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An athlete swings Indian clubs.An athlete swings Indian clubs.An athlete swings Indian clubs.
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- TriviaChosen by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry (2010). It holds the distinction of being the oldest film chosen to be in the Registry.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Edison: The Invention of the Movies (2005)
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A Simple But Successful Experiment
This ultra-short feature is one of a small number of surviving experiments made by the Edison Company in the same year as the well-known "Dickson Greeting" film. As such, it is simple but successful, accomplishing its goal of capturing the motions of its subject while also providing a clear image of him.
The footage simply shows one athlete or gymnast who makes a movement with a pair of clubs. The movie succeeds in photographing the subject in some detail, and in capturing the motion smoothly. The motion is equally clear at each of the speeds in the preserved footage. These are simple goals, to be sure, but they are basic foundations of cinema, and they had to be met before the new invention could be used for more complex and interesting movies.
In 1894, when the Edison Company was expanding its film production for commercial use in their Kinetoscopes, a similar camera test was done with the newer equipment then in use. That film, "Athlete With Wand", served a similar purpose, and it is of interest in comparison with this one.
The footage simply shows one athlete or gymnast who makes a movement with a pair of clubs. The movie succeeds in photographing the subject in some detail, and in capturing the motion smoothly. The motion is equally clear at each of the speeds in the preserved footage. These are simple goals, to be sure, but they are basic foundations of cinema, and they had to be met before the new invention could be used for more complex and interesting movies.
In 1894, when the Edison Company was expanding its film production for commercial use in their Kinetoscopes, a similar camera test was done with the newer equipment then in use. That film, "Athlete With Wand", served a similar purpose, and it is of interest in comparison with this one.
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- Jan 13, 2006
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