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  J. Stuart Blackton.
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Edison Drawn
by “World” Artist

Also known as Blackton Sketches, No. 1, Blackton, the Evening World Cartoonist, Blackton Sketching Edison and Inventor Edison Sketched by World Artist in the USA : [T.A. Edison Drawn by Blackton, N.Y. World Cartoonist], [T.A. Edison: Drawing from N.Y. World by Cartoonist Blackton]
(1896) United States of America
B&W : 150 feet
Directed by [?] William Heise and/or James H. White?

Cast: J. Stuart Blackton [himself].

Edison Manufacturing Company production; distributed by [?] Raff & Gammon? / Cinematography by [?] William Heise and/or James H. White? / [?] Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format or Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format? / [?] The production is thought to have been shot on the rooftop at Raff & Gammon’s offices on West 28th Street in New York, New York, in either July or August 1896.

Performance: Sketching.

Survival status: Print exists in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain.

Listing updated: 17 February 2009.

References: Leyda-Before pp. 10, 80, 96; Magliozzi-Treasures n. 3663; Musser-Emerge pp. 120, 121, 598, 601; Ramsaye-Million p. 275; Shipman-Cinema p. 16.

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