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Film, Video Roosevelt's Rough Riders Shooting title in Biograph production log: Roosevelt's Rough Riders at drill

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Title

  • Roosevelt's Rough Riders

Other Title

  • Shooting title in Biograph production log: Roosevelt's Rough Riders at drill

Summary

  • "A charge full of cowboy enthusiasm by Troop "I," the famous regiment, at Tampa, before its departure for the front"--American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalogue.

Names

  • American Mutoscope Company
  • American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
  • Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
  • Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • United States : American Mutoscope Company, [1898]

Headings

  • -  Roosevelt, Theodore,--1858-1919
  • -  United States.--Army.--Volunteer Cavalry, 1st
  • -  Cavalry drill and tactics
  • -  Cavalry horses--Florida--Tampa
  • -  Spanish-American War, 1898

Genre

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

Notes

  • -  H32832 U.S. Copyright Office
  • -  Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 18June1903; H32832.
  • -  Original main title lacking.
  • -  Probable release date from AFI catatalog: film beginnings, 1893-1910.
  • -  Duration: 0:25 at 16 fps.
  • -  According to the New York times, June 3, 1898, Roosevelt and the Rough Riders reached Tampa, Florida on June 2, 1898. According to LC's Chronology of Cuba online, the Rough Riders sailed from Tampa to Santiago de Cuba on June 13, 1898.
  • -  Biograph production no. 642.
  • -  Paper print shelf number (LC 0318) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
  • -  Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
  • -  Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 278; American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalogue, Nov. 1902, p. 167 [MI]; Biograph photo catalog, v. 2 [MI]; Biograph production logs; AFI catalog: film beginnings, 1893-1910, p. 918; New York times, June 3, 1898, p. 2; Library of Congress WWW site, Chronology of Cuba in the Spanish American War, viewed February 6, 2017.
  • -  Filmed in Tampa, Florida, probably between June 2 and June 13, 1898.
  • -  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 (14 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
  • viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 30 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.
  • dupe neg pic 1 film reel of 1 (14 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
  • dupe neg pic 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 30 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.
  • master pos pic 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 15 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
  • paper pos 1 roll of 1 (ca. 30 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm.
  • paper pos (copy 2) 1 roll of 1 (ca. 30 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • FLA 3332 (viewing print)
  • FEC 2888 (viewing print)
  • FRA 0643 (dupe neg pic)
  • FPE 9287 (dupe neg pic)
  • FRB 1628 (master pos pic)
  • Box 0831F (paper pos)
  • Box 5412E (paper pos)

Repository

  • Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 98500909

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Chicago citation style:

American Mutoscope Company, American Mutoscope And Biograph Company, Paper Print Collection, and Niver. Roosevelt's Rough Riders. [United States: American Mutoscope Company, 1898] Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/98500909/.

APA citation style:

American Mutoscope Company, American Mutoscope And Biograph Company, Paper Print Collection & Niver. (1898) Roosevelt's Rough Riders. [United States: American Mutoscope Company] [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/98500909/.

MLA citation style:

American Mutoscope Company, et al. Roosevelt's Rough Riders. [United States: American Mutoscope Company, 1898] Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/98500909/>.