Exit of Rip and the Dwarf (1896)

A series of short black and white films from director William K.L. Dickson which chronicle the adventures of Rip Van Winkle.

Director:

William K.L. Dickson

Star:

Joseph Jefferson

1 win.

Cast

Uncredited cast:
Joseph Jefferson	...	Rip Van Winkle (uncredited)

Storyline

A series of short black and white films from director William K.L. Dickson which chronicle the adventures of Rip Van Winkle.

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Plot Keywords:

rip van winkle | character name in title | 

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Genres:

Drama | Short

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

USA

Release Date:

1 September 1896 (USA)

Also Known As:

Rip and the Dwarf

Filming Locations:

Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

American Mutoscope Company

Technical Specs

Runtime:

1 min 0 min (2004 National Film Preservation Foundation print)

Sound Mix:

Silent

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.36 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

This film was incorporated wholly into the compilation film Rip Van Winkle (1903), which is in the 3-disk boxed DVD set called "More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931" (2004), compiled by the National Film Preservation Foundation from 5 American film archives. It was restored by the Library of Congress from its paper print collection, has a running time of about 25 seconds, and an added piano music score.

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Connections

Edited into Rip Van Winkle (1903)

User Reviews

Rip van Winkle #3

Because the multi-scene story films of Georges Méliès hadn't come around yet and wouldn't until 1899, to try and tell the story of Rip van Winkle in a single film was still quite unheard of. So instead of making one film, W. K. L. Dickson made eight, each one showing an event from the story--and when you read the title of every one, you'll probably know what happens in each film. "Exit of Rip and the Dwarf" is the third in the series, following "Rip Meeting the Dwarf" and preceding "Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow." Since both "Rip Meeting the Dwarf" and this film feature the exact same location, it's hard to understand why they couldn't just combine both segments together to make a single film. Not all films by 1896 had to be twenty seconds long; the Lumière Brothers in France were shooting movies twice that length with their Cinematograph. Because of lacking in knowledge in this technical aspect, I can only guess that Biograph's cameras were very primitive yet and couldn't hold as much film, since even the quality is lower than the actualities of the Lumières.

Like I've said multiple times before, each clip can't really be judged individually because each one is a very small fraction of the entire story. You have to watch them together, take out the title cards at the beginning of each segment and then get what they were going for. Even then most people nowadays won't take up much interest in any of it anyway and it's only really of interest for people like me, interested in the early years of motion pictures.