Feeding the doves / Thomas A. Edison, Inc. ; producer, James White.

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Feeding the doves / Thomas A. Edison, Inc. ; producer, James White.

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CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : Edison Manufacturing Co., 1896.

SUMMARY
From Maguire & Baucus catalogues: A farm yard picture, showing a young girl and her baby sister scattering grain to the doves and chickens. The fluttering birds and excited fowls give an abundance of action to the scene, which is one of the prettiest, clearest and most attractive ever taken.

NOTES
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 23Oct1896; 58470.

Camera, William Heise.

Duration: 0:25 at 27 fps.

MAVIS 914.

Filmed ca. mid-October 1896.

Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Musser, C. Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, 1997, p. 249; Maguire & Baucus. Edison films, supp. catalogue, Jan. 20, 1897, p. 4 [MI]; Maguire & Baucus. Edison and international photographic films catalogue, April 1897, p. 8 [MI]; Edison films catalog, no. 105, July 1901, p. 81 [MI].

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

SUBJECTS
Pigeons--Feeding and feeds--United States.
Chickens--Feeding and feeds--United States.
Girls--United States.
Farm life--United States.
Farms--United States.
Actuality

MEDIUM
1 film reel of 1 (ca. 1 min., ca. 42 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. viewing print.

CALL NUMBER
FEC 8074 (viewing print)

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

DIGITAL ID
edmp 4044 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/edmp.4044

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