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[Newark athlete. Fragment 1] /. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

[Newark athlete. Fragment 1] /. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

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Summary

Experimental film made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.
Camera, W.K.L. Dickson and William Heise.
Incomplete: [Newark athlete. No. 1] is only 45 frames long. For a more complete copy, see [Newark athlete. No. 2], lccn 00694133.
Duration: 0:11 (looped image) at 30 fps.
Filmed in May or June, 1891, in the Photographic Building at the Edison Laboratory, West Orange, New Jersey.
Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
On one reel with: [Men boxing] and [Dickson greeting].
This film was selected for the National Film Registry.
Source used: Musser, C. Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, p. 74.
35 mm viewing print renumbered: FEB 9908 to FYA 1278.

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Date

01/01/1891
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Contributors

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