A Sound Sleeper
1909 American film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A Sound Sleeper is a 1909 American comedy film directed by D. W. Griffith and produced by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.[1][2] The short was filmed in one day in the Coytesville borough of Fort Lee, New Jersey, which at the time was a popular filming location for many early motion-picture studios in the northeastern United States. Due to the brief running time of this comedy, it was originally distributed in April 1909 on a split reel with another Biograph release, a longer dramatic film titled The Winning Coat.
A Sound Sleeper | |
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Directed by | D. W. Griffith |
Written by | D. W. Griffith |
Produced by | American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, Manhattan, New York |
Starring | Anthony O'Sullivan or John R. Cumpson |
Cinematography | G. W. Bitzer Arthur Marvin[1] |
Distributed by | American Mutoscope and Biograph Company |
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Running time | 1 reel, 214 feet (approximately 3 minutes, 20 seconds)[2] |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent |
No full original 35mm theatrical print of the comedy is known to exist; nor does a later copy transferred directly from original film stock survive in public archives or in private collections. This early Griffith work's existence is therefore cited as either lost or "unknown" in some printed and online film references.[3] A visual record of the short, however, does exist. The record is preserved in the Library of Congress, which holds a 1909 non-projectable photographic copy of much of the film.[4] Printed on a roll of paper 81-feet long, the copy was submitted by Biograph to the United States government shortly before the company released the film to theaters. The roll is part of the original documentation in Biograph's application to obtain a federal copyright on the production.[5]