Film, Video Caicedo (with pole) Caicedo / Caicedo.

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Title
Caicedo (with pole)
Other Title
Caicedo
Caicedo.
Summary
From Raff & Gammon price list: The "King of the Wire" in his marvelous slack wire performance. $10.00.
Contributor Names
Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie), 1860-1935, production.
Heise, William, camera.
Caicedo, Juan A., performer.
Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Hendricks (Gordon) Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
United States : Edison Manufacturing Co., [1894]
Subject Headings
-  Aerialists--United States
-  Vaudeville--United States
-  Wire rope--United States
-  Venezuelans--United States
Genre
Variety
Notes
-  Copyright: no reg.
-  Performer: Juan A. Caicedo.
-  Camera, William Heise.
-  Duration: 0:19 at 30 fps.
-  According to Edison film historian C. Musser, Venezuelan rope and slack wire walker Juan Caicedo performed in the U.S. during 1894 and again at the end of the century. From May 14 to Sept. 8, 1894, he appeared at Koster & Bial's Music Hall in New York City.
-  MAVIS 180325.
-  Filmed July 25, 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. 108; Raff & Gammon. Price list of films, ca. June 1895, p. 1 [MI].
-  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
-  Received: 5-13-1994; viewing print; preservation; Hendricks (Gordon) Collection.
Medium
1 film reel of 1 (ca. 1 min., 37 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. viewing print.
Call Number/Physical Location
FEC 8115 (viewing print)
Repository
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D. C. 20540 USA dcu
Digital Id
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/edmp.4021
Library of Congress Control Number
00694115
Online Format
image
video
Description
From Raff & Gammon price list: The "King of the Wire" in his marvelous slack wire performance. $10.00.
LCCN Permalink
https://lccn.loc.gov/00694115
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Heise, William, Camera, Inc Thomas A. Edison, and Hendricks. Caicedo With Pole. [United States: Edison Manufacturing Co, 1894] Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/00694115/. (Accessed August 19, 2017.)

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Heise, W., Thomas A. Edison, I. & Hendricks. (1894) Caicedo With Pole. [United States: Edison Manufacturing Co] [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/00694115/.

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Heise, William, Camera, Inc Thomas A. Edison, and Hendricks. Caicedo With Pole. [United States: Edison Manufacturing Co, 1894] Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <https://www.loc.gov/item/00694115/>.