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Digital History Theater
All motion pictures on the WYSHS.org web site require special viewers. Currently, films are presented in three formats, QuickTime, .mpg (Motion Pictures Experts Group or MPEG), and .rm (Real Media). For detailed playback information, see our Additional Playback Information.

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Lee Martin, a Genuine Cowboy on a Bucking Bronco, 1894

RealMedia format - for 28.8K + connection

MPEG format - 3 megabytes

QuickTime format - 1 megabyte

Summary:
From Raff & Gammon price list: An out-of-door scene. The men and horse of this subject are from "Buffalo Bill's Wild West." $15.00.

From Maguire & Baucus catalogue: A cowboy riding an unruly "bronco."

From Edison films catalog: A fine exhibition of horsemanship by Lee Martin, a genuine cowboy. This particular broncho is an unusually wicked one. 40 feet. $6.00.

Notes:
Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; producer, W.K.L. Dickson
United States: Edison Manufacturing Co., [1894].
Copyright: no reg.
Performers: Lee Martin, Frank Hammitt.
Camera: William Heise.
Duration: 0:21 at 30 fps.
Filmed October 16, 1894, at the Edison Laboratory in West Orange, N.J.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Musser, C. Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, 1997, p. 140-41; Raff & Gammon. Price list of films, ca. June 1895, p. 1 [MI]; Maguire & Baucus. Edison and international photographic films catalogue, April 1897, p. 3 [MI]; Edison films catalog, no. 105, July 1901, p. 49 [MI].
Medium: 1 reel of 1 (39 ft) : si., b&w ; 35mm ref print.
Call Number: no shelf no.
Repository: Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D. C. 20540 USA
Digital ID: edmp 4029

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