Film, Video The diving horse Diving horses / Unidentified Masson.
About this Item
- Title
- The diving horse
- Other Title
- Diving horses
- Unidentified Masson.
- Summary
- Performance of a horse diving from a tower 40 feet high into the water at the Shoot the Chutes pond at Coney Island, New York. The horse leaps into the water, is led out by a man and repeats the trick.
- Contributor Names
- Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
- Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- AFI/Masson (Daniel J.) Collection (Library of Congress)
- Created / Published
- United States : Thomas A. Edison, Inc., 1899.
- Subject Headings
- - Horses
- - Amusement parks--New York (State)
- - Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
- Genre
- Actualities (Motion pictures)
- Silent films
- Short films
- Nonfiction films
- Notes
- - 61839 U.S. Copyright Office
- - Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 23Sept1899; 61839.
- - Title listed as Diving horses in Edison films catalog, to July 1, 1904 [MI], p. 41.
- - On 35 mm. viewing print and dupe neg pic: main title, credits and end title lacking.
- - Summary adapted from Edison films, March 1900, complete catalogue [MI], p. 44.
- - Formerly listed in M/B/RS nitrate data base (NTS) under title: Unidentified Masson. No07.
- - On 35 mm. viewing print and dupe neg pic with: A day at the circus series; [The Devonshire fair?]; Perroquets savants; Clown Sidney on stilts ("Sidney" le clown aux échasses); Trick donkey. No. 2; the parts of A day at the circus series are interspersed throughout the reel with the other films.
- - Location: Shoot the Chutes Pond, Coney Island, New York.
- - Paper print shelf number (LC 1568) was changed when paper prints were rehoused.
- - Sources used: Edison films, March 1900, complete catalogue [MI], p. 44; The AFI catalog : film beginnings, 1893-1910, pt. [1], p. 271; Niver, K.R. Early motion pictures, p. 79.
- - Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
- Medium
- 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 1 min., 56 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. viewing print.
- 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 1 min., 100 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. viewing print.
- 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 1 min., 56 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. dupe neg pic.
- 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 1 min., 100 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. dupe neg pic.
- 1 roll (ca. 100 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm. paper pos.
- 1 roll (ca. 100 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm. paper pos (copy 2)
- Call Number/Physical Location
- FLA 4582 (viewing print)
- FEB 6878 (viewing print)
- FRA 1615 (dupe neg pic)
- FPE 1234 (dupe neg pic)
- Box 0020C (paper pos)
- Box 5022C (paper pos, copy 2)
- Digital Id
- https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/ntscrm.00047244
- Library of Congress Control Number
- 95507711
- Online Format
- image
- video
- LCCN Permalink
- https://lccn.loc.gov/95507711
- Additional Metadata Formats
- MARCXML Record
- MODS Record
- Dublin Core Record
Format
Contributors
- Afi/Masson (Daniel J.) Collection (Library of Congress)
- Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Thomas A. Edison, Inc
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Thomas A. Edison, Inc, Paper Print Collection, and Afi/Masson. The Diving Horse. United States: Thomas A. Edison, Inc, 1899. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/95507711/.
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Thomas A. Edison, I., Paper Print Collection & Afi/Masson. (1899) The Diving Horse. United States: Thomas A. Edison, Inc. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/95507711/.
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Thomas A. Edison, Inc, Paper Print Collection, and Afi/Masson. The Diving Horse. United States: Thomas A. Edison, Inc, 1899. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/95507711/>.
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