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Film, Video Band drill

Digital viewing copy

About this Item

Title

  • Band drill

Summary

  • "From "Milk White Flag." Marching band with leader at the head"--Maguire & Baucus catalogue.

Names

  • Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie), 1860-1935, production
  • Heise, William, camera
  • Hoyt, Charles H. (Charles Hale), 1859-1900
  • Thomas A. Edison, Inc

Created / Published

  • United States : Edison Manufacturing Co., [1894]

Headings

  • -  Marching bands--United States
  • -  Marching drills--United States

Genre

  • Filmed performances
  • Silent films
  • Short films
  • Nonfiction films

Notes

  • -  Duration: 0:20 at 30 fps.
  • -  Sources used: Musser, C. Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, p. 159-60; Maguire & Baucus. Edison and international photographic films catalogue, April 1897, p. 3 [MI]; Edison: The invention of the movies (disc 1 film notes by Charles Musser) viewed online November 4, 2020 at the Kino Lorber WWW site; Internet movie database, November 4, 2020.
  • -  Camera, William Heise.
  • -  Appearing: Frank Baldwin (Steele Ayers, the bandmaster), Fred W. Boardman, William Cushing, Ad. Dorsch, E.P. Brown, J.F. Boardman, George Goddard, E.F. Balch, Paul Pfarr.
  • -  Filmed in late November 1894, in Edison's Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
  • -  According to Edison film historian C. Musser, this film featured the cast of Charles Hoyt's musical burlesque, "A milk white flag," which mocked the state militias that savored their snappy uniforms and male camaraderie. Sometime after the farce's New York premiere on Oct. 8, 1894, the cast traveled to the Edison studio and appeared in at least five films.
  • -  35 mm viewing print renumbered: FEC 8082 to FYA 1238.

Medium

  • viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (36 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • FYA 1238 (viewing print)

Source Collection

  • Hendricks (Gordon) Collection (Library of Congress)

Repository

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

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 00694111

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Chicago citation style:

Heise, William, Camera, Charles H Hoyt, and Inc Thomas A. Edison. Band Drill. produceds by Dickson, W. K.-L. , Uction [United States: Edison Manufacturing Co, 1894] Video. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/00694111/.

APA citation style:

Heise, W., Hoyt, C. H. & Thomas A. Edison, I. (1894) Band Drill. Dickson, W. K. -., prod [United States: Edison Manufacturing Co] [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/00694111/.

MLA citation style:

Heise, William, Camera, Charles H Hoyt, and Inc Thomas A. Edison. Band Drill. prod by Dickson, W. K.-L. , Uction [United States: Edison Manufacturing Co, 1894] Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/00694111/>.