Scenes in an Infant Orphan Asylum

The subject of this documentary is an orphan asylum for infants. The beginning portion includes the dining facilities for the children. A woman dresses as a nurse leads approximately two hundred small children into the eating area where they stand behind their chairs. At a given signal, each child sits down and begins eating. The remainder of the film is devoted to showing some of the infants, less than a year old, being pushed in baby carriages and bathed, and later having haircuts. All of the children wear similar attire and the nurses wear uniforms. New York City.

• Edwin S. PorterDirector

Release date

July 17, 1904

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

8m

Genres

Documentary