The Counterfeiters
Rating
Title
The Counterfeiters
Creator
Lubin Manufacturing Company
Description
This sophisticated story film containing at least twenty-seven shots details the investigation of a gang of counterfeiters by U.S. Secret Service agents. In shot 6 , the old woman aiding the counterfeiters exits their attic work room then returns with a large box bearing the Lubin trademark , the word 'copyrighted ' prominent below it - a brazen joke from a notorious counterfeiter of competitors ' wares ? The film's second half consists of a jailbreak and chase after one of the crooks clad in convict stripes. The jailbreak scene contains an inserted medium close up of the prisoner using a smuggled saw to cut through the cell door. Though the original title is extant , nitrate decomposition at the tail of the print necessitated a trim. Our version stops just before the escaping crook is recaptured , though the catalog pictures two more scenes : i) the chase continues in rowboats ; ii) the fleeing counterfeiter is seized and clubbed by the cops on a city street. The print did include a few salvageable frames of the last scene. (Worland , 1995 : http://www.fiafnet.org/pdf/uk/fiaf51.pdf)
Contributors
Worland, Rick
Original Date
1905
Original Format
35 mm nitrate film
Related Resources
Worland , R. 1995. The Sulphur Springs , Texas early films discovery. Journal of Film Preservation 51 : 54-64. http://www.fiafnet.org/pdf/uk/fiaf51.pdf (Note : go to page 56 in the.pdf file)
Item Number
SSM27
Type
Video
Digitization Date
Digitized for web: 2011
Digital Format
TRT 00:06:21.64 ; Archival File: Video: DV-NTSC, 640 x 480; Streaming File: Presented in Vimeo as 480 x 360
Digitization Process
Files were ripped from source DVD to create NTSC .mov master file. Utilized reverse-telecine using standard 2s3w pattern to create a 640x480, 23.98fps, square pixel master file. Uploaded .mp4 derivative to Vimeo.
Web Page
https://sites.smu.edu/cdm/cul/ssm/stream/SSM27_Stream.html
Related file(s)
ssm27_counterfeiters_up.mp4
Digital Collection
Sulphur Springs Collection of Pre-Nickelodeon Films
Part of
Sulphur Springs
Library
G. William Jones Film and Video Collection Hamon Arts Library
Publisher
SMU Libraries
Rights
Please cite the G. William Jones Film and Video Collection, Southern Methodist University when using this file. For more information contact filmarchive@smu.edu.
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