Fun in a bakery shop

SUMMARY
The set is of the interior of a bakery. A man in a baker's hat and costume enters and begins kneading some dough on a table by the oven. He notices a make-believe rat crawling up the side of a nearby barrel and throws the dough at the rat, covering it completely. He then goes over to the dough and begins to pummel it with his hands. His back is to the camera, which obscures the actual manipulation of the dough, but when he steps away there is now a sculptured mask to admire. He sculpts another mask, and two other men, also dressed as bakers, come in, see what he is doing, pick him up bodily, and stick him head first into the flour barrel.

Another proto-animation film, incorporating what might be called a ""lightning sketch"" version of claymation. Presented as a one-shot film, it too uses a stop-camera trick.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : Edison Manufacturing Co., 1902.

NOTES
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 3Apr1902; H15916.

Digital file includes a piano score composed and performed by Philip Carli.

SUBJECTS
Bakeries--Drama.
Bakery employees--Drama.
Dough--Drama.
Sculpture--Drama.
Masks (Sculpture)--Drama.
Sculptors--Drama.
Comedy films.
Trick films.
Clay animation films.
Silent films.
Short films.
Fiction films.

DIGITAL ID
animp 1620 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/animp.1620