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Early Motion Pictures, 1897-1920


[Dickson greeting] / Edison Laboratory ; producer, W.K.L. Dickson, William Heise.


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OTHER TITLES
Variant LC title: Early Edison camera tests; DLC

CREATED/PUBLISHED
[United States, 1891].

SUMMARY
Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.

NOTES
Copyright: no reg.

Performer: W.K.L. Dickson.

Camera, William Heise.

Duration: 0:03 (part A) and 0:15 (part B, looped image) at 30 fps.

Filmed by May 20, 1891, in the Photographic Building at the Edison Laboratory, West Orange, New Jersey.

Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Musser, C. Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, 1997, p. 73.

SUBJECTS
Cinematography--United States--Experiments.
Motion pictures--United States--Experiments.
Salutations--United States.
Hats--United States.

RELATED NAMES
Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie), 1860-1935, production, cast.
Heise, William, production, camera.
Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Edison Collection (Library of Congress)

MEDIUM
1 reel (ca. 6 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. ref print.

CALL NUMBER
FEB 9908 (ref print)

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

DIGITAL ID
edmp 4014a 4014b http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/edmp.4014

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