New Pillow Fight - 1897

Controversy surrounds this film clip. Is it Thomas Edison? Or Aryeh Lubin?

Lubin had a habit of looking at his competitors' work, especially since there was no copyright back then. He would buy a competitor's movie and reprint it for his own catalogue.

A film on the internet claims to be this film. It is not. It is just the Edison film Pillow Fight. Lubin is certainly known to have made a copy (as he almost invariably did), taking "new" on the front of the title (as he almost invariably did) with his daughter and her friends as the pillow-fighters but the film is not known to have survived.

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