How Brown Saw the Baseball Game
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Production company | Lubin Manufacturing Company |
Distributed by | Lubin Manufacturing Company |
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Country | United States |
Language | Silent |
How Brown Saw the Baseball Game is an American
The film was released in November 1907. It received a positive review in a 1908 issue of of the film has survived. The identities of the film cast and production crew are unknown.
Film historians have noted similarities between the plot of How Brown Saw the Baseball Game and How the Office Boy Saw the Ball Game. It is a comedy film directed by Edwin S. Porter, having released a year before How Brown Saw the Baseball Game.
Plot
Before heading out to a baseball game at a nearby
Production
How Brown Saw the Baseball Game was
It is a
Release and reception
How Brown Saw the Baseball Game was released to theaters by Lubin Manufacturing Company on November 16, 1907,[5] and was still being shown as late as January 1910.[8] During this time, the film was sometimes presented as part of a double feature with the 1907 film Neighbors Who Borrow, a short comedy film about a man who lends nearly everything he owns to his neighbors until his wife returns home and berates him for doing so.[9][10]
Advertisements for the film touted it as "such fun", and Lubin himself promoted the film as a "screamingly funny farce".
Modern writings have often suggested that How Brown Saw the Baseball Game was produced as Lubin Manufacturing Company's alternative to the
As of February 2021[update], it is unclear whether there is a surviving print of How Brown Saw the Baseball Game; it has likely become a lost film. If rediscovered, the film would be in the public domain.[4]
References
- ^ Erickson 1992, p. 324; "How Brown Saw the Baseball Game". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved April 5, 2021.
- ^ "How Brown Saw the Baseball Game". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
- ^ a b Seiler & Seiler 2013, p. 34
- ^ a b c "How Brown Saw the Baseball Game". Silent Era. Archived from the original on March 19, 2019. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
- ^ a b c "How Brown Saw the Baseball Game". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
- ^ a b c Elderman, Rob (Spring 2007). "The Baseball Film to 1920". Base Ball. 1 (1): 24.
- ^ Erickson 2016, p. 482.
- NewspaperArchive.
- Ocala Evening Star. August 13, 1908. p. 3a. Archivedfrom the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved November 29, 2013.
- ^ "Neighbors Who Borrow". Billboard. Vol. 19. December 14, 1907. p. 21.
- ^ a b Erickson 1992, p. 324
- ^ "How Brown Saw the Baseball Game". Billboard. Vol. 19. December 14, 1907. p. 21.
- Newspapers.com.
- ^ Wood & Pincus 2003, p. 12
- ^ Spears 1971, p. 258
Bibliography
- ISBN 978-0-89950-657-9. Archivedfrom the original on April 27, 2016. Retrieved August 2, 2015.
- Erickson, Hal (2016). The Baseball Filmography, 1915 Through 2001 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-1-4766-0785-6.
- Seiler, Robert Morris; Seiler, Tamara Palmer (2013). Reel Time: Movie Exhibitors and Movie Audiences in Prairie Canada, 1896 to 1986. ISBN 978-1-926836-99-7. Archivedfrom the original on June 17, 2016. Retrieved August 2, 2015.
- Spears, Jack (1971). Hollywood: the Golden Era. ISBN 978-0-498-07552-0. Archivedfrom the original on June 29, 2016. Retrieved August 2, 2015.
- Wood, Stephen C.; Pincus, J. David (January 1, 2003). Reel Baseball: Essays and Interviews on the National Pastime, Hollywood, American Culture. ISBN 978-0-7864-1389-8.
External links
- How Brown Saw the Baseball Game at IMDb