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Early Motion Pictures, 1897-1920

Children in the surf, Coney Island / American Mutoscope & Biograph Company.

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CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, 1904.

SUMMARY
Seven small children can be seen from the low angle camera position; the camera is pointed out to sea. The children are holding hands and wading in the surf. Beyond them can be seen three adults. At the end of the film, there is only one child in a white bathing costume holding a sailboat. Beyond the child toward the ocean is a large sailing craft.

NOTES
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Company; 12Aug04; H49062.

Cameraman, G. W. Bitzer.

Cameraman credit from Niver's, Early motion pictures, p. 54.

Filmed August 3, 1904 in Sea Gate, Coney Island, N.Y.

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
Actuality--Shorts.

RELATED NAMES
Bitzer, G. W., 1872-1944, camera.
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)

MEDIUM
1 reel of 1 (81 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. ref print.
1 reel of 1 (81 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. dupe neg.

CALL NUMBER
FLA 4992 (ref print)
FRA 1958 (dupe neg)

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

DIGITAL ID
awal 1978 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/awal.1978

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