Scenes in an Infant Orphan Asylum

Scenes in an Infant Orphan Asylum

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 17, 1904

Runtime

0h 8m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

30%

Original Title

Scenes in an Infant Orphan Asylum

Production Companies

Edison Studios

Director

Edwin S. Porter

Description

The subject of this documentary is an orphan asylum for infants. The beginning portion includes the dining facilities for the children. A woman dresses as a nurse leads approximately two hundred small children into the eating area where they stand behind their chairs. At a given signal, each child sits down and begins eating. The remainder of the film is devoted to showing some of the infants, less than a year old, being pushed in baby carriages and bathed, and later having haircuts. All of the children wear similar attire and the nurses wear uniforms. New York City.