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Captain Barnacle's Baby

Item number (ISN):

21175

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1911

Item number (ISN):

21175

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

BELTON, Ernest

Accession:

1975-0207

Media:

Film

Original title:

Captain Barnacle's Baby

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1911

Release date:

1911-08-15

Production company:

Vitagraph Company of America

Production credit:

director, Van Dyke Brooke

Cast credit:

John Bunny

Country of production:

us

Distributor name:

Vitagraph Company of America

Description:

The film opens with Captain Bunce (John Bunny) writing a letter in which he refers to Captain Barnacle's bad temper. Captain Barnacle is seen in his kitchen where he is visited by a lady who he sends away, believing that she has matrimonial designs on him. A storm arises and Captain Barnacle sends out a lifeboat but it returns without any survivors. Then a child of about four years of age is washed ashore and Captain Barnacle takes it in and cares for it. The lady returns and gets a better reception now as she occupies herself with the child. At the end Captain Bunce enters and the two men sit down together. <12mn 41s>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. The running time is based on the measured length of the archives' master print calculated at 18 fps.~2. The head title is missing.~3. John Bunny (born 1863-09-21, died 1915-04-26) was America's first comic screen star. A rotund man weighing some 300lbs, he made some 160 short films for Vitagraph between the time he joined the company in 1910 and his death in 1915.~4. Van Dyke Brooke, the creator of this film, died in 1921.

Genre:

COMEDY

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

27012

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-5618

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Max. shrinkage:

2.6%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

28327

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7712-0018

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

7712-0020

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

28330

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7712-0020

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

N-5618

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

28332

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7712-0021

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

7712-0020

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

40584

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7712-0019

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Donor restrictions:

The permission of LAC is required to reproduce this material.

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of NA : with credit to the Ernest Belton Collection, National Archives of Canada

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