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Chicken Thieves

Item number (ISN):

15881

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1897

Item number (ISN):

15881

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Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

FLAHERTY BROTHERS

Accession:

1982-0026

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1897

Production company:

Edison Manufacturing Company

Description:

Staged film of two young blacks stealing chicken from a barn and then being pursued by white farmers armed with a scythe and a rifle. The rifle-owner shoots at one of the thieves, but he escapes unharmed. <27s>

Language:

Silent

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1. The running time is calculated at 36 fps.~2. Copyright 5 June 1897; 34231; 34232.~3. For a compilation of early films from the Flaherty Brothers collection see [FLAHERTY BROTHERS EARLY FILM PROGRAM] (ISN 323567).~4. Silent without intertitles.
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8309-0055
V1 2000-06-0009

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

copyright expired : with permission of donor

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