Shooting the chutes / motion picture

Shooting the chutes / motion picture

description

Summary

"A lively scene on the famous water chutes at Coney Island"--Maguire & Baucus catalogue.
Copyright: no reg.
Camera, William Heise.
Duration: 0:23 at 30 fps.
Filmed June 18-23, 1896, at Bergen Beach, Coney Island, New York.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
Sources used: Musser, C. Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, p. 212; Maguire & Baucus. Edison and international photographic films catalogue, April 1897, p. 15 [MI].
35 mm viewing print renumbered: FEC 8078 to FYA 1277.

date_range

Date

01/01/1896
person

Contributors

White, James H. (James Henry), production.
Heise, William, camera.
Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Hendricks (Gordon) Collection (Library of Congress)
place

Location

create

Source

Library of Congress
copyright

Copyright info

Public Domain

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