Thieves plot to steal the gifts at a wedding.Thieves plot to steal the gifts at a wedding.Thieves plot to steal the gifts at a wedding.
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Well Shot and Exciting for 1906
A gang of crooks are at their well-equipped headquarters. Some are preparing to beg for money with signs proclaiming they are blind or crippled (despite being neither) while others plan and execute a daring robbery of the gifts at a wedding.
The only credit available for this one-reel movie in six camera set-ups is cameraman F.A. Dobson. There are a couple of interesting shots for the era. The second and fourth shots, showing the room in which the gifts are displayed and stolen, clearly makes use of the soon-to-be-famous Biograph Right Wall, a technique that would simultaneously frame the scene, adjust the composition and add a sense of dimensionality to the movie. The third set-up shows the same scene, but in a medium close-up. Clearly the legend that Griffith had to fight his bosses over the innovation is simply that. George A. Smith had been experimenting with close-ups since the late 1890s in his films, and the uncredited director (or scenarist) of this movie was building on earlier technique.
What, if any moral point, the audience was to take from this movie, is a mystery. We only see wealthy people being robbed, and the audience for this movie was not them. Likely it was intended to be exciting and nothing more, with the audience not caring who won.
The only credit available for this one-reel movie in six camera set-ups is cameraman F.A. Dobson. There are a couple of interesting shots for the era. The second and fourth shots, showing the room in which the gifts are displayed and stolen, clearly makes use of the soon-to-be-famous Biograph Right Wall, a technique that would simultaneously frame the scene, adjust the composition and add a sense of dimensionality to the movie. The third set-up shows the same scene, but in a medium close-up. Clearly the legend that Griffith had to fight his bosses over the innovation is simply that. George A. Smith had been experimenting with close-ups since the late 1890s in his films, and the uncredited director (or scenarist) of this movie was building on earlier technique.
What, if any moral point, the audience was to take from this movie, is a mystery. We only see wealthy people being robbed, and the audience for this movie was not them. Likely it was intended to be exciting and nothing more, with the audience not caring who won.
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- boblipton
- Jun 29, 2018
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- Runtime7 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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