A Career of Crime is an American Mutoscope film series made in New York City in 1900.
It was marketed with an electric chair and depicts its use in carrying out the death penalty.
[6] In 1907, a Billboard advertisement offered it and reels for Execution of a Spy and The Wizard and the Model.
[7] It succeeded the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company film An Execution by Hanging, a movie filmed in a Jacksonville, Florida prison in 1898 that was the first motion picture to depict an execution.
[8] The George Eastman Museum has the mutoscope for the film but it is in poor condition and missing its hub.