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Rip Van Winkle 1896

Early film starring Joseph Jefferson. These sequences were not shot on stage, but rather on Joseph Jefferson's Buzzard's Bay estate in 1896 by the American Mutograph Company. The 1902 date on the title frame was when the copyright was secured by making a bromide print of every single frame. Jefferson was an investor in the company. These scenes were adapted for out-of-doors shooting from the stage play. In the stage version of these scenes the "dwarves" were silent. The gesturing is fairly accurate rather than adaptations for silent film. Rip's famous toast was "Here's to your health and your family's and may they all live long and prosper." In Irving's original story the men Rip met on the mountain top were the ghosts of Henrik Hudson's crew. In Jefferson's stage version they were dwarves. Note how they crouched. It is unclear who played these roles for the filming. When Rip finally succumbs to the liquor they provide, note that one of the actors (on the right) seems to begin removing his costume as if his scene was over. We see Jefferson's skill at its best in the last two sequences, when Rip awakens. He reaches down to pick up his musket only to have it disintegrate...wherewith it seamlessly becomes a walking stick. The final moment when he looks out over the Hudson Valley is the subject of a painting by George Waters. The truth is that this is a remarkable artifact of a time during the early birth of motion pictures. Jefferson was 67 when it was made and had been playing that role for nearly forty years. So, for the film, in the early scenes he is an older man playing the younger Rip. Earlier in his career the age disparity occurred when he played the old Rip. Jefferson was one of the very first important stage actors to make in film.