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

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 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.

FILE:THE GAY SHOE CLERK (1903)

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! 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).

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

The Gay Shoe Clerk was directed by Edw S. (There’s some scholarly bate as to whether the shot The Gay Shoe Clerk is narrative or an attractn meant merely to showse the ankle.

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However, I should mentn that both The Sick Kten and The Gay Shoe Clerk e the closp a more morn manner as they do not require the motivatn of a telpe or magnifyg glass or anythg else as an exce to brg the viewer for a closer look. It uld be argued that The Gay Shoe Clerk’s closp is a pot-of-view shot but do not align wh the clerk’s le of sight and is clearly prent for the benef of the dience. (You n see an excellent example of multiple terpolated closps Smh’s edy Mary Jane’s Mishap, which was ma a b before The Gay Shoe Clerk.

Both The Gay Shoe Clerk and As Seen Through a Telpe give the viewer a good look at the lower part of a woman’s leg but jt how shockg would this have been the wtern world of the early 1900s?

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Of urse, ’s all the prentatn and The Gay Shoe Clerk treats both the peep at the ankle and the kiss as forbidn u.

(It’s possible that the young lady was played by a male Edison employee drag, as was the se The Gay Shoe Clerk. In The Emergence of Cema, Charl Mser pots out that the vlent punishment that the clerk endur at the end of The Gay Shoe Clerk would have been an add source of pleasure to the spectator, who, after all, managed to get a good look om the safety of their theater seat.

In addn to s voyrism, The Gay Shoe Clerk b several popular plots early film: the clanste flirtatn, the kiss and the slapstick beatg.

FILE:THE GAY SHOE CLERK (1903)

Mser wr Before the Nickeloon that The Gay Shoe Clerk self was spired by siar films, Don’t Get Gay wh Your Manicure (1902), addn to As Seen Through a Telpe. The Gay Shoe Clerk is extremely typil of s era and provis wh a small preview of the more plex storytellg that was to e. It was a dynamic and excg era film and The Gay Shoe Clerk is a fe example of a typil popular edy.

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