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Kansas Saloon Smashers

19011 minUnited States
Comedy

Synopsis

Women enter a saloon and attack its bottles and fittings, provoking a struggle with the bartender. A policeman intervenes in the staged confrontation.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
1:02
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

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

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Edwin Stanton Porter · Public domain

DirectorsEdwin S. Porter

Historical context

The Edison production responds to the saloon-smashing campaign associated with temperance activist Carrie Nation. The action is a dramatization; Nation herself does not appear.

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