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Early Motion Pictures, 1897-1920

Swimming pool, Palm Beach / American Mutoscope & Biograph Company.

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CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, 1905.

SUMMARY
The film, photographed from a single-camera position, shows a swimming pool with a white building on the far side. Several persons in bathing suits dive into the water from a springboard, as well as from the balcony above.

NOTES
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Company; 13Feb05; H56666.

Cameraman, G. W. Bitzer.

Cameraman credit from Niver's, Early motion pictures, p. 319.

Filmed February 3, 1905 in Palm Beach, Fla.

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
Swimming.
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 (63 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. ref print.
1 reel of 1 (63 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. dupe neg.

CALL NUMBER
FLA 5226 (ref print)
FRA 2179 (dupe neg)

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

DIGITAL ID
awal 2212 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/awal.2212

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