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Admiral Dewey Leading Land Parade
(1899) United States of America
B&W : 200 feet
Directed by James H. White

Cast: Admiral George Dewey [himself], Robert Anderson Van Wyck [himself], Nelson Appleton Miles [himself], Admiral William Thomas Sampson [himself], Winfield Scott Schley [himself]

Edison Manufacturing Company production; distributed by Edison Manufacturing Company. / Cinematography by [?] James H. White? / © 5 October 1899 by Thomas A. Edison [64681]. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot on 30 September 1899 in New York, New York. Edison telegraphic orders code names: Uncapital (100 ft.), Uncaptious (200 ft.). Musser control number 741.

Documentary.

Synopsis: [Edison Films catalog, March 1900, page 7] On Riverside Drive; showing Naval Brigade of North Atlantic Fleet, followed by Schley, Sampson, Miles and other celebrities. The Admiral is in the carriage with Mayor Van Wyck. // [Edison Manufacturing Company catalog, number 94, page ?] We equipped eight parties on the occasion of Admiral Dewey's arrival in New York Harbor, Wednesday, September 27th, 1899, and secured the following excellent moving pictures of the Admiral and his great ship, together with the stirring events of Dewey Day, September 29th, the day of the Naval Parade, and Dewey Day, September 30th, the day of the Land Parade. Ours was the only photographic apparatus on board the U.S. Cruiser Olympia on this memorable occasion. The Admiral posed especially for our camera.

Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive (paper print collection) [35mm paper positive (LC 1448), 35mm reference positive (FLA 5965), 16mm duplicate reduction negative (FRA 0013), 16mm reference reduction positive (FLA 4462)].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Parades - History: USA: Spanish-American War (1898) - USA: New York: New York: Riverside Drive

Listing updated: 18 May 2012.

References: LoC-MoPic-1 p. 1; Musser-Edison pp. 544-545; Niver-Early p. 2 : Website-LoC.

 
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