A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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(1903) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by Wallace McCutcheon

Cast: Kathryn Osterman

American Mutoscope & Biograph Company production; distributed by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. / Cinematography by G.W. Bitzer. / © 3 August 1903 by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. / [?] Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 format? / The film utilizes point-of-view shots through keyhole-shaped mattes.

Drama.

Synopsis: A suspicious wife and a detective search a hotel for her cheating husband.

Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive (paper print collection) [35mm paper positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Keyholes - Keyhole shots - Law: Enforcement: Police: Detectives

Listing updated: 31 August 2009.

References: Film viewing : Fell-History pp. 38, 39; Niver-First p. 35; Robinson-Palace p. 124.

Home video: DVD.