The messenger boy's mistake / - movie film screenshot

"'Cholly' wishes to call on his best girl and send her a large bouquet. To find out if the girl really loves him, he sends a note with the messenger boy requesting her to "wear this" if she does. The boy delivers the note and a package which the young lady opens and finds an old pair of trousers and other masculine wearing apparel. She becomes enraged. When 'Cholly' comes she proceeds to give him instructions as to what to do in the future, etc., but before she finishes, the boy, having discovered his mistake, returns with the right box. 'Cholly' hastily closes up the wrong one, hands it to the boy and kicks him out of the door. He then opens the right box and presents the bouquet himself. She wears the flowers, and things are now all right. 95 ft."--Edison films catalog, no. 288.
H36779 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 14Oct1903; H36779.
G.M. Anderson.
Duration: 1:41 at 16 fps.
Photographed September 29, 1903 in Edison's New York City studio.
Paper print shelf number (LC 1709) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 205; Edison films catalog, no. 288, July 1906, p. 27 [MI]; AFI catalog, film beginnings, 1893-1910, p. 668.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.