Cancelling machine, U.S. Post Office

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SUMMARY
The camera that photographed this film, built around the operation of cancelling mail, was placed high enough to include not only the machine and its operation but also the man who was making it work. During the film, a large number of envelopes are worked through the machine by an operator.

NOTES
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Company; 22Aug03; H34974.
Cameraman, A. E. Weed.
Filmed July 29, 1903 in Washington, D.C.

SUBJECTS
Canceling machines.
Actuality--Shorts.

RELATED NAMES
Weed, A. E., camera.
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)

DIGITAL ID
awal 0870 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/awal.0870

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