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• THE GAY SHOE CLERK (1903) A SILENT FILM REVIEW
• THE GAY SHOE CLERK
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THE GAY SHOE CLERK (1903) A SILENT FILM REVIEW

The Gay Shoe Clerk (1903). In addn to s social fascatns, the three-shot Gay Shoe Clerk, filmed by Edw S.

THE GAY SHOE CLERK

The male moviegoer watchg The Gay Shoe Clerk gets the pleasure of a forbidn close view, while punishment is meted out to someone else—a cematic pattern wh a long life. Of urse, at that time “gay” referred only to his vil-may-re impetuons. The morn meang giv untend irony to The Gay Shoe Clerk, whose “young woman” was played by one of Edison’s male employe.

Two piec have been laced together: at the start, to set a gay mood, a lively stra om Stt Jopl’s “Eugenia” (1905); next, for the close-up flirtatn, kiss, and illy vlent aftermath, the very “h” song “Hello!

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The Gay Shoe Clerk was prerved om an origal negative, part of the large llectn of 450 early Edison tl donated to MoMA 1940. For analysis of the reprentatn of women early films such as The Gay Shoe Clerk, see Judh Mayne, The Woman at the Keyhole (Indiana Universy Prs, 1990).

THE GAY SHOE CLERK

As Stt Simmon stat his scriptn of the film, “Of urse, at that time “gay” referred only to his vil-may-re impetuons.