Birth of the Pearl

SUMMARY
Frame enlargements showing women in tights opening a curtain, an oyster shell with a sleeping woman in a flesh colored body suit, and the woman standing in the shell.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
[1903]

NOTES
Item in: Birth of the pearl / American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. United States: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1903.

Cameraman: F.S. Armitage.

SUBJECTS
Women--Clothing & dress--1900-1910.
Burlesque shows--1900-1910.
Shells--1900-1910.
Tableaux--1900-1910.
Erotica--1900-1910.
Film stills--1900-1910.
Photographic prints--1900-1910.

RELATED NAMES
Armitage, F. S.

DIGITAL ID
( scan of curtain opening, from b&w photo in Publishing Office ) ppmsca 02981 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.02981
( scan of woman sleeping, from b&w photo in Publishing Office ) ppmsca 02982 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.02982
( scan of woman standing, from b&w photo in Publishing Office ) ppmsca 02983 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.02983

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• library
• congress
• silent
• paperprint
• vaudeville
• Burlesque