Background of the scenario
The fifth and final game of the 1913 World Series was held at the Polo Grounds, New York City, with a registered attendance of 36,632. The game lasted one hour and thirty-nine minutes. While the cast listing given above includes all of the Athletics and Giants players who were in the final game, it is not known if all were actually included in the Thanhouser film of the subject.
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- New York City, October 11, 1913
- Bowers’ notes
- This was the first Princess film. Unlike nearly all later Princess films, it was a documentary. 2. Forthcoming Princess films were announced in a news article in Reel Life, October 18, 1913, which did not mention The Final Game, but which stated that: “Titles of initial releases are Looking for Trouble, Lobster Salad and Milk, and The Campaign Manageress, farces as the titles would indicate. In these Muriel Ostriche, a petite and attractive actress who figures in popularity contests, and Marie Kline [sic; Eline was intended], popularly known as The Thanhouser Kid, are the featured leads.” Apparently, The Final Game was an anomaly; a documentary released under the Princess name before the regular Princess films were ready. 3. A full-page advertisement by Pathé Frères a year earlier, in The Moving Picture World, October 26, 1912, gave details of an agreement with the National Baseball Commission which provided that Pathé could exclusively film the 1912 World Series between the Giants and the Red Sox. The camera position was stated in the agreement, which may have also been the case when Thanhouser filmed the 1913 event: “The National Baseball Commission will allow the admittance of two motion picture cameras and two operators and three assistants, and will provide said Pathé Frères with one box immediately in a line drawn from the home plate to the first base, from which said motion picture camera may be placed.”
From Volume II: Filmography of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. Read the history of 1913 →
Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “The Final Game”. thanhouser.org/films/the-final-game/
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