Title Annual parade, New York Fire Department
Creator Porter, Edwin S., camera. Thomas A. Edison, Inc
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Date Issued 1904
Collection Edison Motion Pictures
Abstract Dignitaries are shown as they alight from a horse-drawn brougham and enter the speaker's bleachers. Next, personnel of the New York Fire Department walk by the camera. One of every piece of fire-fighting equipment then used by the department passes.
Subject n-us-ny Parades
Fire departments
Publisher United States; Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Publication monographic
Genre motion picture; Actuality-Shorts.
Identifier 00563584, hdl:loc.mbrsmi/awal.1945
Location Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Note Thomas A. Edison, Inc. Copyright: Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; 17May04; H46128.
Cameraman credit from Niver's, Early motion pictures, p. 9.
Duration: 4:43 at 16 fps.
Source used: Niver, Kemp R., Early motion pictures, 1985.
Filmed May 14, 1904 in New York City.
Cameraman, Edwin S. Porter.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
Received: ca. 1991 from LC lab; ref prints and dupe neg; preservation; Paper Print Collection.
Physical Description 1 reel of 1 (115 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.; 1 reel of 1 (270 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.; 1 reel of 1 (115 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
Classification FLA 4959 (ref print), FEC 1607 (ref print), FRA 0075 (dupe neg)
Resource Type moving image
URL http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/awal.1945 Externallink
Related Item oai:dlfcollectionsregistry.grainger.uiuc.edu:635