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Blacksmith Scene
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Blacksmithing Scene is a 1893 film produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company in the United States of America. The work was directed by William K.L. Dickson. It was released on May 8, 1893, and has a runtime of 1 minute.
The film features keywords including blacksmith, beer, and workmen. It holds a vote average of 5.6. The production status is listed as Released.
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Film · TMDB
5.6Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around. Notable for being the first film in which a scene is being acted out.
Cast
- Charles Kayser as Blacksmith
- John Ott as Blacksmith
Themes
- blacksmith
- beer
- workmen
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Key facts
- Directed by
- William K.L. Dickson
- Starring
- Charles Kayser, John Ott
- Cinematography
- William Heise
- Distributed by
- Edison Manufacturing Company
- Release date
- May 9, 1893 ( 1893-05-09 )
- Running time
- 34 seconds
- Country
- United States
- Language
- Silent
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- short film
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Genre
- silent film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Director
- William Kennedy Dickson
- Production company
- Edison Studios
- Cinematographer
- William Heise
- Duration
- 1
- FilmAffinity ID
- 942939
- Image
- BlacksmithScene.jpg
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- distributed by
- Edison Manufacturing Company
- publication date
- 1893-00-00
- Commons category
- Blacksmith Scene
- title
- Blacksmith Scene
- aspect ratio (W:H)
- 4:3
- color
- black-and-white
- copyright status
- public domain
- assessment
- Bechdel test
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Encyclopedic overview
Blacksmith Scene (1893)
Blacksmith Scene (also known as Blacksmith Scene #1 and Blacksmithing Scene) is an 1893 American short black-and-white silent film directed by William K.L. Dickson, the Scottish-French inventor who, while under the employ of Thomas Edison, developed one of the first fully functional motion picture cameras. It is historically significant as the first Kinetoscope film shown in public exhibition on May 9, 1893, and is the earliest known example of actors performing a role in a film. It was also the first U.S. motion picture film ever copyrighted that same year. 102 years later, in 1995, Blacksmithing Scene was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". It is the second-oldest film included in the Registry, after Newark Athlete (1891).
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