The Dying Cowboy or Streets of Laredo

This film was made in the year 1894. The song, performed by Mr. Walden on his Ceramic Sweet Potato is a ballad of the same century.

Ocarinist: A. B. Walden

Cowboy: Lee Martin

Gunman: Frank Hammitt

Film: "Bucking Broncho" by Thomas A. Edison, 1894

Cameraman: William Heise

Producer: W. K. L. Dickson

Filmed at Edison Laboratory, 16 October 1894

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show

Melody: "The Cowboy's Lament" or "Streets of Laredo", Traditional

Category:

Music

Tags:

• instrumental
• ocarina
• オカリナ
• okarina
• Окарина
• 陶笛
• early
• silent
• film
• western
• country
• cowboy

[IceWind9107]

I didn't even know they had means to record video back then! Well done.

[Waldco]

Thanks. This was one of the very first movies ever made. These first movies were just short shots of various activities. It was preserved by the Library of Congress. I thought that a film of an actual cowboy of the era would give some depth of realism to the song.

[scoutshouse83]

My grandfather, Jerome Lee Martin. Here is a poem he wrote for the occasion:

"At the close of the show the next face

A representative of Edison made me a case

Said "Martin, I wonder if I could hire

To show our stuff before the Black Maria"

A bargain was made a date was set

At the West Orange Depot there you were met

Said Wissard (sic) Edison: I sent for you to ride and rope

Before the Edison movie Kinetiscope"

[fanchbrezoneg]

1894 Thomas Edison's kinetoscope, but not cinematographe 1895 by .Louis and Auguste Lumiere. It-s very different.

[Turbo852]

Wow, that is really old footage!

Very nice!

[moonsyne]

That was adorable.