PREVIOUS NEXT NEW SEARCH

Early Motion Pictures, 1897-1920


Hadj Cheriff / Thomas A. Edison, Inc. ; producer, W.K.L. Dickson.


Information about Video Playback

View this film:
(To download the film for future viewing, be sure to set your browser to the "load to disk" or "retrieve to disk" option.)

Part 1 of 1

RealMedia format ... for 28.8 or higher modem
MPEG format ... 3 megabytes
Quick Time format ... 1 megabytes


OTHER TITLES
Hadji Cheriff

Variant title in C. Musser: Arab knife juggler

Erroneous inventory title from MAVIS: Sheikh Hadji Taha

CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : Edison Manufacturing Co., [1894]

NOTES
Copyright: no reg.

Performer: Hadji L. Cheriff.

Camera, William Heise.

Duration: 0:19 at 30 fps.

MAVIS 179351.

Filmed October 6, 1894, in Edison's Black Maria studio.

Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Musser, C. Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, 1997, p. 137.

Received: 5-13-1994; viewing print; preservation; Hendricks (Gordon) Collection.

SUBJECTS
Jugglers--United States.
Juggling--United States.
Knives.
Arabs--Games--United States.
Variety

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

MEDIUM
1 film reel of 1 (ca. 1 min., ca. 36 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. viewing print.

CALL NUMBER
FEC 8058 (viewing print)

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

DIGITAL ID
edmp 4027 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/edmp.4027

PREVIOUS NEXT NEW SEARCH