SUMMARY
The subject of this Postal Department documentary is "snatching" the mail bag from the suspended post by the railroad mail clerk. As the film begins, a man climbs the steps leading to the device that suspends the mail bag in the air. A train can be seen in the distance approcaching the mail bag. At the end of the film, the mail bag is just being snatched from the suspension device.
NOTES
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Company; 01Oct03; H36399.
Cameraman, A. E. Weed.
Filmed September 21, 1903 in St. Georges, MD.
SUBJECTS
Railway mail service.
Actuality--Shorts.
RELATED NAMES
Weed, A. E., camera.
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
DIGITAL ID
awal 0571 [ Ссылка ]
