Buster's joke on Papa - movie film screenshot

The first scene shows Mama buying crabs from a vendor. The second shows Papa preparing for bed while Buster places crabs in the bed. Father retires and leaps from the bed in agony at the pain inflicted by the crabs. The last scene shows Mama placing Buster on a pillow on his chair to eat his breakfast.
H39775 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 21Dec1903; H39775.
Summary derived from entry in Early motion pictures catalog.
Paper print shelf number (LC 1515) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
Based on the comic strip Buster Brown, by Richard F. Outcault.
LC holds another version of this film with a different ending, also in the Paper Print Collection.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Musser, C. Before the nickelodeon, 1991, p. 267-72; Niver, K.R. Early motion pictures, 1985.