The Lost New Year's Dinner – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: The Lost New Year's Dinner, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The Lost New Year's Dinner
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The Lost New Year's Dinner is a c1908 photoprint registered by the Edison Manufacturing Company, one of the earliest American film producers. Edison's studio made many short narrative films in this period, and its copyright prints were used to register and promote them. The caption card's subject tags include motion pictures, eating and drinking, and prisons, which suggests a story centered on a meal in an unusual setting, though the record does not name the performers. The December 28 date fits the holiday theme, since a lost New Year's dinner would have been a familiar comic premise for audiences of the day.
| Created / published | c1908 Dec. 28. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | H120459 U.S. Copyright Office Photoprint copyrighted by the Edison Manufacturing Co. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Motion Pictures; Eating and drinking; Prisons... |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,149 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-149902 |
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