It's a busy afternoon captured by the camera across the street from the camera. People are walking about, horse cars pass by, a man stops to get his shoes shined. And the Crawford Shoe Store is right there.
I've tried Googling "Crawford Shoe Store" and found a couple of them in the Midwest. Perhaps they were a chain, and paid for this movie, figuring it would be a popular movie, and play to audiences, like WORKERS LEAVING LUMIERE FACTORY, and sales would soar! Think of how shoe polish would fly off the shelves!
Perhaps this was intended to be one of those "Downtown scene" movies , in which people got to see Union Square in New York, the Ginza in Tokyo, and so forth. That would indicate that the unknown film maker thought a shoe store was the center of activity in the unnamed town this was shot in.
I don't like either of those theories either.
I've tried Googling "Crawford Shoe Store" and found a couple of them in the Midwest. Perhaps they were a chain, and paid for this movie, figuring it would be a popular movie, and play to audiences, like WORKERS LEAVING LUMIERE FACTORY, and sales would soar! Think of how shoe polish would fly off the shelves!
Perhaps this was intended to be one of those "Downtown scene" movies , in which people got to see Union Square in New York, the Ginza in Tokyo, and so forth. That would indicate that the unknown film maker thought a shoe store was the center of activity in the unnamed town this was shot in.
I don't like either of those theories either.
