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The Martyred Presidents is a american film of genre Documentary directed by Edwin S. Porter released in USA on 19 october 1901
The Martyred Presidents (1901)
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The film, just over a minute long, is composed of two shots. In the first, a girl sits at the base of an altar or tomb, her face hidden from the camera. At the center of the altar, a viewing portal displays the portraits of three U.S. Presidents—Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, and William McKinley—each victims of assassination.Comments
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Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
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Electrocuting an Elephant (1903)
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Origin USA
Genres Documentary
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This film documents the publicly announced January 4, 1903 killing of Topsy the elephant at the (still under construction) Luna Park on Coney island. The elephant had recently been acquired from Forepaugh Circus where she had a reputation as a "bad" elephant, having killed a drunken spectator the previous year who burnt the tip of her trunk with a lit cigar. After several incidents at Luna Park (sometimes attributed to the actions of her drunken handler, William "Whitey" Alt) the owners of Luna Park, Frederick Thompson and Elmer Dundy, claimed they could no longer handle the elephant and announced they would hang Topsy in a public spectacle and charge admission. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals stepped in, questioning the idea of hanging an elephant as well as making a public spectacle out of the death of an animal. Thompson and Dundy cut the event back to invited guest and press only and agreed to use a more sure method of strangling the elephant with large ropes tied to a steam powered winch. They also agreed they would use poison and electricity as well.
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Directed by Edwin S. Porter
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Genres Documentary
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, 1minutesDirected by Edwin S. Porter
Genres Biography, Comedy, Documentary
Themes Political films
Rating40%
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Babies Rolling Eggs (1902)
, 1minutesDirected by Edwin S. Porter
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Rating44%
Des petits enfants dans des vêtements d'hiver font face à la caméra dans un demi-cercle. Ils font rouler des œufs, en bas de la pente, vers la caméra.
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
, 11minutesDirected by Edwin S. Porter, Wallace McCutcheon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Historical, Crime, Western
Themes Films about terrorism, Transport films, Rail transport films, Films based on plays, Heist films, Films about hijackings
Actors Alfred C. Abadie, Gilbert M. Anderson, J. Barney Sherry, Justus D. Barnes, George Barnes, Morgan Jones
Rating72%
The film opens with two bandits breaking into a railroad telegraph office, where they force the operator at gunpoint to have a train stopped and to transmit orders for the engineer orders to fill the locomotive's tender at the station's water tank. They then knock operator out and tie him up. As the train stops it is boarded by the bandits—now four. Two bandits enter an express car, kill a messenger and open a box of valuables with dynamite; the others kill the fireman and force the engineer to halt the train and disconnect the locomotive. The bandits then force the passengers off the train and rifle them for their belongings. One passenger tries to escape, but is instantly shot down. Carrying their loot, the bandits escape in the locomotive, later stopping in a valley where their horses had been left.