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Early Motion Pictures, 1897-1920

Pawtucket Fire Department / American Mutoscope & Biograph Company.

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CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, 1903.

SUMMARY
A good film, photographed from a single-camera position, of the Fire Department of the city of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and its equipment. For the time, the apparatus was ultramodern.

NOTES
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Company; 05Dec03; H38865.

Cameraman, F. S. Armitage.

Cameraman credit from Niver's, Early motion pictures, p. 246.

Filmed November 23, 1903 in Pawtucket, RI.

Source used: Niver, Kemp R., Early motion pictures, 1985.

Received: 2/2000 from LC lab; ref print and dupe neg; preservation; Paper Print Collection.

SUBJECTS
Fire departments.
Actuality--Shorts.

RELATED NAMES
Armitage, F. S., camera.
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)

MEDIUM
1 reel of 1 (35 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. ref print.
1 reel of 1 (35 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. dupe neg.

CALL NUMBER
FLA 4814 (ref print)
FRA 1823 (dupe neg)

REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID
awal 1800 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/awal.1800

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