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Only five minutes of this Edwin S. Porter film has survived but we see, in the remaining fragment, the extent to which an office boy will go to watch a baseball game. A dangerous situation? We'll never know.
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Created over 1 year ago.
An interesting part is they are playing a real major league baseball game in the ealy 1900s.
Created over 1 year ago.
Some familiar action footage, but many bits that was news to me. Terrific!