Newark Athlete

SUMMARY
Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film. This is the "reanimated" version of the fragment by Gordon Hendricks.

OTHER TITLES
Variant title in C. Musser: Club swinger. No. 1

Variant title in C. Musser: Indian club swinger

CREATED/PUBLISHED
[1891]

NOTES
Copyright: no reg.

Camera, W.K.L. Dickson and William Heise.

Filmed ca. May to June 1891, in the Photographic Building at the Edison Laboratory, West Orange, New Jersey.

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

SUBJECTS
Cinematography--United States--Experiments.
Athletes--United States.
Athletics--United States.
Gymnastics--United States.
Sports (Nonfiction)

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

DIGITAL ID
edmp.4016 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/edmp.4016

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Library
• congress
• Edison
• Silent
• Cinematography
• Athletics
• Gymnastics
• Sports