Daughters' Pillow Fight, is a 1897 American silent short comedy film. It was the first of a mini-genre of pillow fight movies by filmmakers such as Edison, Edwin S. Porter in The Night Before Christmas (1905), and others. This was Siegmund Lubin's third film, and it was so successful that his sometime employer Thomas Edison, whose own pillow fight film that year may have preceded Lubin's, began sending hired thugs to disrupt Lubin sets. Some theaters experimented with running it backward a second time, as the phenomenon of watching feathers go back into the pillows was new for audiences, "When run backwards this film creates no end of amusement" (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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