Add to ORKGThe film, photographed from a single-camera position, shows people walking on the midway at the Charleston Exposition. Very few objects are discernible because of the distance.Copyright: Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; 18Apr02; H16713.Duration: 0:21 at 16 fps.Filmed April 1902 in Charleston, SC.Source used: Niver, Kemp R., Early motion pictures, 1985.Received: ca. 1991 from LC lab; ref print and dupe neg; preservation; Paper Print Collection
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This picture shows thousands of people leaving their seats in the grand stand and going across the p...
The film begins with a slow pan over the tower building of the exposition, which was lighted by elec...
The camera was placed in almost the center of the compound area by the exhibit buildings, and the ca...
From Edison films catalog: This picture was taken from the stationary platform, showing the rapidly ...
"The camera is stationed on the middle walk of the Platform Mobile, as the French call it, and gives...
The camera pans around the Exposition grounds, providing views of the Champs-de-Mars, including a cl...
"Near the main entrance. Hundreds of carriages and characteristic Parisian buses are passing. 75 fee...
Apparently, the film was photographed from a compound bordered by high walls and buildings. At a dis...
From Edison films catalog: Taken from an automobile. This picture was taken during the fashionable d...
The film begins with a wide shot of an area crowded with people, some riding elephants, others march...
The film begins from a single-camera position high above the Exposition grounds. The camera begins t...
"Beginning with the camera pointing toward the Invalides entrance, with the tomb of Napoleon in the ...
"American infantry troops dressed in field uniforms of the Spanish-American War can be seen close to...
The principal buildings surrounding the square at the St. Louis Exposition are shown in a nearly 360...
"A wide plain, dotted with tents, gleaming white in the bright sunshine. Soldiers moving about every...
This picture shows thousands of people leaving their seats in the grand stand and going across the p...
The film begins with a slow pan over the tower building of the exposition, which was lighted by elec...