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A Career of Crime
Also known as {Career in Crime}
(1900) United States of America
B&W : 823 feet
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: (unknown)
American Mutoscope Company production; distributed by American Mutoscope Company. / © 11 November 1902 by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company [H23795 (part 1), H23796 (part 2), H23797 (part 3), H23798 (part 4), H23799 (part 5)]. Released June 1900: part one, “Start in Life,” available at 30 and 173 feet; part two, “Going the Pace,” available at 25 and 144 feet; part three, “Robbery & Murder,” available at 27 and 160 feet; part four, “In the Toils,” available at 27 and 164 feet; part five, “The Death Chair,” available at 32 and 182 feet. / [?] Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 format?
Drama.
Synopsis: [American Mutoscope promotional materials] / [Part 1] The first of a series of five pictures, showing how a country boy became a criminal. This scene shows how he secured a position in a grocery store by outwitting and capturing a thief. / [Part 2] The young man loses all his money at a horse race, and is about to commit suicide when a friend saves him. / [Part 3] The young man has turned to burglary, and kills a banker who discovers him in the act of robbing his safe. / [Part 4] Showing the young man in a disreputable resort, where he is arrested by officers of the law. / [Part 5] The death chair. An accurate and thrilling representation of an electric execution at Sing Sing.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Crime - Electrocution
Listing updated: 31 March 2012.
References: Bohn-Light p. 108; Musser-Emerge pp. 267, 271, 599; Robinson-Palace pp. 76, 78 : Website-AFI.
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