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A Career of Crime is an American Mutoscope film series made in New York City in 1900. The film series includes No. 1: Start in Life; No. 2: Going the Pace; No. 3: Robbery & Murder; No. 4: In the Toils[1] and part 5 known as Death in the Electric Chair. It was marketed with an electric chair and depicts its use in carrying out the death penalty.[2] It was filmed in New York City and depicts an execution at Sing Sing Prison. It is part of a film series.[1] Arthur Marving was the cameraman.[3]
It 1907, a Billboard advertisement offered it and reels for Execution of a Spy and The Wizard and the Model.[4]
It succeeded the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company film An Execution by Hanging, a movie filmed in a Jacksonville, Florida prison in 1898 that was the first motion picture to show an actual execution.[5]
The Smithsonian has a an advertisement for Death in the Electric Chair at Sing Sing.[5] The George Eastman Museum has the mutoscope for the film but it is in poor condition and missing its hub.[6] In 2022 a Mutoscope with the film reel was auctioned.[7]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com.
- ^ Richard E. Norman and Race Filmmaking. Indiana University Press. 8 November 2013. ISBN 978-0-253-01072-8.
- ^ Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America. Columbia University Press. 23 August 2016. ISBN 978-0-231-54156-5.
- ^ "Billboard Music Week". Billboard Publications. March 22, 1907 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b Institution, Smithsonian. ""Death in the Electric Chair at Sing Sing" Mutoscope Movie Poster". Smithsonian Institution.
- ^ "Subject 7654: "Electric Chair at Sing Sing" (TMS 1974.0023.0083), undated | George Eastman Museum".
- ^ "Lot Detail - CAST IRON MUTOSCOPE". auctions.morphyauctions.com.