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A Natural Born Gambler

191623 minUnited States
Comedy

Synopsis

An inveterate gambler keeps trying to recover his losses at a saloon gathering. Disputes, a rival player and a police raid interrupt the games, but even jail cannot stop his imaginary card-playing.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
22:45
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Bert Williams · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsBert Williams

Historical context

Bert Williams directs and performs in the blackface stage persona he used as a Black entertainer in a segregated industry. His expressive pantomime coexists with the period's racist theatrical stereotypes.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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  • Bert Williams — Samuel Lumiere studio, New York City; This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3b12509 . This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing . · Public domain

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