This may have been the first death ever captured on film.
On July 20, 2003, a memorial for Topsy was erected at the Coney Island Museum.
The event was originally witnessed by an estimated 1,500 people.
This was actually director Edwin S. Porter's second film about electrocution, following the staged Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison (1901). He was an electrician before entering the movie business.