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US NAVY PRESENTS : ORIGINS OF THE MOTION PICTURE

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Inventory ID 594957
Production Type EDUCATIONAL^SHORT
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Donor Code 2853 - Packard Humanities Institute: Sabucat Collection
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Format Size 16
Format Type SAFETY
Element Info PRINT
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Color Format B&W
Sound Format OPT^SD.^^^^
Item Holdings 1
Total Reels 1

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pallet 44- 20, 741 - United States Navy Presents "Origins of the Motion Picture"^^Produced in collaboration with ^Library of Congress^Smithsonian Institute^National Archives^Thomas Alva Edison Foundation^George Eastman House of Photography^^Footage of Great White Fleet U.S. Navy sailing in the Ocean.^^President Roosevelt comes aboard a ship.^^Roosevelt in stand with a flag underneath him. ^^Roosevelt watching a parade and clapping.^^1903 Footage First race for Vanderbilt Cup, cars racing down dirt road, crowds watching.^^Athanasii Kircheri "Ars Magna Lucis Et Umbra" book shown, illustrations from book of early film devices.^^"Thaumatrope" shown with bird and cage on each side.^^Spinning disk/Shutter image^^Woman with a Phenakistiscope.^^Artist drawing on a Zoetrope then spinning it showing a moving image.^^Praxinoscope shown.^^Muybridge moving horses.^^Photo stills of Thomas Edison.^^Cylinder shown of Edisons invention.^^Footage of George Eastman.^^Edison's Kinetograph shown and operating.^^1889 motion picture of a boy twirling around paddles.^^Photos stills of Edison theatre and a model of the theatre.^^One of the first sound motion pictures, Man playing a violin and 2 men dancing together.^^Kinetoscope shown.^^Film loops turning.^^1st Copyrighted Motion Picture, A Man Sneezing. Edison copyright letter on his motion picture shown dated Jan. 9, 1894.^^Vitascope Shown.^^Jenkins? Camera Shown^^Madison's? Camera Shown and glass plates^^Chicago Recording Sale Company Camera.^^Lumiere Cimematography Projector^^Gomat camera Projector.^^American Mutagraph Camera shown operating.^^1897 Motion Picture of Pope Leo the 13th in Rome shown on a mutagraph.^^Marines USS Brooklyn returning from war footage^^American Troops landing in Cuba footage.^^1897 Gatlin Gun men firing procedure footage.^^Americas 1903 USS Holland and men on top of Submarine footage.^^^^^^

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Reel # Barcode Can Size Reel Size Location Notes
SV0001330158 S217-05A-06