Foxy Grandpa and Polly in a Little Hilarity

SUMMARY
Opens on a stage with a stone fence and a painted backdrop of a forest or garden. Husband and wife team of Hart and DeMar as cartoon characters Foxy Grandpa and Polly enter hand-in-hand from behind the fence. Grandpa has a bald pate with bushy white hair on the sides, a big bulbous nose, and a potbelly, dressed in a light-colored suit with a vest and spats and carrying a bowler in his left hand. Polly wears a ruffled, light-colored dress with dark trim that goes to her ankles, a bedecked bonnet, white stockings, heeled shoes, and a choker around her neck. Both are smiling broadly as they reach center stage and begin their vaudeville-style dance, with tap, soft shoe, and other synchronized leg movements and twirls in what appears to be a ragtime rhythm.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1902.

NOTES
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 23May1902; H18034.

Camera, Robert K. Bonine.

Filmed May 17, 1902, in the Biograph New York City studio.

SUBJECTS
Dance--United States.
Vaudeville--United States.
Foxy Grandpa (Fictitious character)--Drama.
Polly (Fictitious character)--Drama.
Silent films.
Dance.
Vaudeville.
Shorts.

RELATED NAMES
Hart, Joseph, 1858-1921, cast.
DeMar, Carrie, cast.
Bonine, R. (Robert K.), camera.
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)

DIGITAL ID
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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• library
• congress
• silent
• dance
• vaudeville