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Title in Raff & Gammon price list: Caicedo
Caicedo. No. 1
CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : Edison Manufacturing Co., [1894]
SUMMARY
From Raff & Gammon price list: The "King of the Wire" in his marvelous slack wire performance. $10.00.
NOTES
Copyright: no reg.
Performer: Juan A. Caicedo.
Camera, William Heise.
Duration: 0:19 at 30 fps.
According to Edison film historian C. Musser, Venezuelan rope and slack wire walker Juan Caicedo performed in the U.S. during 1894 and again at the end of the century. From May 14 to Sept. 8, 1894, he appeared at Koster & Bial's Music Hall in New York City.
MAVIS 180325.
Filmed July 25, 1894, at the Edison Laboratory in West Orange, N.J.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Musser, C. Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, 1997, p. 108; Raff & Gammon. Price list of films, ca. June 1895, p. 1 [MI].
Received: 5-13-1994; viewing print; preservation; Hendricks (Gordon) Collection.
SUBJECTS
Aerialists--United States.
Vaudeville--United States.
Wire rope--United States.
Venezuelans--United States.
Variety
RELATED NAMES
Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie), 1860-1935, production.
Heise, William, camera.
Caicedo, Juan A., performer.
Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Hendricks (Gordon) Collection (Library of Congress)
MEDIUM
1 film reel of 1 (ca. 1 min., 37 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. viewing print.
CALL NUMBER
FEC 8115 (viewing print)
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D. C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID
edmp 4021 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/edmp.4021
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