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A shoe clerk gets a little frisky with a very willing customer in this Edison comedy. Simple and short but it does include some early editing and is an example of the popular voyeuristic humor of the period. Before we get started, we should probably get one thing out of the way. The title of this film is a classic example of definitions shifting over time. Closeups are considerably older than many people realize and were being used for narrative, humor and titillation during this period.

However, I should mention that both The Sick Kitten and The Gay Shoe Clerk use the closeup in a more modern manner as they do not require the motivation of a telescope or magnifying glass or anything else as an excuse to bring the viewer in for a closer look. Though more censorious minded citizens objected to wilder films and it is always a mistake to assume that our forebears were of one mind on any subject.

Newspapers of the time are full of articles that showcased the female ankle in both photographic and drawn forms, usually under the guise of showcasing exercise or fitness. The pieces were lavishly illustrated with photos of women with hitched skirts. For science, apparently. To that end, peepshow and naughtier fare was a staple of cinema and a bestseller for the Edison film company.

The only surviving copy of the film is a paper print, so not a lot of detail is visible but it seems to be even more revealing than What Happened on Twenty-third Street with the entire knee and part of the thigh revealed for an extended period. Voyeurism could also take the form of keyhole peeping with the scene featuring a lock-shaped frame. The film Peeping Tom apparently lost possibly featured this device but we can see an early example in the surviving Ferdinand Zecca film What is Seen Through the Keyhole which is often mislabeled as Peeping Tom.

The tradition was carried into the feature era and you can see an example of it played for laughs in Cecil B. By the way, despite many assurances that a film expressly called What the Butler Saw was released in the lates or early s, I have yet to find a specific date or production company attached to it, let alone the film itself. In The Emergence of Cinema , Charles Musser points out that the violent punishment that the clerk endures at the end of The Gay Shoe Clerk would have been an added source of pleasure to the spectator, who, after all, managed to get a good look from the safety of their theater seat.

In addition to its voyeurism, The Gay Shoe Clerk combines several popular plots in early film: the clandestine flirtation, the kiss and the slapstick beating. A young couple just trying to steal a little sugar only to be met with a violent guardian was hardly an invention of the cinema but these plots were easy to communicate visually and were therefore popular.

A later example can be seen in the Russian comedy The House in Kolomna , based on a poem by Pushkin. The Gay Shoe Clerk is extremely typical of its era and provides us with a small preview of the more complex storytelling that was to come. Just three years later, Australia would release the earliest known narrative feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang.

It was a dynamic and exciting era in film and The Gay Shoe Clerk is a fine example of a typical popular comedy.

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That was funny! I wonder if the audience back then knew that when they saw the film? I liked the shoes and stockings too. They might have. Pantomime dames and female impersonators were certainly popular in mainstream entertainment.