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Boys Take Grandpa’s Cigars with Distressing Results
Also known as The Boys Help Themselves to Foxy Grandpa’s Cigars in the USA
(1902) United States of America
B&W : [?] 50 or 55? feet
Directed by (unknown)

Cast: Joseph Hart [Foxy Grandpa]

American Mutoscope & Biograph Company production; distributed by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. / From the musical play adaptation Foxy Grandpa of the comic strip “Foxy Grandpa” by Carl E. Schultze. / Cinematography by Robert K. Bonine. / Released May 1902. / [?] Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 format?

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 8 March 2010.

References: Musser-Emerge p. 599 : Website-AFI.