Snake Catching Contest January, 1914 Brownsville, TX 0:00 Mid-Winter Fair in Brownsville, Texas. Contest was to bag ten snakes in shortest time. Note silver trophy at right center. Held at Ft. Brown, near barracks building. At left is W.A. 'Snake King and Mrs. King. This short 35 mm silent film taken photographed frame by frame. This is a very small fraction of the entire roll of fillm. Filmed by Adolf Dittmann, who opened the first theater for sound motion pictures in Brownsville, TX (1910).
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