Lecture 35 Wednesday April 20, 2005

What Else Was Happening in the Progressive Era, conclusion: film

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Announcements:

(1)           No announcements today, no handouts

 

 

Conclusion to Edison films and the history of film:

SHOW BRIEFLY THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY and WATERFALL FILMS, ETC.

 

Sioux Buffalo Dance, 1894 (see also Sioux Ghost Dance, 1894)

American Falls 1896

Lower Falls of the Yellowstone, 1899

Passaic Falls, 1896

Falls of Minnehaha, 1897, see also Waterfall in the Catskills, 1897

The Great Train Robbery, 1903

A Romance of the Rail, 1903

Galveston Cyclone 1: Searching Ruins on Broadway, Galveston, for Dead Bodies, 1900

Galveston Cyclone 2: Panorama of Wreckage of Waterfront, 1900

R.F.D., 10,000 B.C.: A Mannikin Comedy, 1917

 

Also Seminary Girls, Pillow Fight, etc., all available through the Library of Congress