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Film, Video 71st Regiment, Camp Wyckoff Seventy-first Regiment, Camp Wyckoff / 71st Regiment, N.G.S.N.Y., at Camp Wikoff / Seventy-first Regiment, N.G., S.N.Y. / Seventy-first Regiment, N.Y.V. at Camp Wikoff

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Title

  • 71st Regiment, Camp Wyckoff

Other Title

  • Seventy-first Regiment, Camp Wyckoff
  • 71st Regiment, N.G.S.N.Y., at Camp Wikoff
  • Seventy-first Regiment, N.G., S.N.Y.
  • Seventy-first Regiment, N.Y.V. at Camp Wikoff

Summary

  • "Of the thousand and more men who left New York for the Cuban Campaign, scarcely three hundred were able to shoulder their rifles to march before the Biograph camera at Camp Wikoff. The picture shows many of the companies reduced to seven or eight men, and the whole regiment, rank and file is in a sad condition. The picture is remarkably fine in every respect"--American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalogue.

Names

  • Armitage, F. S., camera.
  • American Mutoscope Company.
  • American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
  • Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • United States : American Mutoscope Company, [1898]

Headings

  • -  New York (State).--Militia.--Regiment, 71st
  • -  Camp Wikoff (N.Y.)
  • -  Military camps--New York (State)--Montauk Point
  • -  Soldiers--New York (State)--Montauk Point
  • -  Spanish-American War, 1898

Genre

  • Actualities (Motion pictures)
  • Silent films
  • Short films
  • Nonfiction films

Notes

  • -  H16645 U.S. Copyright Office
  • -  Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 16Apr1902; H16645.
  • -  Original main title lacking.
  • -  Camera, F.S. Armitage.
  • -  Duration: 0:50 at 18 fps.
  • -  Probably filmed in September, 1898 in Camp Wikoff at Montauk Point, Long Island, New York.
  • -  Biograph production no. 774.
  • -  Paper print shelf number (LC 1854) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
  • -  Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
  • -  Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 294; American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalogue, Nov. 1902, p. 170 [MI]; Biograph bulletins 1896-1908, p. 66; Biograph production logs; AFI catalog, film beginnings, 1893-1910, p. 966; Biograph photo catalog, v. 2 viewed online via the New Jersey Digital Highway, October 1, 2018.
  • -  Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.

Medium

  • viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (29 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
  • dupe neg pic 1 film reel of 1 (29 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
  • master pos pic 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 30 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
  • paper pos 1 roll of 1 (ca. 55 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm.
  • paper pos (copy 2) 1 roll of 1 (ca. 55 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • FLA 4868 (viewing print)
  • FRA 1875 (dupe neg pic)
  • FRB 1653 (master pos pic)
  • Box 0340A (paper pos)
  • Box 5207E (paper pos, copy 2)

Source Collection

  • Niver (Kemp) 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

  • 98500537

Online Format

  • image
  • video

Additional Metadata Formats

Rights & Access

Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress

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U.S. Troops Landing at Daiquirí, Cuba; Troops Making Military Road in Front of Santiago; Pack Mules with Ammunition on the Santiago Trail, Cuba; and 25th Infantry are reproduced here courtesy of the Theodore Roosevelt Association.

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Chicago citation style:

Armitage, F. S., Camera, American Mutoscope Company, American Mutoscope And Biograph Company, and Paper Print Collection. 71st Regiment, Camp Wyckoff. [United States: American Mutoscope Company, 1898] Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/98500537/.

APA citation style:

Armitage, F. S., American Mutoscope Company, American Mutoscope And Biograph Company & Paper Print Collection. (1898) 71st Regiment, Camp Wyckoff. [United States: American Mutoscope Company] [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/98500537/.

MLA citation style:

Armitage, F. S., Camera, et al. 71st Regiment, Camp Wyckoff. [United States: American Mutoscope Company, 1898] Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/98500537/>.